Mel Robbins

Yes.

I've heard you talk about the five-minute toilet rule.

What is that?

If you're in there for five minutes, you've got your knees up on the stool or feet up on the stool.

You're trying to relax into it and nothing's happening.

Just pull up the pants and come back later.

You're kidding me.

Holy cow.

So that actually makes sense.

So let me just make sure I'm following this.

Yep.

So hemorrhoids, and like explain to the person listening who's never had a hemorrhoid because there was a person in our family that got one for the first time.

And it was a whole...

Somebody should do a sitcom episode about it and Preparation H and the panic about what one should do with it and the horror to understand that mom and dad actually had Preparation H.

already in the house this is normal people get these things um and so you have to put that up there what and so i a hemorrhoid i always thought a hemorrhoid was like irritation of the skin yeah from something but you're saying it's actually the veins around your exit yeah that are filling it's

Oh, it like hangs out?

You can hang out.

Now, Dr. Pasricha, you also talk about being very intentional about toilet paper, which seems weird, but you say it matters a lot.

Why?

Yeah.