Squating vs. Sitting

March 9, 2003

Here is an intresting article I found today. Any opinions?

Becky

SQUAT - DON'T SIT!!!

Change your toilet seat so you can heal constipation (and many other problems 'down there')

by Stephanie Relfe B.Sc.

You may find this information incredible - but read on. It may begin to make sense once you get used to the idea.

Believe it or not, the current toilet seat is a comparatively new invention. It was developed in the Industrial revolution by people who thought it was more 'dignified' to sit on a 'throne' than the way the natives did. However, many doctors at the time were worried about this causing health problems because it went against nature. But in Victorian England where even table legs were covered with long table-cloths because they suggested legs (which were called only "limbs") it was considered very improper to discuss such things.

If you have ever felt, as many, many people do, that after you have evacuated, there is still something left, here is the reason:

The anal canal is UNSTRAIGHTENED when seated. Bowel evacuation when seated results frequently in OBSTRUCTIVE CONSTIPATION.1

Adopt a relaxed, FULL SQUAT POSTURE and the anal canal STRAIGHTENS.1

This obviously can help constipation. Months later other health improvements can happen, due to your body being free of extra toxins. Also, bladder function may improve after several months because of an improved pelvic floor nerve supply.

Oncologists have observed that 80% of colon cancers occur in the caecum and the sigmoid colon, the two areas that are not fully evacuated in the sitting posture. This causes fecal stagnation and probably explains why colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. In traditional Asian and African cultures where squatting is the norm, colon cancer is virtually unknown!

Most hemorrhoids will heal without relapse when, upon urge, the squat posture is adopted for bowel movements.2

Another serious condition caused by sitting to evacuate instead of squatting is the leakage of wastes into the small intestine. This affects the ileo-caecal valve, which is considered by modern medicine to be inherently flawed because it is so often leaking. Ask a kinesiologist and they will most likely tell you that the ileo-caecal correction is one of the most common corrections that needs to be done. Also, the toxins get into the bloodstream and hence put more pressure on the liver which has to detox them.

Most sufferers usually notice significant comfort improvement within seven days of making this simple change of habit to the squat posture because body wastes pass through the straightened anal canal.

I began to learn all this when I visited India, where I learned to use an Asian toilet ("Eastern toilet"). The first one I saw was in an airport. I went into the cubicle. It was very clean and there was no smell. It all seemed quite strange, but I had been warned. The cubicle was fully lined with tiles. In the middle is a gutter. You squat either side of the gutter and do your stuff. On the side there is a tap and a bucket (no toilet paper). You fill the bucket with water and pour it on yourself to wash you clean. Then, if still needed, you pour more water in to wash the waste away, down a hole at the end of the gutter.

There are several ways you can manage to turn your present toilet into one where you can squat:

1. Purchase a platform

2. Pile up bricks around your toilet (make sure they are safe and sturdy)

A story told by my mother made me realise that this may be more important than we think. Mum said how one day she was out somewhere in Australia and went into a public toilet. Accidentally she walked into a toilet where there was someone else. The funny thing was - she saw that the person in there was balanced up, squatting on the toilet! Now, that is a lot of trouble to go to. I assume that if you have been used to squat all your life, then you really KNOW how unnatural and difficult our modern toilets really are.

It is especially important for children to squat - but I haven't worked out yet just how to do this without taking them outside! Any ideas would be welcome.

I have a suspicion that if someone was to do some research, they would find that there is a correlation between height and incidence of bowel cancer. I believe the shorter a person is, the more likely it is that they will have bowel problems, because when they site their bowel is even more bent than it is for taller people who can manage to lift their legs up a bit.

REFERENCES

1) Ref: Primary Constipation - An Underlying Mechanism" Sikirov B.A. Medical Hypotheses 1989 Feb: 28(2):P71-73

2) "Management of Haemorrhoids - A new approach" Sikirov B.A. Israel Journal of Medical Sciences: Vol. 23 1987; 284 - 286

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