Constipated? LISTEN To This! The Exact Instructions, Supplements, Stretches, Biohacks & Little-Known *Secrets For A Seamless Poop*: Toilet Yoga With Derek Norsworthy
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
My guest on today’s show, Derek Norsworthy, is an author, athlete, songwriter, entrepreneur, and health enthusiast. Most recently, he is the author of Toilet Yoga—a new, unique, and highly practical book that offers innovative techniques for improving bowel movements, featuring strategies I’ve never discussed on the show before.
06:26 - His journey from music and entrepreneurship to overcoming adrenal fatigue and gut issues, inspiring the creation of "Toilet Yoga."
10:22 - Linking adrenal fatigue, mold, heavy metals, and constipation, plus strategies to address these gut health challenges.
16:02 - From a gifted Squatty Potty to insights on primal defecation posture, flawed toilet design, and historical usage.
25:25 - Toilet Yoga: combining breathwork, modified yoga poses, reflexology, and fascia work for optimal digestion and elimination.
43:02 - Using toilet yoga, reflexology, and massage techniques to naturally stimulate bowel movements and support detoxification.
45:44 - Prioritizing daily, complete bowel movements aligned with circadian rhythms for effective detoxification and a refreshed start to the day.
55:38 - Scheduled morning and afternoon bowel movements, plus routines like taking magnesium or stretching, ensure thorough elimination and mental clarity.
1:00:58 - Supporting gut health with toxin-free toilet paper, supplements like TUDCA, enzymes, magnesium, mindful hydration, and detox strategies for overall digestive wellness.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast, dated back in history, |
| 0:06.3 | the toilet was only reserved for kings and cripples. And like anything, we begin to idolize |
| 0:13.7 | kings, and then it becomes part of modern culture. We want to poop like the king. And that's now |
| 0:18.5 | led to a global crisis where things like hemorrhoids, |
| 0:22.2 | colorectal cancer, and so forth, and you can kind of look at charts over time. |
| 0:26.5 | There's a correlation with, you know, colorectal issues and the modern toilet. |
| 0:30.8 | We're in like this hustle culture, rush, rush, rush society where the only time that we ever |
| 0:35.2 | go to the bathroom is when it's like about to be a blowout |
| 0:38.4 | or some type of massive emergent event and we don't facilitate using the restroom what we would |
| 0:45.7 | as you described earlier in a primal setting or you're outside you're squatting down birds are chirping |
| 0:51.4 | sunshining there's trees around So I think we've really kind of |
| 0:54.6 | gotten off track with it. Welcome to The Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal |
| 1:01.7 | trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about helping you discover |
| 1:06.7 | unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond. |
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| 1:57.1 | recognized condition called cellular fragility syndrome. Cellular fragility syndrome. |
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