Dr. Trisha Pasricha
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2,195 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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Now, remember, you think about the colon, which is this long tube,
And at the end, I mentioned there's this part of the colon called the rectum, which is this reservoir.
Well, we all have this thing called the pelvic floor, which is this set of muscles that are right there at the finish line, and they have to coordinate and contract and relax in this right sequence in order for everything to exit.
Well, actually, there is this muscle in the pelvic floor.
It's called the puborectalis muscle, which when we are sitting like we are at our desk chairs, it
chokes the colon shut it acts like a sling around it almost like your body stepping on its own hose and that's a good thing when we're at work and we're like just trying to type this email but you really don't want that tube to be kinked when you're trying to poop and that's exactly what happens now the way that you can open that tube and relax that muscle is to squat and
Keep something around the toilet that will help you elevate your knees above your waist when you go.
And that could be a stool.
It could be a box.
It could be a pair of stilettos.
Whatever it takes, just elevate your knees as much as you can above your waist.
And they've done these studies that...
Obviously, not only is this very helpful to people who know that they have constipation, who experience constipation, but actually even healthy people, like that group of people who think they're doing it just fine, who are just living their lives.
When they start to lift their knees above their waist, they say, oh my goodness, I was doing it all wrong.
This is way better.
And that just goes to show how much you don't know how much you're missing until you try something new.
Yeah, everyone knows it.
I mean, if you just lean forward a little bit like the thinker, even that will help straighten up that angle right there of the colon if you have absolutely nothing on hand to prop up your knees.
And of course, even better if you can do both.
Ultra-processed foods are really anything that you couldn't make in your own kitchen.
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