Black Licorice's Hidden Superpower: Calming the Gut For…

Black Licorice's Hidden Superpower: Calming the Gut For the 4 million people worldwide living with inflammatory bowel disease, the search for a treatment that actually works is often exhausting, cycles of medications, flares, side effects, and disappointment. New research now points to an unlikely candidate hiding in plain sight: black licorice. Published in Stem Cell Reports, the research was conducted using a stem cell-based model of the human intestine created by a team at the University of Tokyo. Scientists screened roughly 3,500 compounds to find substances that could protect intestinal cells from IBD-like inflammatory damage. A