conclusions following a simple seven-part rule of healthy stomach will result in balanced gi function and a healthy body. properly consumption of recommended tpm herbal medicines could reinforce the stomach and a healthy gi system through preventive mechanisms. evidence acquisition a wide-ranging search in main tpm books and web engines was performed to compare preventive care in gastrointestin...

background: to determine the effects of probiotic yogurt on performance and health status of young adult female endurance swimmers.   methods: in a randomized controlled trial, 46 endurance swimmers girls with mean age of 13.8 ±1.8 years, weight of 48.6±7.5kg and height of 159±5.6cm, were studied. subjects were randomly assigned into two groups, receiving either 400 ml probiotic yogurt (interve...

Digestive tract motility patterns are closely related to the pathophysiology of functional gastrointestinal diseases (FGID), and these patterns differ markedly between the interdigestive period and the postprandial period. The characteristic motility pattern in the interdigestive period is so-called interdigestive migrating contraction (IMC). IMCs have a housekeeping role in the intestinal trac...