Natalie Barr was disgusted by Matt Shirvington’s disturbing confession on Tuesday’s Sunrise.
The former athlete, 45, admitted he was ‘guilty’ in the shower ‘every day’.
“You’re all liars if you’ve never peed in the shower,” he declared to his co-hosts Barr, Edwina Bartholomew and Mark Beretta.
‘Hot water in the shower is my kryptonite. I can pee a hundred times before I get in the shower, and it just happens again.’
Shirvo’s fellow hosts were shocked by the on-air revelation and began asking several intimate questions about his bathing habits.
‘Is that common in your own shower? In your own shower? Real?’ asked a shocked Barr.
‘Stop it! I peed in the shower. I admit it. I don’t need to go into details about how often I do it,” Shrivo replied.
Bartholomew also admitted to peeing in the shower, before asking her colleagues in the studio to raise their hands if they did the same.
Natalie Barr was disgusted by Matt Shirvington’s disturbing confession in the shower, live on air
The topic arose after research showed that peeing in the shower can be bad for women.
An American obstetrician recently went viral and revealed that the act could be harmful to a woman’s gynecological health.
“Urinating while standing can damage your pelvic floor muscles if you build a mental association with running water, causing you to run to the toilet more often,” Bartholomew said.
Meanwhile, urogynecologist Dr. Teresa Irwin took to TikTok in 2022 to share her musings on the subject.
Stating that it is bad for both men and women, she explained that while it does empty the bladder correctly as you stand up, it also trains your brain to release urine every time you hear water flowing.
Speaking on Sunrise on Tuesday morning, the 45-year-old admitted he was guilty of urinating in the shower ‘every day’
“You don’t want to do it all the time because what happens is that every time you hear the sound of water, your bladder wants to pee — because it’s used to hearing the sound of water in the shower,” she explained. .
“So when you wash your hands or do the dishes, your bladder basically drools because it wants to pee.”
Dr. Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas, a pelvic floor therapist from Boston, agreed with Dr. Irwin and described the dangerous side effects that can result from urinating while standing under a stream of water.
“When you pee while the water is running, you create an association in your brain between the sound of running water and having to pee,” she told her 468,000 followers on TikTok in 2021.
Without a strong pelvic floor, this “could potentially lead to leakage problems if you hear running water outside the shower,” she added.
Not to mention people with female anatomy “are not designed to pee standing up.”