Gut habits worth changing immediately

"You shouldn't be spending more than five minutes in there at a time,” says Trisha Pasricha, MD, MPH.   A graduate of Harvard College, Pasricha earned her medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her training includes an internal medicine residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and gastroenterology and motility fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital.   Currently, Pasricha is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Institute for Gut-Brain Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an NIH-funded research laboratory at the forefront of gut-brain science. Her book, You've Been Pooping All Wrong, is out now.  00:00 - What actually makes a bowel movement healthy 05:50 - The Bristol Stool Chart explained 08:59 - The case for bidets 12:15 - What hemorrhoids actually are 16:04 - The smartphone-hemorrhoid study 18:37 - Fiber timing & psyllium husk 20:55 - The rise in early-onset colorectal cancer 24:16 - Microbiome testing 27:45 - The future of gut health 28:35 - Why we can't poop when traveling 31:48 - How much gas is actually normal 34:05 - Runners with the runs 37:10 - How to overhaul your gut in 30 days Referenced in the episode:  For more about Pasricha, visit her website: https://www.trishapasricha.com/  Buy Pasricha’s book here: https://a.co/d/0gZZImBR  Smartphone usage on the toilet study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Shop our supplements: https://shop.mindbodygreen.com/ Follow us on Social: Instagram: @mindbodygreen TikTok: @mindbodygreen