People are just realising there's a 'proper poop position', thanks to an unusual new toilet design - have YOU been going in the wrong way?
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Social media users have been shocked to learn they’ve been doing a number two wrong—after learning of a new, bizarre toilet that’s designed for the optimum bowel-emptying position. 

A curved toilet seat that dips in the middle is said to be the best shape to help avoiding kinks or folds in the rectum that can cause us to strain.

A viral video demonstration of the toilet shared to social media that’s been viewed more than 66,000 times, shows that the device allows the body to sink much lower than the average toilet as it lifts the knees higher than the hips.

This recreates a squat position—what has long been shown to be the optimum stance to relieve constipation and help the stool exit the bowel.

Similar designs already exist with many Asian countries having squat toilets, and in 2012 US company Squatty Potty launched the highly popular foot stool in the UK, dubbed the ‘stool for better stools’.

Reacting to the video, social media users have been horrified to learn they’ve been ‘pooping wrong’. 

One Reddit user joked: ‘Sitting on a toilet with incorrect posture as I watch this.’

Another agreed: ‘I have been pooping in the wrong posture for my entire life.’

Social media users have been shocked to learn they've been doing a number two wrong¿after learning of a new, bizarre toilet that's designed for the optimum bowel-emptying position

Social media users have been shocked to learn they’ve been doing a number two wrong—after learning of a new, bizarre toilet that’s designed for the optimum bowel-emptying position

The unique toilet allows your body to sink much lower as it lifts the knees higher than the hips, straightening out any kinks while reducing straining

The unique toilet allows your body to sink much lower as it lifts the knees higher than the hips, straightening out any kinks while reducing straining

A third joked: ‘How many more years I could have had…I’ve been doing the poop posture wrong my whole life.’ 

While many are divided on how practical it really is. 

‘First of all, f**k no to a toilet that low to the ground. I want to get up off of it at some point, and that won’t be possible when both my kneecaps shoot across the room. Second, what is all this talk about “proper positioning”? Do people have a problem pooping just sitting on a toilet?,’ one Reddit user said.

‘Um yeah but how high is that water? Some people have low-hanging fruit,’ said another.

Another agreed: ‘I’m sure it’s perfect…perfectly awful, such that you’re either (quite literally) teabagging the water or you’ll get vomit-inducing splashback because the water is so low.’

Kelsey Trull, a digestive health expert, advises the best position for opening the bowels is the squat, as it relaxes your muscles enough to straighten out the intestine, making it easier for waste to travel to the rectum.

Sitting with the body at a 90 degree angle to the leg means a muscle in the colon, called the puborectalis, remains taut, which keeps the intestine ‘kinked’.

Sitting with the body at a 90 degree angle to the leg means a muscle in the colon, called the puborectalis, remains taut. This keeps the bowel kinked, making it hard for faeces to pass through

Sitting with the body at a 90 degree angle to the leg means a muscle in the colon, called the puborectalis, remains taut. This keeps the bowel kinked, making it hard for faeces to pass through

Our modern toilet-habits could be making it difficult to promote bowel movements and so too much straining could lead to haemorrhoids

Our modern toilet-habits could be making it difficult to promote bowel movements and so too much straining could lead to haemorrhoids

Resting one’s feet on a stool bring the legs up to a squatting position, the puborectalis loosens, making the colon straight and faeces can pass through easily.

Research has also suggested that squatting is the superior technique.

According to a 2012 study published in the journal Digestive Diseases and Sciences, those who squatted on a toilet took an average of 51 seconds to release their bowels.

Meanwhile, those who sat recorded an average time of over two minutes.

It comes as medics have suggested sitting on the toilet for longer than ten minutes could cause a range of intimate health problems—and may be a sign of colon cancer.

Gastroenterologist Dr Lance Uradomo explained how needing to spend longer on the loo to complete a bowel movement could be an indicator of the disease — which is on the rise in people under 50. 

‘If a growth inside the colon grows big enough it can block the flow of your stool, which can cause constipation and bleeding,’ he said.

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