Why the best way to empty your bladder is while sitting down


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Scientists have found that sitting down to pee can make it easier for you to empty your bladder faster and more completely. — dpa

AFTER international research last month suggested that the vast majority of men around the world are standing while urinating, one urologist says he believe they’re getting it wrong.

”Sitting is probably the most efficient way of doing it,” Gerald Collins, a consultant urological surgeon at Alexandria hospital in England, told British newspaper The Telegraph in May.

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