You've Been Pooping All Wrong: Doctor Explains Right Way | Dr. Trisha Pasricha
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Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Are you pooping the right way?
According to gastroenterologist Dr. Trisha Pasricha, 40% of Americans say their bowel habits disrupt their daily lives — and most of us are doing it wrong.
In this episode of The Exam Room Podcast, Chuck Carroll sits down with Dr. Pasricha to discuss constipation, fiber intake, red meat and colorectal cancer risk, detox myths, hemorrhoids, gut-brain science, and how to achieve what she calls "poophoria."
🧠 You'll learn:
• Best ways to sit on the toilet
• How much fiber you actually need
• Why toilet posture matters
• The truth about red meat and colon cancer
• Whether coffee really helps you poop
• Why scrolling on your phone may increase hemorrhoid risk
• How stress affects your gut
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| 0:00.0 | Today, on the exam room. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm a gastroenterologist and I started to have a lot of people, grown adults, come to my |
| 0:12.0 | clinic for some other reason. |
| 0:14.3 | But then they would like kind of like linger by the door and just be like, hey, just wondering, |
| 0:19.0 | like, is my poop normal? |
| 0:21.4 | Like, they just start asking, like, the most basic of questions. |
| 0:24.8 | And it kind of made me take a step back and realize that there's a big gap about how much people know |
| 0:30.2 | about how they're supposed to poop, how their bodies work. |
| 0:33.3 | And we're kind of presuming everyone has it under control. |
| 0:36.0 | But 40% of Americans say that their |
| 0:39.1 | bowel habits disrupt their daily lives. So clearly, it's not under control for a lot of people. |
| 0:45.3 | And so this book, the title of the book, is hoping to engage people in that conversation. |
| 0:59.8 | Welcome to the Exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:04.8 | Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. Hi to the exam roomies listening in Madison, Wisconsin, Santa Barbara, California, and |
| 1:10.7 | Wellington, New Zealand. Wherever you are, |
| 1:13.9 | we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. This is episode 17 of season |
| 1:19.4 | 9, number 716 overall. And today, my friend, we are going to be breaking some potentially |
| 1:26.2 | devastating news news because it |
| 1:28.3 | turns out for your entire life, something that you've been doing so fundamentally is also |
| 1:33.5 | something you've been doing all wrong all these years. |
| 1:39.3 | You, my friend, have been pooping all wrong. |
| 1:42.9 | And my guest today wrote a book about that. Matter of fact, |
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