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Danielė Šidiškytė

Doctor Settles The Debate On How Often You Should Be Going To The Toilet, And Nobody Needs To Panic

The average person spends about 92 days (nearly 3 months) to 1.5 years sitting on the toilet over their lifetime. But how often are you actually supposed to be visiting the bathroom for the more, shall we say, substantial of life’s necessary functions? Are you doing it too much? Not enough? Is once a day the gold standard, or is that just something you assumed?

Dr. Jen Caudle, a physician with a very engaged TikTok following, decided to settle it once and for all. The answer is going to make a lot of people feel considerably better about their mornings, while others are putting in a rush order for prune juice.

What is a normal toilet schedule for you is cause for concern for someone else, so a doctor is telling us what we should know

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