Marks Daily Apple

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   NeoPaleo
   Member

   Wow, check this out.

   http://naturesplatform.com/health_benefits.html

   I *guess* this could be considered a Primal Resource...

   Posted 4 months ago #
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   Mark Sisson
   Key Master

   Ha! Good stuff, NeoPaleo. I might have to use it for Weekend Link Love. Cheers!

   Posted 4 months ago #
3. 

   hannahc
   Member

   Ya Mark you should definitely link that...now I feel like I need a squatting toilet. My husband has had IBS his whole life and had appendicitis when he was 13, and my grandma has had two serious surgeries for diverticulosis where she nearly died...I had no idea it was all linked that way. Almost frightening really.

   Posted 4 months ago #
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   jfellrath
   Member

   My goodness. That certainly is a... thorough look at the issue at hand.

   Posted 4 months ago #
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   SassaFrass88
   Member

   A lot of other countries have their restrooms set up with a porcelain or stainless steel type of drain directly on the floor with 'feet impressions' on either side, meant, primarily, for squatting!

   Sure cuts down on the need to purchase those protective seat-cover papers people like to use!

   Birthing is also primarily accomplished in the squatting position. It opens the hips and lessens the 'station' length of which the baby has to 'travel' through.

   Posted 4 months ago #
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   Catalina
   Member

   I've had something like this recommended (for those of us who don't have the achiles tendons and balance to squat up top of a toilet):

   http://www.healthstep.com/

   I'd like to hear more about whether this really is very healthy and worth doing--haven't tried it.

   Posted 4 months ago #
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   Diana Renata
   Member

   I've been squatting down (though not in the bathroom) after seeing Mark do it in one of his videos (demonstrating sprints I believe.) I can squat longer but I still can't stay that way for long yet. I've gotten to the point where I don't need to hold onto something to get into position, AND it's much easier on the kneecaps to clean the floor when squatting. I try to squat at the computer when possible too. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around squatting on the toilet. :P

   Posted 4 months ago #
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   SassaFrass88
   Member

   In college, we had a male dorm with Vietnamese kids who squatted EVERYWHERE. Even in the restroom stalls where the stupid doors were missing...there they were, squatting away!

   Posted 4 months ago #
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   Miriam
   Member

   Gotta try this next time I am in Singapore – wherever you go there are always the squatting stalls as well as the “normal” toilets.

   I squat while cleaning (and also gardening) as well Diana, just find it easy and also means I always have a “seat”!

   Posted 4 months ago #
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    SullynNH
    Member

    had them in Turkey too when I was stationed there...makes sense. When I was in altitude chamber training, they taught us to kind of do that by rounding the back...helps get the gas bubble moving(not a fun experience as air/gas expands at altitude)

    Posted 4 months ago #
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    OnTheBayou
    Member

    If I squatted, I would not be able to get up again with my bad knees unless I fell over sideways.

    Not saying the theories are wrong, just saying I'm grateful for the western toilet! As I would say, most elderly.

    I remember those holes in the stone floors in the public loo in Cairo.

    Posted 4 months ago #
12. 

    Catalina
    Member

    Diana, have you found that in addition to staying in a squat longer, you are more flexible (like getting your butt closer to the ground), or were you already able to get down low?

    Bayou, the "fell over sideways" comment made me laugh! (But just 'cuz I applied the image to myself--that would be me!)

    Posted 4 months ago #
13. 

    AdamKayce
    Member

    I've been a squatter for over fifteen years now, and the idea of sitting is just bizarre to me now.

    I got started when I was stuck in the countryside for a few days at a house with broken plumbing - trial by fire, huh? (Thank goodness we had a shovel.) Anyhow, those three days of forced squatting made such a difference to me that I've never gone back.

    It does take a little time to get your flexibility back, if you're not used to it, but less time than you'd think.

    Oh, and I've seen people buy all kinds of contraptions, get new toilets, whatever - totally unnecessary. Just lift up the seat and climb aboard. (Oh, I'm 6'4", by the way, so this is not a technique reserved for smaller people, either!)

    Posted 4 months ago #
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    NicoB
    Member

    LOL!

    AK you're 6'4" but what is you weight, I could just imagine myself trying it and then having to explain how exactly did the toilet bowl snap in half...

    Posted 1 month ago #
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    PrimalGoddess
    Member

    when I lived in Adana Turkey the public bathrooms were holes in the floor and you had to squat! xoxo Darlene

    Posted 1 month ago #
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    SullynNH
    Member

    PG--I know what you mean about Adana, I was stationed at Incirlik...

    Loved Turkey BTW....a must visit if anyone gets the chance

    Posted 1 month ago #
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    Indiscreet
    Member

    I've just got back from a Korea and Japan theme park tour. Quite a few of the public bathrooms have squat toilets. I didn't have to poop in one but I used them a couple of times and it's kinda hard not to splash one's feet a bit. :/

    Posted 1 month ago #
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    62shelby
    Member

    They still have the porcelain hole in the floor toilets in some places in France.....I would rather s#*t in the woods like a bear.

    Arent there birthing stools as well to make giving birth easier because its more gravity fed, rather than laying on a stupid bed like a dead bug upside down? then having to push against gravity?

    Posted 1 month ago #
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    chocolatechip69
    Member

    My goodness, it seems like the more information we dig into the more complicated the topic of "food for optimal health" gets. It starts to look like a bit like obsession.

    OnTheBayou, then you probably don't want to go in those hole-bathrooms they have in those countries people are referring to:) I'm from Ukraine and they still have those babies in pretty much every single public bathroom. Not only you have to pay to get in there, but you also most certainly don't want to fall there as people usually miss the hole and do the deed all over the place.

    NicoB, I almost fell off my chair laughing. I just got that vision of a heavy man or woman trying to climb on top of a tinny tiny toilet and then falling off of it or breaking it:) Hilarious.

    Posted 1 month ago #
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    Indiscreet
    Member

    There was actually a hilarious sign in a Japanese "western style" toilet showing how to sit on it (ie not facing backwards and not standing on it and squatting). I took a photo but I've only been back one day so haven't uploaded it anywhere yet.

    Posted 1 month ago #
21. 

    shastagirl
    Member

    you mean like these indiscreet?

    

    

    hehe
    i saw something like these on a recent trip to japan in the international airport!

    Posted 1 month ago #
22. 

    PrimalGoddess
    Member

    sully that is where we were stationed! but a long time ago...1980-1982

    Posted 1 month ago #

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