My experience matches the results of other scientific studies. The puborectalis muscle is connected to the hip bones, and it wraps around the rectum. The puborectalis muscle bends and constricts the rectum. Relaxation of the puborectalis muscle allows the rectum to become straighter and wider, which facilitates defecation. The full squat position helps stimulate this relaxation of the puborectalis muscle. The full squat position also splits apart your butt cheeks and relaxes your hip extensor muscles, both of which create an easier passage for feces through your large intestine, rectum, and anus.
The biggest practical drawback with the Squatty Potty or the fully squat position is that it requires more flexibility for your knees and hips. I’m totally fine with it, but if you have a stiff body, then the Squatty Potty or the full squat could be painful and unstable for you. A minor drawback with the Squatty Potty is that it cannot fully imitate the full-squat position. A real squat-toilet is the optimal solution, but a squat toilet is extremely rare in America.
Other drawbacks could include cultural beliefs. Mainstream Western cultures consider the full squat to be an uncivilized behavior or a barbaric position. Mainstream Western cultures believe sitting is a much more dignified posture. Nearly all Westerners insist on using the sitting toilet everywhere they travel, thus, they have popularized the sitting toilet around the world. If you use a sitting toilet, then lean your upper body forward to slightly facilitate the defecation. However, this leaning technique is a half-assed solution.
At least many Western Europeans use sitting toilets that are supplemented with various types of bidets. The bidet was possibly invented and popularized to deal with the more strenuous and messier pooping experience that’s created by sitting for defecation, inadequate fiber consumption (i.e., deficient consumption of fruits and vegetables), diarrhea from bad foods or sickness, sedentary lifestyles (e.g., insufficient physical activity for your core muscles), etc. The bidet solves a messy problem that shouldn’t exist in the first place. A bidet is overkill. Generally speaking, you should not need that much water to clean your butt, unless you have a medical problem.
A wet wipe or damp paper-towel should be enough to clean your butt. For example, first use the dry toilet-paper (because wet toilet-paper breaks apart too easily), then use the damp paper-towel, and then dry off with toilet paper. I prefer function over form or practicality over style when it comes to excretion. At least for me, squatting for defecation is a vastly smoother and cleaner experience than sitting for defecation.
If the Squatty Potty is not tall enough for you, then try using two of these footstools: “ Camco 43672 Folding Metal Step Stool” (https://www.amazon.com/Camco-43672-Folding-Metal-Stool/dp/B004ME4NDA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476932551&sr=8-1&keywords=Camco+43672+Folding+Metal+Step+Stool). Each footstool is 11.5 inches tall. In my opinion, these footstools are better than the Squatty Potty. Place one footstool on the front-left side of the toilet, and then place the other footstool on the front-right side of the toilet. Sit on the toilet, and then rest your feet on the two footstools. If you need to, then use your arms to raise or lower each leg. For good balance, you want your left foot to be under your left butt and your right foot to be under your right butt. Your center of mass should be between and above your feet.
Your upper body should lean forward a bit, and your arms should be sticking forward. Your left armpit should be resting on your left knee, and your right armpit should be resting on your right knee. These two footstools should allow you to fully squat down on the typical American sitting-toilet. However, you should NOT rest your feet on the toilet seat, because the toilet seat could break, and then you could be injured. The toilet seat is NOT designed to hold your entire weight and balancing movements, because this combination will create excess torque on the toilet seat’s connection to the rest of the toilet.
The main drawback is the 11.5 inch tall footstool is shorter than the typical American toilet seat, which is around 15 inches tall. Thus, you will be in the full squat position while your butt rests on the toilet seat. In a traditional full squat position, your butt is above the ground by a few inches. If you dig a hole in the ground or use a squat toilet, then your butt will be a few more inches above the bottom of the ground hole or toilet hole. This means you could easily squat upward a bit to create enough clearance for wiping your butt.
With the two footstools, your butt rests on the toilet seat. Thus, you need to squat higher to create enough clearance for wiping. When it’s time for wiping, squat upward a bit and lean forward a bit. You want just enough clearance between your butt and the toilet seat for your wiping motion. After each wipe, return to the fully squat position. If you constantly flex your muscles to slightly squat upward, then you will quickly tire out your muscles.
One solution to the main drawback is to fully squat on taller footstools, thus, your butt never rests on the toilet seat, but this solution creates additional height between your butt and the bottom of the Western-style toilet. Thus, your poop will drop from a greater height (e.g., ~3 inches higher drop), which could create a bigger and messier splash. To minimize this splash, you could place some toilet paper on top of the toilet water. The toilet paper distributes the impact over a greater surface area (i.e., less concentration of force), and the toilet paper blocks the water from splashing upward.
The secondary drawback with using the 11.5 inches tall footstools with the toilet is that the two footstools are located to the front-left side and front-right side of the toilet seat, and your butt cheeks rest on the toilet seat. This means your feet cannot be placed directly underneath your butt cheeks. In other words, you are performing the full squat with somewhat widely placed feet. This gives your legs less leverage over your body mass.
Speaking of human waste, Donald Trump represents America's unofficial nobility class. He's Baron Humpy Trump the frumpy-hair grump with his multiple draft-dodging excuses, various gold-digging wives and mistresses, fake university, history of shell corporations that repeatedly go bankrupt (i.e., privatize profits and socialize losses), etc. He and his chump supporters claim to promote conservative American values, but this presidential campaign is a big stinking pile of bullshit. Baron Humpy Trump publically boasted he owned at least one beauty pageant, thus, he gets to sexually harass the beauty contestants, and then he denied his own statements: “One Diagram Explains Every Conspiracy Against Donald Trump” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35gzCtLHO3A). This is not surprising. These chump supporters previously supported President Curious George (the half-brained prince). The spoiled ignorance of Bush and Trump is the true value of the Zionist-Christian Republican Party. This political movement is increasingly outdated inside and outside America.
Here’s another example of superior freedom and justice from the Zionist West: On 2016 October 17 (Monday), Britain’s bank NatWest canceled its bank services for the Russian news agency Russia Today (RT): “Support floods in for RT following NatWest accounts closure notice” (https://www.rt.com/viral/363088-rt-natwest-bank-reaction/). NatWest did not give an explanation for its termination of services. Probability says the British bank disapproved of RT, because RT reports on news that are critical of Britain’s foreign and domestic events. In other words, Britain’s corporate-government oligarchy wants revenge against RT, thus, the British oligarchy financially restricted RT. This is also a warning shot. It is suppose to persuade RT to be less critical and more supportive of Britain’s foreign and domestic policies. If RT refuses to comply, then the punishments will be more severe. This is freedom and justice according to the British oligarchy.
Britain did the same thing to at least one of Iran’s news agencies. A few years ago, an Iranian news agency called Press TV had an extension in Britain. It reported news that were critical of Israel, the US, and Western Europe. Thus, Britain’s major corporations boycotted this Press TV extension, and the British government censored it. Britain should keep in mind that Russia is a lot more capable than Iran.
The above two incidents are good reasons out of many more for why we need global sources of news. Each nation’s native news for domestic and foreign coverages is too restricted in its news coverage due to economic limitations (e.g, central banksters’ biases, major corporations’ preferences, finite time and resources, and audiences’ inclinations), politically correct regulations, cultural ignorance, and other factors.
You cannot even trust social media from the Zionist US kleptocracy: “Need more ‘compassion’: How 11-strong Clinton team composed just 1 tweet” (https://www.rt.com/usa/363127-clinton-tweet-podesta-wikileaks/). The liberal-guilt Democrat Party insists we should trust Hillary Clinton to be our next president, but she is addicted to dishonesty. Social media (e.g., blogs and microblogs) is suppose to be a direct connection between the messenger and his/her audience. Social media is not suppose to be officially you, but unofficially your servants. Queen Hilarity Clinton needs multiple royal courts to constantly carry her, blog for her, excuse her from rule-by-law, drive her around, cook for her, clean after her, guard her, hide her pay-to-play politics, spread propaganda for her, craft public scripts & choreography for her, manage her fake charities for tax evasion and legalized bribery, etc. She is a pathological liar with a psychotic ego.
Clinton is merely a different brand of Trump. They represent the pinnacle of the US corporate-government oligarchy, which is increasingly unable to solve domestic and foreign problems. Their decadent self-worship and endless double-standards are the reasons for why the US political system is the most expensive charade in the world and the US corporate parasites require the petrodollar's global scams (e.g., central banksters' monopoly money, exclusive deals with oil-and-gas nations & other nations with rich natural resources, inflation tax, tax evasion, usury, financial fees & bureaucracy, infinite debt, unending derivatives, cartels of insider deals and revolving doors, and sanctions). These scams allow the inflation tax and other economic scams to be spread throughout the world instead of being concentrated in a single nation. This is another reason for why the world should decrease its usage of the petrodollar and seek alternative financial systems.
The modern myth insists democracy is the only good political system, but dumb-mock-crazy elections (e.g,. majority tyranny or mob rule) insist our best leader is either Queen Hilarity Clinton or Baron Humpy Trump. In other words, dumb-mock-crazy elections gave us a choice of a bitch or an asshole. One of them will succeed President Obummer (the liberal-guilt idol), and he carried on the legacy of President Curious George (the half-brained prince). This is ridiculous. Every time we get a “new” president, we should proclaim, “The oligarch (or figure-head) went to another cushy job; long live the new oligarch (or figure-head)!”
The average person clearly does not understand effective politics, which is not surprising, because the average person is ignorant about biochemistry, surgery, computer programming, aerodynamics, professional cooking, and other highly technical skills and analyses. No single person could master all of these topics. Thus, the average person repeatedly voted for a fucker-in-chief, and then wonders why the average person gets fucked over by his/her government. America’s Congress and other politicians have low approval ratings, but a long history of winning elections. Majority tyranny is an outdated or highly inefficient political system.
However, you do not need to be a professional chef to decide which restaurant you prefer or dislike. There is a huge difference between selecting a product and designing a product. In other words, our political system should be based on professional politicians who create various solutions. Let each person decide for him/herself which political solution s/he prefers or rejects. We do NOT need to all go in the same direction. People are naturally social animals, thus, each person will naturally work with other similar persons to create unique communities. In the real world, this individualist politics is unlikely to happen. This concept is too radical.
In reality, Western nations fanatically preach about dumb-mock-crazy elections. Western culture thoroughly glamorizes the relative majority’s one-size-fits-all solutions, which are highly inefficient for this increasingly complex and diverse world. The Zionist US kleptocracy is trying to create a global empire of cartels and proxies, but imperialism is another one-size-fits-all solution.
Other modern political systems include juntas or military regimes, tribalism, neo-feudalism (e.g., constitutional monarchy or a dictatorship), and various types of oligarchies (e.g., socialism, fascism, communism, aristocracy, plutocracy or corporatocracy, kleptocracy, and technocracy). Most nations use a combination of political systems. Some nations have more stable political systems, and other nations have more unstable political systems. Here is a brief history of the political turmoil in Ecuador and its various invaders from the Spanish colonial empire to the Zionist US kleptocracy: “The Empire Files: Chevron vs. the Amazon - Ending Corporate Tyranny” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJVbeoaEces).
As of now, our real political options are international. The average person’s job has been globalized. We should globalize our leadership or political system, because there exists real competition or truly different solutions. Each nation’s leadership talks about serving the general public, but, that’s just sweet talk to sedate the masses. In reality, the leadership primarily cares about itself. The leadership’s honorary servants are a distant second place. Everyone else is light-years away.
If humanity wants to greatly advance forward, then we need humane and scientific tests to create a political system that truly sustains or improves the quality-of-lives of different communities. We need a lot less one-size-fits-all solutions and a lot more customized solutions. We cannot even agree on how to poop.