Dr. Giulia Enders

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The Knowledge Project · How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

And this is this seat of toilet that looks like a chair, you know, and we sit on it in a posture that we usually know from, you know, sitting on a chair.

And our body has the smart mechanism of having a muscle going around the end of the gut and then

you know, holding it back a little bit so that we stand or when we sit in that position, not all of it is like immediately in the position to come out.

So it creates this curve.

When we put our legs up a little bit, you could say like a 30 degree angle from just being horizontal, then this gets loosened up and then there's not this curve anymore, but it's rather a bit straight and, you know,

This is just the natural position when we squat outdoors when we go to the toilet.

And this is then better, anatomically speaking, a better way to go to the toilet because you need less pressure and you're not pressing against, you know, your own muscles holding stuff back.

And this way can reduce the risk of hemorrhoids or diverticulosis, which we see less of in countries where people still use a squatting position when they go to the toilet.

So it is a good idea to maybe try to emulate this.

And you can do so with a little stool in front of your toilet where you just, you know, put your feet on.

I've heard now so many people report back to me that this has helped them or that they really miss it now when they go elsewhere.

They will use like the tiny bin in the hotel toilet.

put in front of the toilet so that they have this position because it just feels more natural.

And there's been a study on that by Dov Sikirov, a researcher who compared these different sitting positions and could show that it's much easier or it also feels better for people that they really got everything out when they are rather in that position than in a normal chair stool position.

So constipation is, well, the problem of having the feeling you're not really emptying all the way when you go to the toilet, of having a too hard, too difficult time to go to the toilet.

You really need a lot of force to get stuff out or you even need to like help a little bit, manipulate so that you can get it out.

It can be too hard.

So these little pieces of stool like a goat would have, for example, is a good indicator that it has just spent too much time in the gut already.

got all the liquids and then some more.

So it's really like dehydrated a little bit.

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