Does yellow dragon fruit cause diarrhea?
Yellow dragon fruit has become a hot-button topic on TikTok. I offer some scientific insight to explain its reported laxative effects.
Yesterday in class, a student asked me, “Is yellow dragon fruit a laxative?” The question itself wasn’t that unusual. We’d just wrapped up our lesson on the GI tract last week, and I even wrote about stimulant and bulk-forming laxatives in a recent issue of this newsletter. The stim…
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