03/01/2025
Avoid Prolong Sitting in Toilet
Modern lifestyles become more and more sedentary, sitting for long periods🚽 of time can cause major issues to your spine and do damage to your health in many ways, we might not realise.
People have a habit of bringing their phones📱 to the bathroom.
A three-minute trip to the 🚽loo can easily turn into 15 minutes⏳ of reading📄, scrolling 📊 and posting📈.
The open oval-shaped toilet seat 🚽compresses the buttocks, keeping the re**um in a lower position, than if you were sitting on the couch🪑.
✅ With gravity pulling the lower half of the body down, the increased pressure affects your blood circulation.
✅ As a result, the veins and blood vessels surrounding the a**s and lower re**um become enlarged and engorged with blood, increasing the risk of hemorrhoids.
▶️ In some situation people have to spend an unusual amount of time on the toilet. Constant difficulty or discomfort when passing stool can be a symptom of gastrointestinal issues, such as irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s disease.
▶️ All of our upper body weight rests on our lower back, when we sit. This increased compression in and on our spinal discs and spinal column .
▶️ Sitting on the toilet for a long time can compress the sciatic nerve and cause sciatic neuropathy. This is because prolonged sitting can put pressure on the piriformis muscle, from where sciatic nerve travel.
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