Dr. Trisha Pasricha

You just needed to open that door.

Squatting.

You know, if you go to a daycare and you look around at all the kids in their diapers who are potty training and one of them has to poop, what do they do?

They drop the deepest squat you've ever seen in your life.

And they go.

Physiologically, squatting is the correct way to go.

And this comes back to our pelvic floor, which we always underappreciate.

We don't think about.

There is this muscle in our pelvic floor called the puborectalis muscle.

And that muscle forms a sling around our colons, almost like our body stepping on its own hose.

It creates this kink that causes this block.

And that block is present when we're just sitting down, as you and I are right now.

But when we squat, that puborectalis muscle relaxes and the tube straightens out again.

So we're able to go and push things out effectively.

If we're not squatting, we just have to generate a lot more force.

Now, I don't think that anybody is going to go back to squatting.

We used to do that thousands of years ago.

Nobody wants to do that in the comfort of their own homes.

Oh, I've seen those.

I've lived those.