Should You Sit, Squat, or Lean During a Bowel Movement?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2015-07-06

Squatting and leaning can help straighten the anorectal angle, but a healthy enough diet should make bowel movements effortless regardless of positioning.

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The “forcing part of your stomach up through the diaphragm into our chest cavity” phenomenon is covered in Diet and Hiatal Hernia (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-and-hiatal-hernia). The “ballooning of out-pouchings from our colon” is called diverticulosis. There’s a video I did about 6 years ago (Diverticulosis & Nuts http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diverticulosis-nuts/), but have some new and improved ones coming up soon:
Diverticulosis: When Our Most Common Gut Disorder Hardly Existed and Does Fiber Really Prevent Diverticulosis?

More on that extraordinary African data here:
• Dr. Burkitt’s F-Word Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dr-burkitts-f-word-diet/)
• Our Number One Killer Can Be Stopped (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/our-number-one-killer-can-be-stopped/)
• One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/one-in-a-thousand-ending-the-heart-disease-epidemic)

So excited to be able to slip in a plug for Dr. Kahn’s work. His brand of “interpreventional cardiology” can be found at http://www.drjoelkahn.com (http://www.drjoelkahn.com/).

If you missed the last video in this series, check out How Many Bowel Movements Should You Have Every Day? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-many-bowel-movements-should-you-have-every-day)

2022 update: You might be interested in my new video The Best Poop Position for Constipation. (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-poop-position-for-constipation/)

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-you-sit-squat-or-lean-during-a-bowel-movement and he'll try to answer it!

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