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What travel teaches you about the human body, with Dr. Jonathan Reisman

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How Did You End Up Being a Water Wiper?

i'm left handed, and so i had that pretty quickly in places like tiland an other parts of asia. The cultural reason why the left hand is sort of taboo is because it is the wiping hand that's right. And creating that taboo is a public health measure in some ways. So after that first got of diarrhoea, where i used toilet paper too many times, and and i, you know, needed something more soothing,. I tried the water reluctantly, and was an instant convert. When i got home, for a bit too, though i did end up getting, i used to toilet paper again.

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