Reading all this might make you feel a bit paranoid that every time you hold it in on the train or during a movie you’re doing irreversible damage to your G.I. tract: Staller assures that this is not ...

Holding in your poop when you gotta go is not only uncomfortable, it can also be unhealthy. Just like the famous book says, everyone poops. But let’s be real, going at the office or at bae’s can be ...

Regularly avoiding the urge to go raises the odds you’ll end up dealing with constipation, too. This is because stool becomes ...

A person’s rectum, which is usually around 20 centimeters (cm) long, can hold up to 300 milliliters (mL) of feces before someone typically feels an urge to poop. However, research suggests that the ...