You may think of your belly button as just a scar from your umbilical cord, but it's actually a bustling hub for bacteria. A ...

Navel stones are not harmful, and they usually don’t cause pain. Your doctor can likely remove it in their office. You can prevent them from coming back by keeping your navel clean.

A navel stone is sometimes called an omphalolith or umbolith. It is a condition where substances like sebum, or skin oil, hair, dead skin cells, and dirt can accumulate and form a hardball.

While navel oranges themselves might be pretty standard, their history is anything but: The first person to successfully grow a navel orange tree in the United States was Eliza Tibbets, a ...

As for the assertions about gastrointestinal issues, navel pulling isn’t going to be of any help there either. When castor oil is ingested, however, it’s a slightly different story – taken ...

Topline A new trend called navel oiling—putting essential oil in the belly button for health benefits like weight loss—has gained popularity on TikTok, but although it’s linked to an ancient ...

The navel, a.k.a. the belly button (or, more clinically, the umbilicus) is really just a scar that marks the spot where the umbilical cord was attached. Everyone has one in the same spot — and ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Justine Kestler had her navel removal procedure done at Lab tattoo, in Lausanne, Switzerland by a modification artist known simply as Lucifer - a name for the Devil ...

In other words, navel gazing is hard-wired into the human libido. Americans are just now finally coming around. Take the U.S. Naval Observatory--ever wonder what really goes on there?