Dr. Trisha Pasricha
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We have a muscle, the puborectalis muscle, that chokes that muscle closed.
That's a good thing.
This muscle saves our butt.
Exactly.
Okay.
However, we can't have a good bowel movement and relax that muscle so it opens up that tube sitting in this 90 degree chair-like position that we have in our modern toilets.
The best way to open up that tube is to squat, right?
And squatting is something that we used to do thousands of years ago, but we've changed those mechanics.
And obviously squatting is a difficult thing for a lot of people to do.
And I'm not asking, actually, I don't squat, but I do raise my knees above the waist.
And you can just do that with something as simple as a stool.
Yeah, stool.
Yeah.
One of the most common things that people come to my clinic complaining about is that they struggle to have a bowel movement.
And that can mean a lot of different things.
Some people can say, I go to the bathroom every single day.
Great.
But it takes me 20 minutes.
I'm straining.
It's hard.