If you count yourself among the one in seven UK adults dealing with constipation at the moment, I’m willing to bet the advice you’ve heard so far includes the following: fibre , exercise, and water.

That’s because, well, those three really do help to get things moving.

But there are some lesser-known remedies, too, like chewing gum and “mooing” on the toilet .

And in a recent TikTok , GI surgeon and author Dr Karan Rajan explained that a simple eating change may lead to elite number twos.

Eating with your hands may help you poop better

“If you want to poop better and have better digestion, you need to start doing this,” the doctor began his video, with his hands pinching the contents of a bowl of food.

It’s not that your fingertips “send magic signals” to your digestive s

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