The HealthStep

Minimizes straining during defecation to reduce the risk of bowel herniations and other damage to the lower digestive tract.

The HealthStep is the simple, profound solution for achieving complete elimination. When used with your toilet, the HealthStep allows you to easily achieve the squat position to eliminate waste.

Studies show that using the squat position for elimination is more effective for complete evacuation of waste and toxins. This position helps prevent hemorrhoids and provides relief from bloating and constipation. Complete elimination of waste and toxins, helps you feel healthier, lighter, and more energetic.

How it works
1. Slide your new HealthStep around the base of your toilet, where it stores conveniently until you are ready to use.

2. Sit firmly on your toilet. When ready to use, simply pull out your HealthStep to a comfortable distance.

3. One at a time, place your feet on the footpads. Your feet will not lay flat. With your weight resting slightly on the balls of your feet, you are in the proper position for complete elimination. When using the HealthStep the weight of the body rests on the feet. This opens the muscles of the pelvic area and angles the rectum for the best possible mechanical advantage. This allows for complete and total elimination of waste and toxins. This position also braces the muscles of the abdomen. The extra pressure of the thighs against the abdomen supports the ascending and descending colon, helping to prevent waste from getting stuck in the colon and causing bulges and distortions. Using the HealthStep for elimination, also protects the pelvic nerves by keeping the perineum rigid.

How does the HealthStep help with bloating?
Using the HealthStep for proper elimination helps ensure that your digestive and elimination tract work at their optimal level. When the digestive and elimination tract are working optimally, waste is not left behind. Bloating is reduced.

How does the HealthStep help with constipation?
The HealthStep is the simple, profound solution to achieving the squat position with the modern toilet. The HealthStep puts your body in precise alignment for complete elimination. It helps to open the muscles of the pelvic area, angles the rectum for the best possible mechanical advantage, braces the muscles of the abdomen to supply extra force for the abdominal musculature. This helps to achieve complete elimination.

How does the HealthStep help with hemorrhoids?
The HealthStep is the simple, profound solution to achieving the squat position with the modern toilet. The squat position lessens pressure in the anal and rectal veins thereby removing the stress and strain that can cause hemorrhoids. Also, when one squats to eliminate, it lessens the time one spends sitting on the toilet again, thereby helping to prevent hemorrhoids.

Are my feet supposed to lay flat on the step?
Most people's feet will not lay flat on the footpads. They will be resting slightly on the balls of their feet.

Can everyone use the HealthStep?
The HealthStep is suitable for adults aged 12 and over. Young children should be instructed on the proper use.

I have a custom made toilet; will the HealthStep fit around it?
The HealthStep¥ is designed to be used with just about any toilet. The width of the center opening is 9.5 inches. The HealthStep itself is 16.5"Lx19"Wx8.5"H.

Is the HealthStep safe to stand on?
The HealthStep is not a stepping stool. Do not stand on the HealthStep at anytime. It is designed for you to rest your feet on to achieve the squatting position for elimination.

Do I have to store the HealthStep in the closet?
The HealthStep stores neatly, easily and modestly under your toilet between uses.

Virtually every physician and physiologist who has ever troubled to write on the subject agrees that squatting is the most natural and physiologically sound posture to use for evacuation. This is the conclusion of Professor Alexander Kira, of Cornell University's Center for Housing and Environmental Studies, who conducted a seven-year study of the design of the modern bathroom. His 1976 book, The Bathroom, contains numerous quotations from Western scientists who have deplored the use of the modern commode.2
He quotes Dr. Henry L. Bockus, the author of the standard textbook, Gastro-Enterology:
... The ideal posture for [elimination] is the squatting position, with the thighs flexed upon the abdomen. In this way the capacity of the abdominal cavity is greatly diminished and intra-abdominal pressure is increased, thus encouraging [elimination].1
Dr. Alexander Kira cites an article in the journal American Anthropologist and draws the following conclusion:
We must bear in mind that while we regard the use of the water closet as natural, we represent only a relatively small percentage of the world's population, and a percentage that may be said, in an absolute sense, to be wrong, insofar as we have allowed civilization to interfere with our biological functioning.2

1. Bockus, H.L., Gastro-Enterology, (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1944), Vol. 2, p. 469
2. Kira A. The Bathroom. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, revised edition, pp.115,116.

It just felt better using it. The hemorrhoid actually went away. It hasn't come back. -Writer / Producer

I love the HealthStep. I am planning to recommend it to my friends, especially the one's that are pregnant. It really does make things easier. -Pregnancy Coach

I really was not feeling well before I got it. And now I feel ever so much better. - Social Worker

When I first started using it, I was a little bit skeptical. But right away, I noticed a difference. - Architect

I got much more than I expected with the HealthStep. -Bank Manager

Squatting and using the HealthStep, no more creams, no more ointments. I recommend the HealthStep for everyone. -Retired

Yeah, I recommend the HealthStep to anyone who wants to improve their everyday life cause it's helped me a lot. -Musician

At this point I will not go without the HealthStep. It's been really good to me. -Accountant

Now, the HealthStep is part of my life. You can't take it away from me. -Personal Trainer

I feel like I have completely eliminated. For one of the first times in my adult life. -Physical Therapist

Since I've been squatting with the HealthStep, my energy level has gone up ten fold. I feel great everyday. -Medical Intern