If we look around, math is everywhere even in the bathroom.

It is believed that the angle created by your rectum while sitting on the toilet affects your health! It means, your position of sitting in the toilet, says a lot about your health. You should know about the right way or wrong way to use it.

Bright Side has revealed that what is the best position to sit in a toilet and how pooping and happiness are related.

1. Squatting

According to this study, squatting is the best position of sitting in the toilet. For westerners, this might be an awkward position as toilets are designed for people to sit on them and lean slightly forward.

2. Sitting and leaning forward

Leaning forward while sitting in the toilet, might be a bad idea. Ultimately, whether you’re sitting or not, there’s such as thing as proper bowel position. If you’re a “leaner”, go little down until your elbows touch your knees. In this position, you can make the squatting angle.

3. Sitting and leaning backward

Sitting and leaning back maybe a bad idea. In this position, the angle created between the puborectalis muscle and the rectum needs more effort.

4. Sitting and facing the tank

This is the most uncomfortable way to go to the bathroom. Firstly, it stops you from leaning forward to make the squatting position, as Giulia Enders recommends. Secondly, this is an unpractical position that forces you to stay in the bathroom for a long time or even strain yourself, which also bad.

5. Reverse squatting

Squatting in a Western bathroom can be uncomfortable, but reverse squatting can be fun. The effects on your body are the same since a less acute angle is created.

Sitting in the right position in the toilet is important because it allows you to release stools easily. A recent study says, scientists from Belgium proved that intestinal microbes can affect your nervous system, thus affecting your mood.

 

 

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