Squatty Potty Ecco | The Original Bathroom Toilet Stool | 9 Inch | White | Puts Your Body in Optimal Natural Squatting Position

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This doctor recommended toilet stool is designed to help us mimic a natural squatting position when we go to the toilet, aligning the colon for easier, more effective and complete elimination. The recorded history of human defecation can be read as a series of attempts at differentiation: how do we separate our excrement from our bodies, our sewage from our homes and cities? How do we keep the sounds and smells of our bodily functions from infesting other people’s senses? How do we enforce social hierarchies by dividing the bodies of the powerful from the bodies of the oppressed?

Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. Registered in England. All Rights Reserved.Easier, more complete toileting and elimination, no laxatives, no straining just natural positioning safely for maximum bowel emptying. Great-looking, effective and reliable, the Bamboo Flip Toilet Stool by Squatty Potty had to take our number one spot! Made from eco-friendly bamboo, it has natural anti-bacterial properties, and with its clean lines and wood finish, we think it's the most stylish option out there. But it’s the banal Squatty Potty that’s doing the most to change not just how people discuss poop, but how they actually do it. “It’s piercing that final veil around bodily use and bodily functions,” Barbara Penner, professor of architectural humanities at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture, and one of the preeminent scholars of the modern bathroom, told me. Perhaps it’s because this small, unlovely stool embodies a grand ambition: to upend two centuries of western orthodoxy about going to the loo. Wondering whether a fold-away toilet stool is right for you? If you find toilet stools a little unsightly and would prefer to store them out of sight when not in use, one that folds away would probably suit you best.

Squatting may be natural, but the question remains: is the Squatty Potty also good? Post Darwin, we no longer tend to believe a couple of hundred or thousand years of human ingenuity can improve upon the immemorial march of evolution. Those who think the water closet has been vindicated by history ignore how contingent, and in some ways irrational, modern sewage systems with seated toilets really are. This is underscored by the fact that billions of people regularly use modern, hygienic squat toilets to poop. Squatty Potty is a simple but effective aid that helps you to achieve the optimal squatting position when using the loo. It raises your knees upwards so that you can lean forward and gently press your abdomen onto your thighs. Your rectal muscles will go into elimination mode and you will experience a complete and healthy bowel movement without excessive straining. The good news is that when it comes to poo, there is no normal. 'Being regular is important, though how many times you poo really varies from person to person, so what is normal for you won’t necessarily be normal for someone else,' says Gill. 'Being regular can range from three times per day to three times per week!' When is the best time to poo? Add chopped fruit and nuts to your cereal and replace half the meat in Bolognese or chilli with beans or pulses.When sitting down the anorectal angle is kinked and the puborectalis muscle chokes the rectum, keeping faeces inside. It is only when we squat, lifting our knees higher than our hips, that the anorectal angle is straightened and the puborectalis muscle releases the rectum, allowing complete defecation. People often say pooping is taboo, but lately it seems more like a cultural fetish. There are poop emoji birthday parties for three-year-olds, people WhatsApping photos of their ordure to friends, TripAdvisor threads on how to avoid or avail yourself of squat toilets. Through the miracle of online media, you can now discover that, in the past year, both Brisbane, Australia and Colorado Springs, Colorado, suffered reigns of terror by mystery “pooping joggers” who ran around crapping on people’s lawns. There’s a whole YouTube subculture devoted to infiltrating restrooms with vintage toilets and surreptitiously flushing them over and over again ( one of these channels has more than 16m views). The renowned novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard has devoted passage after passage to his bowel movements. You can even read opinion pieces about the pleasures of evacuating in the nude. But this sudden enthusiasm for disclosing private habits masks a deeper truth: shitting and shit have never stopped being profoundly public. Behind the closed door of the bathroom have always lurked the public structures – the pipes, the laws, the labour – that manage human waste. And, behind those, lie defecation’s two inescapable conditions: our bodies and the planet. The Squatty Potty was born in similarly unfortunate circumstances. “I was constipated my whole life,” Judy Edwards, the Squatty Potty co-creator, admitted in 2016. For a long time, she had been using a little footstool in the bathroom. “We’d teased her about it for years, about this stupid poop stool she’d bring on vacation,” her son Bobby told me. But the footstool wasn’t quite right, so one day, after Bobby, who was working as a building contractor, started taking design classes, Judy asked him to take a look at it. “She took me to the bathroom and she showed me how it worked, and as she was sitting there explaining it to me, it’s like a light went on in my head,” Bobby said. Since its inception in the US, the Squatty Potty has been helping unwitting members of the public to achieve the 'right' angle while going to the toilet. The makers suggest that by using the simple foot stool to create a semi-squat position on the toilet, this effectively unfurls the colon, giving your faeces a clearer run to its destination.