Urine - Drink of the Gods?

[holy king]

Auto-urine therapy is an age-old practice of ancient India. Its practitioners talk of Shivambhu, auspicious water of Lord Shiva, a Hindu god and promote it as an inexpensive way to gain health and vitality. A bit of an oddball, auto-urine therapy (AUT) is gaining popularity to combat a host of illnesses and to maintain good health. It is considered effective in treating a wide array of diseases such as multiple sclerosis, colitis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, hepatitis, pancreatic insufficiency, psoriasis, eczema, diabetes and herpes.

http://www.lifepositive.com/Body/traditional-therapies/urine-therapy.asp

Drinking:
Morning urine is best. Take the middle stream. You can start with a few drops, building up to one glass a day. Good as a tonic, as a preventive and in minor illnesses.

Is it scientific?

Dr B.V. Khare, an allopathic doctor and Mumbai-based follower of AUT, says: "The Italian surgeon Stanislau R. Burzynski, now settled in America, separated anti-neoplastin from human urine and showed remarkable results in the treatment of cancer. Another substance found in large quantities in the urine is called dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). It is a hormone related to testosterone. This, as research showed, has anti-cancer, anti-obesity and anti-aging properties. It has also been found that urea when recycled by ingesting, is converted into essential amino acids."

i've been using this therapy for years now ( 0,3 to 0,5 litres in the morning) and have not been sick ever since.
it really does wonders.
would you do it too?

please dont make this as spammy as the last one, so it doesnt get closed again.
remember, this thread is a suggestion to benefit your health.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Sorry, I save my urine for self defense purposes.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Yet another old habit of mine that has been discovered to have positive effects on my health !

 

[Abaddon]

No...

 

[Mise]

What does it taste of?

 

[holy king]

What does it taste of?

pretty much like it smells.

if you dont take in special foods that give it a distinct taste, that is.

 

[Mise]

I like the idea of all the health benefits, but I don't like the idea of drinking my own urine. Can it be distilled and used as a mixer? Or to turn it into a salt and used in cooking?

 

[holy king]

i guess you could mix it with cocoa.

 

[Lord Gay]

It's been quite awhile since I've read any literature on this, but I seem to recall the consensus being that it wasn't beneficial, and possibly mildly harmful.

You say you've been doing this for years King, and you feel your health has improved noticeably from before? Is it just lack of illness, or something else to which you refer?

 

[holy king]

a lack of illness, yes.
so it clearly works for me.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I believe the ancient Chinese used it. Though they did process the urine before drinking it
IIRC It was only used with clear white urine

 

[nc-1701]

Well urine is the stuff your body has purposefully removed so I really can't see how it would be healthy to put it back in.

 

[holy king]

Urine is not, as many believe, the excess water from food and liquids that goes through the intestines and is ejected from the body as "waste". It is much different and much more. When you eat, the food you ingest is eventually broken down in the stomach and intestines into extremely small molecules. These molecules are absorbed into tiny tubules in the intestinal wall and then pass through these tubes into the blood stream.

The blood circulates throughout your body carrying these food molecules and other nutrients, along with critical immune defense and regulating elements such as red and white blood cells, antibodies, plasma, microscopic proteins, hormones, enzymes, etc., which are all manufactured at different locations in the body.

As the blood circulates, it passes through the liver where toxins are removed and later excreted from the body in the form of solid waste. Eventually, this now purified "cleaned" blood makes its way to the kidneys. When blood enters the kidneys it is filtered through an immensely complex and intricate system of minute tubules called nephron through which the blood is literally "squeezed" at high pressure. This filtering process removes excess amounts of water, salts and other elements in the blood that your body does not need at the time.

These excess elements are collected within the kidney in the form of a purified, sterile, watery solution called urine. Many of the constituents of this filtered watery solution, or urine, are then reabsorbed by the nephron and delivered back into the bloodstream. The remainder of the urine passes out of the kidneys into the bladder and is then excreted from the body.

The function of the kidneys is to keep the various elements in your blood balanced. When your body doesn't need something at a particular time, it is excreted - not because it is toxic or poisonous or bad for the body, but simply because the body does not need that particular element at the time.

Medical researchers have discovered that many of the elements of the blood that are found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and when reintroduced to the body, they boost the body's immune defenses and stimulate healing in a way that nothing else does.

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

I have no idea why I'm even in this thread but:

 

[innonimatu]

The function of the kidneys is to keep the various elements in your blood balanced. When your body doesn't need something at a particular time, it is excreted - not because it is toxic or poisonous or bad for the body, but simply because the body does not need that particular element at the time.

So how do those "medical researchers" explain the deaths of people who suffer from renal failures, then? Why are there millions of people whose lives depend on hemodialysis?

Anything will be toxic or poisonous if in excessive quantities.

Medical researchers have discovered that many of the elements of the blood that are found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and when reintroduced to the body, they boost the body's immune defenses and stimulate healing in a way that nothing else does.

So what if there are reusable salts on urine? There are those too on food!

Witch doctors...

 

[Yared]

Would its effects lessen if I mixed it with some apple juice? Ya know, to make it taste better without it loosing its nice golden hue...

 

[classical_hero]

Surely you are taking the piss. From what I have seen that there is no real benefit of taking your own waste products, since that is the function of the Kidney. Basically you are just keeping things in that the kidney has been trying to get rid of, so it is not really ideal.

 

[Bill3000]

Urea is toxic, not "recycled."

 

[Mise]

If it's toxic, then how do you explain that HK has suffered no ill effects? He is a perfectly healthy individual. Drinking urine has clearly caused no permanent physical or mental damage to HK.

 

[dirtyparrot]

I don't think that urea is toxic (or anything more than very mild toxicity), but I don't think that there's any health benefit in it either. It's simply how the body deals with toxic compounds like ammonia that come from processing things like amino acids. And most people's urine should contain very little salt, water, or nutrients. The nephrons do a good job of reabsorbing those substances.