The Squatty Potty Principle

Yesterday my stomach started to hurt. It happens once in a while to me and I know the in most cases I have eaten something I don’t tolerate. I think it was the cabbage I had as lunch.

Normally I am taking a huge dump and everything is fine again. I know from a Doctor visit as a child that I have got an elevated acidity level of my gastric acid.

But somehow my body managed to work with that higher acid level. I don’t have heartburns, and with that higher level, I can it stuff that shouldn’t be eaten anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t eat rotten fruit or something like that normally, but if it happens that something not as fresh hits my stomach it doesn’t really do anything bad to me.

It is like a secret superpower that protects you from getting ill from food.

But it has a downside: I can vomit from alcohol pretty easily. So if I know I’m going to drink more than just a few beers I’m taking something to deactivate my pancreatic glands which brings my stomach from sour to alkaline. The “sour” alcohol brings it back to normal levels.

The second downside is sometimes some really heavy abdominal cramps. I had some of those yesterday, luckily bad, bad not as bad as I had them in the past.

So, I was sitting on the toilet, thinking about this video a coworker showed me some time back: Squatty Potty.

I don’t have one of those things at home, but I tried to put something under my feet so it would emulate the effect that the Squatty Potty has.

It immediately worked. It was way easier to get the stuff out, with way less effort.

I’m probably going to order a device similar to the Squatty Potty or look at a local DIY store if they have something like it.

Like the video Title says: “This Unicorn Changed the Way I Poop”.

Also according to the video, it is the most optimal way to poop and better for your organs if you do it that way.

If you’ve got troubles the next time taking a poop, think about some “strange” methods like this. As far as I know, it is scientifically proofed. :)