The History Behind the ErgoCleanse "Ergonomic" Design
The squatting position is the best for having a bowel movement. Elevate your feet on a footstool in front of the toilet or bend forward so that your abdomen rests against your thighs.
James A. Clifton Center for Digestive Diseases, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Why then do professional colon hydro-therapists have their clients lie flat or recline for colonics?
Why then do all of the colon cleansing systems
that have been available up until now place their users either in a flat or reclining
position?
What prompted the change to sitting upright to eliminate waste instead of continuing to squat as nature intended?
The History of The Toilet
(excerpt)
by Dr. William Welles
It is my sincere belief that one of the bowel's greatest enemies in our civilized society is the ergonomic nightmare called the toilet. "Uncivilized" societies have always squatted. In a natural squatting position, the bowel is supported and aligned by the thighs' contact with the abdominal wall, and many significant health benefits result.
The toilet first became popular in England in approximately 1850, and its use soon spread throughout the civilized world. It spread quickly because it came on the scene at the same time as plumbing, which allowed for clean disposal of what had previously been embarrassingly stored in chamber pots or dumped into the street.
The toilet was originally designed by Joseph Bramah, a cabinet maker, and improved upon by Thomas Crapper, a plumber. These were not men of medicine, and did not recognize the mechanical advantage that squatting offers the body. Nor was the general public aware, which is why using the toilet became the norm before we knew it.
It was not until the early 1900's that wise doctors, faced with dramatically increased incidence of disease, questioned conventions of the time and the convention most suspect was the toilet.
In one book written in 1924 called The Culture of the Abdomen, the author quotes leading medical authorities of the time who were very outspoken about the toilet's faulty design and ensuing health consequences. He states, "It would have been better that the contraption had killed its inventor before he launched it under humanity's buttocks."
There is a Solution
The natural squatting position worked just fine before civilization once again "improved" on what was already perfect. ErgoCleanse returns the user to the correct ergonomic position for evacuation of
the bowels and provides a comfortable way to eliminate the build-up
that civilized eating and civilized sitting has imposed upon the
civilized colon. ErgoCleanse offers a way in this day and age to rectify a medically unsound
technology introduced circa 1850, by a cabinet maker and a plumber.
The ErgoCleanse Difference
Squatting
is
the natural position of elimination. We as a culture are constipated
and have toxic colons not only because our diet is poor and
low in fiber, but because we force ourselves to move our bowels in a
position that is unnatural and restricting to elimination.
The lower bowel, which forms a looped elbow shape, becomes compressed into an acute angle while
sitting on a toilet. This results in the restriction of the flow of the bowel movement
much the same way folding a garden hose stops the flow of water.
The
natural position of elimination opens the angle of the lower bowel to allow
the waste to eliminate quickly and effortlessly. The
squatting position requires holding the weight of the upper body over the knees to balance from falling backward. So it follows
that to sit up with the torso close to the knees is the most effective
position in which to eliminate.
ErgoCleanse places the user in the natural position of elimination: squatting, therefore it is "ergonomically" supportive of the maximum and most comfortable release of waste.
Because of the upright position, ErgoCleanse takes up very little space and is possible to use in the smallest of bathrooms. ErgoCleanse takes only a minute or two to assemble, it's simple to use, easy to clean up,
and takes only minutes to put away making it the most user-friendly colon irrigation system there is.
