WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF USING STOOL?

The civilisation progress has brought many amenities without which we do not imagine our life nowadays. One of them was popularisation of a sitting toilet towards the end of the 18th century, which admittedly became a symbol of the western civilisation progress but it also contradicted man’s physiology causing many diseases (the so-called civilisation diseases), almost unknown in countries in which people excrete squatting.

A sitting position during defecation forces us for an unnatural effort, it causes that defecation becomes difficult and even painful and partial. It happens because the mechanism responsible for closing intestines is built in such a way that it does not open completely in a sitting position.

A puborectalis muscle is wrapped around the intestine like a lasso loop, which pulls it up when we are sitting or standing in such a way that bending occurs, similar to the one which sometimes occurs on a garden hose and problems with defecation arise.

Our body has been designed in such a way that the most proper position during defecation is a squatting position. From the evolutionary point of view it is the best and most healthy position for a complete and natural process of eliminating excrement from the organism.

Toddlers already know instinctively which position is most favourable to their organism and they spend almost all their time in a squatting position. Since the dawn of time people have satisfied their physiological needs squatting – up to now in countries of the Near East and the Far East known for exquisitely developed natural medicine squatting toilets have been common.