Toilet Stool
Toilet Stool – For a Healthier Life.
Squat or Sit?
Is the Western toilet in part responsible for problems like hemorrhoids, constipation, IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease), appendicitis, and even heart attacks?
If you examine the data, there is a great deal of evidence this is true. The modern toilet has required us to change the position we use to evacuate our bowels, which changes the anatomy of… well, a poop, to put it bluntly.
Infants instinctively squat to defecate, as does the majority of the world’s population. But somehow the West was convinced that sitting is more civilized.
Sitting on the modern Thomas Crapper-style sit-down toilet is designed to place your knees at a 90-degree angle to your abdomen. However, the time-honored natural squat position places the knees much closer to your torso, and this position actually changes the spatial relationships of your intestinal organs and musculature, optimizing the forces involved in defecation.
Sitting to evacuate your bowel requires you to apply additional force (straining), which has some unwanted biological effects, including a temporary disruption in cardiac flow.
Can the Toilet Be Blamed for Increasing Rates of Colon and Pelvic Disease?
Squatting is the way our ancestors performed their bodily functions until the middle of the 19th Century. Chair-like toilets were reserved for the royals and the disabled. But the “progress†of westernized societies may be partly to blame for higher rates of colon and pelvic disease, as described by a report in the Israel Journal of Medical Science:â€The prevalences of bowel diseases (hemorrhoids, appendicitis, polyps, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticular disease, and colon cancer) are similar in South African whites and in populations of prosperous western countries. Among rural South African blacks with a traditional life style, these diseases are very uncommon or almost unknown.â€
Health problems potentially stemming from the sitting position include the 15 outlined below.
Appendicitis, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Incontinence, Colitis, Crohn’s Disease, Diverticulitis, Contamination of the small intestine, Gynecological disorders, including Pelvic Organ Prolapse and uterine Fibroids, Colan cancer, Hiatal Hernia and GERD, Pregnancy and child birth, Prostate disorders, Sexual dysfunction, Reduced risk of cardiac events.
THE STRAIGHT POOP
Evidence suggests bowel and pelvic problems may be related to improper potty posture. Only with the traditional squat position is your body aligned in a way that promotes complete bowel emptying. As you can see from the diagram, squatting actually straightens and relaxes your rectum.
According to Jonathan Isbit of Nature’s Platform:
“For safety, nature has deliberately created obstacles to evacuation that can only be removed by squatting. In any other position, the colon defaults to ‘continence mode.’ This is why the conventional sitting position deprives the colon of support from the thighs and leaves the rectum choked by the puborectalis muscle. These obstacles make elimination difficult and incomplete – like trying to drive a car without releasing the parking brake.
Chronically incomplete evacuation, combined with the constant extraction of water, causes wastes to adhere to the colon wall. The passageway becomes increasingly constricted and the cells start to suffocate. Prolonged exposure to toxins will often trigger malignant mutations.â€
He goes on to explain how the kink where your sigmoid joins your rectum (refer to the colon diagram above) serves an important function in continence. It “applies the brakes†to the flow of peristalsis, reducing the pressure on your puborectalis muscle. According to Isbit’s article, squatting offers seven advantages:
Makes elimination faster, easer and more complete. This helps prevent “fecal stagnation,†a prime factor in colon cancer, appendicitis and IBD
Protects the nerves that control the prostate, bladder and uterus from becoming stretched and damaged.
Securely seals the ileocecal valve, between the colon and the small intestine, in the conventional sitting position, this valve is unsupported and often leaks into the small intestine .
Relaxes the puborectalis muscle which normally chokes the rectum in order to maintain continence.
Uses the thighs to support the colon and prevent straining. Chronic straining on the toilet can cause hernias. Diverticulosis, and pelvic organ prolapse
A highly effective, non-invasive treatment for hemorrhoids, as shown by published clinical research.
For pregnant woman, squatting avoids pressure on the uterus when using the toilet, daily squatting helps prepare pregnant woman for a more natural delivery.
ARE YOU READY TO ASSUME THE POSITION?
The scientific benefits of squatting have sparked efforts to design devices that help would-be squatters to return to a more natural pooping position. However, if you’ve been using a sit-down toilet your entire life and haven’t squatted since childhood, squatting may present somewhat of a physical challenge – to say the least!
Various devices have appeared in the marketplace to assist with this problem, You may wish to check out some of these contraptions on the Internet. Squatting involves strength and flexibility that adults tend to lose over time, but children have naturally. These devices – special toilets and stools that get your body into a more “squatting†position – may help you get closer to the ideal.
By Dr. Mercola
December 03, 2012
Article posted on mercola.com
Available now in the Kapiti region, toilet stools/squatting aids
Hand crafted in 18mm plywood and coated with exterior quality polyurethane.
Measurements:
Width 61 cms Depth 33 cms
There are 3 Heights:
High 23 cms - 9 inches
Medium 18 cms -7 inches
Low 13 cms – 5 inches
Most people will be OK with the high size but for those with hip or knee problems, and the elderly we recommend the medium, or low . This is the most comfortable way to asume the correct posture. Phone 04 293 5631
This broacher entitles the bearer to a Toilet Stool for the introductory price of $90.00
