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DESCRIPTION: Squatting and leaning can help straighten the anorectal angle, but a healthy enough diet should make bowel movements effortless regardless of positioning.
The “forcing part of your stomach up through the diaphragm into our chest cavity” phenomenon is covered in Diet and Hiatal Hernia ( The “ballooning of out-pouchings from our colon” is called diverticulosis. There’s a video I did about 6 years ago (Diverticulosis & Nuts but have some new and improved ones coming up soon:
Diverticulosis: When Our Most Common Gut Disorder Hardly Existed and Does Fiber Really Prevent Diverticulosis?
More on that extraordinary African data here:
• Dr. Burkitt’s F-Word Diet (
• Our Number One Killer Can Be Stopped (
• One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic (
So excited to be able to slip in a plug for Dr. Kahn’s work. His brand of “interpreventional cardiology” can be found at (
If you missed the last video in this series, check out How Many Bowel Movements Should You Have Every Day? (
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