Dr. Trisha Pasricha

So some people still love squatting.

And those people are on to something.

And actually, I'm sure they have like better balance than a lot of us have.

But if you're not ready for that, or you just like are going to say like, there's no way I'm going to swap out.

my toilet in my house for one of those porcelain holes then you can do the bare minimum which is just to raise your knees above your waist you just need a stool or you need a stack of books or something that you can lift your knees up on and people who don't even identify as having constipation just like healthy people once they do this even they say oh my gosh wait a minute

This is way easier to go than before.

And they've studied this, that even healthy people find that lifting their knees up allows them to go more easily.

And this is a great example of that.

You actually could be doing a lot better in so many ways than you think.

Yeah.

Modern life has done us this disservice.

And there are a lot of people who need that seat because balance is really, really hard.

But for a lot of people, we've made a moment that actually shouldn't be that comfortable.

We shouldn't be so relaxed that we should be able to just watch an episode of The Pit on our phones while we're doing this other job.

If you had to squat in this porcelain hole on the ground...

How many of us would be pulling out our smartphones and relaxing?

None of us.

We would all just get in and we would get the heck out of there.

But we'd be pooping better.

We'd have fewer hemorrhoids.