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Don't use your phone while you poop

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Re: Don't use your phone while you poop

#31
There's also showering. (But I've taken to playing music in the shower with a waterproof boombox. Bluetooth'd from my phone, of course.)

And of course, sleeping. ;)

But there is something to this. Intuitive ideas come to you in the quiet moments.

Re: Don't use your phone while you poop

#35

Flip side: more sitting on the toilet ensures a more complete emptying and less rushing/straining.

Flip side: sitting too long on the toilet increases hemorrhoid risk. [0] Not having a distraction doesn’t mean a person needs to strain. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12407481/

Long-time toiletsitter, here. No haemorrhoids.

Re: Don't use your phone while you poop

#38

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? What? A healthy colon and diet usually do not need to strain or rush. Just sit and poop. like 1min tops.

You need to get that dysentery tended to.

? Sorry? A healthy colon and diet it’s not liquid or messy. A nice type 4 normal solid log that slides on out.

I’m very scared for most people I see online discussing BMs. People have some seriously twisted up guts and diets.

Re: Don't use your phone while you poop

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

? What? A healthy colon and diet usually do not need to strain or rush. Just sit and poop. like 1min tops.

You need to get that dysentery tended to.

Everyone's gut is different, but one minute isn't unreasonably short, especially if you have something like a bidet for fast cleaning afterwards. Are you sure you're not constipated?

Re: Don't use your phone while you poop

#40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flip side: sitting too long on the toilet increases hemorrhoid risk. [0] Not having a distraction doesn’t mean a person needs to strain. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12407481/

Long-time toiletsitter, here. No haemorrhoids.

Some people don’t die from cancer after smoking their whole lives either.
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