It may have a silly name, but this simple device made a significant difference in my bowel health and comfort.

In a TikTok duet video, user @karissaeats is visibly frustrated by a squat toilet, a toilet designed to squatted over rather than sat upon. Dr. Karan Raj explains in the video that this is ...

Researchers found that pedestal toilet bowel movements ... to empty your bowels when you’re squatting compared to sitting. The studies above also support this claim. Still, Farhadi says this ...

A woman fell and got her foot stuck inside a squat toilet in south China after having a bit too much to drink. Family members had to call emergency services on Tuesday morning after trying to free ...

Is the modern toilet at least partly to blame for problems like hemorrhoids and constipation? Some architects and doctors have posited that squatting may be the more natural position for us to do ...

While Americans and other Westerners have always sat on the toilet, people in Asia and Africa squat when they go. In these cultures, people consider squatting to poop a more natural position than ...

Three students from the University of the Arts London—Sam Sheard, Pierre Papet and Victor Johansson—are applying this same line of thinking in their redesign of the modern day toilet.

Vincent Ho does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

So let me say, as someone who recently returned from China, that you should be prepared to (1) carry your own toilet paper and (2) practice your squat. I do not mean those goofy chair-less sits ...