The Magical Amount of Time on Toilet

Your toilet time, although peaceful, may be a big risk to your digestive health. The good news is, it's preventable.

Here are the 3 things you need to know to make better bathroom decisions, every time you go:

1. Smartphones are making toilet times longer and more hazardous.

Smartphone use on the toilet was associated with a 46% increased risk of hemorrhoids after adjusting for age, sex, BMI, exercise, straining, and fiber intake (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40901789/).

While it's undeniable that smartphone use on the toilet is a good time, it's also risky over a certain time limit. It gives "doomscrolling" a whole new dimension.

2. Toilet seats aren't a normal chair

Total time sitting in normal conditions isn't correlated to hemorrhoids risk, but toilet time is. Why is that?

Without a full support for your bottom, your pelvic floor. That's the muscle group that holds up your bladder, bowel, and more up. The lack of support puts pressure on those muscles while blood pools.

In other words, you're making the ideal conditions for hemmorhoid development.

3. 5 minutes is the limit

Even though research suggests that under 5 minutes is best, how do you adjust this when you're constipated? When you're sick? That's when Throne works best.

By combining general guidance with your session-specific data, Throne builds a timeline of your bathroom visit and can even tell you when it's time to wrap up based on your last evacuation.

Now, you have everything you need to savor your bathroom time:

• Improve your Bathroom Habits score, every visit
• Get nudges when it's time to wrap up
• Check your long-term trends

That's what Throne is all about.

Launching March 10.