Perfect Your Poop Pose

I want to talk to you about your pose.

No, not this pose or this pose, but this pose.

No way am I showing you that pose.

We're gonna be talking about pooping.

The culprit, your poop position.

Some sources think we've been doing it all wrong-- I mean wrong-- this whole time.

Sitting on toilets seemed more dignified when they were presumably invented in the early 1900s.

Even back in 1924, Dr. William Welles quoted leading medical authorities.

He wrote, "it would have been better if the contraption had killed its inventor before he launched it under humanity's buttocks."

So let's break down the problem.

When you sit on a toilet for that needed release, your bowels actually kink up.

Well, technically it's your anorectal angle.

Am I really saying this?

It's the area between your anus and your rectum that gets knotted.

Like this.

(ENGLISH ACCENT) This more civilized approach (AMERICAN ACCENT) to bowel movements this could possibly be causing bloating, hemorrhoids, even constipation, just to name a few.

But when you squat to do your job, it actually puts your bowels in the proper alignment.

Gravity will do its thing, and your body will actually loosen up, allowing it to flow like this.

Animals have mastered the squatting position, and maybe we should take a note from nature.

A large part of the eastern world uses squatting toilets-- toilets that do not allow you to sit and force you to take a more primal position.

So you're probably not gonna go home and remove your toilet, but you can buy a thing and that will help to get you aligned.

Place it right under your toilet and just slide it out so you can, well, slide it out.

OK, so if we haven't lost you by this point, just admit it.

You're curious.

So the next time you're in the bathroom, perfect that pose.