Let’s get this out of the way upfront: Plenty of people use portable devices — phones, chiefly, but also mobile gaming consoles like the Nintendo Switch and the Steam Deck — while on the toilet.“Marvel Snap is the best game to play on the toilet currently,” tweeted popular streamer and content creator Saqib “Lirik” Zahid to his almost 650,000 followers.“Your body can start to not recognize those signals as well, so it can lead to constipation if you’re sitting for prolonged periods of time on the toilet without actually having a bowel movement.” This risk, Raj noted, is more likely to be one of many factors in issues like constipation, rather than the driving force.“I just think generally speaking, if you’re on the toilet having a bowel movement or trying to have a movement, you shouldn’t be using your fingers on anything else.” If you’re staying within healthy time limits and — crucially — always maintaining good personal hygiene, your behavior probably doesn’t need to change.And so one of the important things to do with this problem, just like any distractions, is to ask ourselves: What am I escaping when I go to the bathroom for 30 minutes?"