intestines
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It is a hormone your intestines release after every meal, a chemical signal between your gut and your brain that says Slow down, you’ve had enough.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026
Building on these findings, the research team turned to a class of drugs known as liver X receptor agonists, which increase HDL production in the liver and intestines.
From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026
The number of nerve cells in the colon also rose, and the time it took for food to move through the intestines returned to normal.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
The microbiome refers to the community of bacteria that naturally live in the intestines.
From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026
It was hard to imagine that the delicious sausages I’d had just the day before were encased in the small intestines of a pig.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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