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Featured Studies

📉Foods, drinks and diets and their effect on chronic constipation in adults: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37905980/

📉The Effect of Fiber Supplementation on Chronic Constipation in Adults: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35816465/

📉Exercise therapy in patients with constipation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30843436/

📉Probiotics for Preventing and Treating Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28267052/

📉Efficacy in bowel movement and change of gut microbiota on adult functional constipation patients treated with probiotics-containing products: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38238054/

📉Spore-forming Bacillus coagulans SNZ 1969 improved intestinal motility and constipation perception mediated by microbial alterations in healthy adults with mild intermittent constipation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34119240/

📉Bacillus coagulans Unique IS2 in Constipation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30911991/

📉Saccharomyces cerevisiae I-3856 in IBS with predominant constipation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35979259/

📉Herbal therapy is equivalent to rifaximin for the treatment of SIBO: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24891990/

📉Use of Prucalopride for Chronic Constipation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27127190/

📉Analysis of the efficacy of abdominal massage on functional constipation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37496907/

📉Biofeedback therapy for constipation in adults: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21382587/

📉Early adverse life events and post-traumatic stress disorder in patients with constipation and suspected disordered defecation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34121276/

📉Emotional stress responsivity of patients with IBS - a systematic review: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34942583/

📉Stress-induced changes in the gastrointestinal motor system: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10202205/

📉Stress and the gut: pathophysiology, clinical consequences, diagnostic approach and treatment options: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22314561/

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