Sitting on toilets longer than 10m risks hemorrhoids

Spend no more than 10 minutes sitting on a toilet, say doctors Farah Monzur, director of Long Island's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Stony Brook Medicine and Lai Xue, a colorectal surgeon out of Dallas. One's buttocks are compressed by the seat's descending oval shape, "keeping the rectum in a lower position" compared to a flat seat and creating "A one-way valve where blood enters, but blood really can't go back." — Read the rest

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