Yared
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What doesn't have something to do with political correctness?
The Aztec practised human sacrifice for quite a while too. They obviously thought it was working so they continued. Longevity doesn't have to mean anything really...
Urine - Drink of the Gods?
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What doesn't have something to do with political correctness?
The Aztec practised human sacrifice for quite a while too. They obviously thought it was working so they continued. Longevity doesn't have to mean anything really...
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The only situation in which drinking urine has benefits is in a survivalist situation. In other words when you are confronted witht the choice of drinking your own urine or dying, or drinking your own urine and drinking something worse.
I remember a situation in the Nullabor when I was still in primary school where a father and son were travelling, got lost and ran out of fuel. They survived until rescued the next day - the area being a desert, they needed water pretty regularly - by drinking their radiator water. The survivalists and nutrition experts interviewed on the news all agreed that this was a terrible idea, as radiator water has very unhealthy compounds in it which can kill you quicker than dehydration. The consensus was that they were very lucky not to have died of poisoning and that anyone in a similar situation would be better off drinking their own urine.
I was wondering the same thing.
No it doesn't, you just aren't drinking enough to have negative side-effects. My ex-roommate was something of a survivalist and actually had books specifically devoted to stuff like this, and drinking your own urine in large quantities is most definitely fatal. A little bit a day won't hurt you- we all end up ingesting some of our own urine and faeces daily anyway, by accident - but it also won't help you.
Bleeding patients with leeches, medicinal cannibalism and praying to an invisible person in the sky have all been around for thousands of years as well. Do you honestly believe that longevity implies effectiveness in medicine?
Mise
isle of lucy
Fact: HK drinks his own urine.
Fact: HK is perfectly healthy.
Fact: Many believe that urine is the drink of the Gods.
Who am I to argue with facts?
Fact: HK is perfectly healthy.
Fact: Many believe that urine is the drink of the Gods.
Who am I to argue with facts?
Yared
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Mise
isle of lucy
Yeah, that whole paragraph was terrifying...
How is that?
Fecal matter - and urine, though not as much - gets on your hands no matter how hard you try not to. Mythbusters did a test on toothbrushes to determine if putting them close to the toilet increased the amount of fecal matter on them and actually found that the control toothbrushes, kept in a completely different room, had just as much fecal matter on them as those kept in the bathroom. I've seen similar results in papers I read out of boredom at the university library.
How is that?
Think about it. When you wipe your backside and wash your hand, short of scrubbing your skin off you're not going to get rid of it all. But that's okay, since it's in such small quantities that it can't possibly hurt you. It's not like you're in a German scat porn film and taking a bite out of it.
Also, what else about my paragraph was terrifying, Mise?
Mise
isle of lucy
Lord Baal's scary paragraph said:
He drank himself to death... with his own urine?!?!
Um, no. He moved in with my sister, while my girlfriend moved in here with me.
aimeeandbeatles
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I read they sometimes still do that if the blood is pooled up somewhere. Wikipedia.
I also read that urine is sterile when it comes out but poop isn't.
Narz
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Talking of fecal matter (as if this thread needed to get any more gross) there was some study done IIRC where scientists made B-12 supplements out of the crap of vegans & fed it back to them & their B-12 levels were normalized. The theory being that B-12 is made in the gut but too far down the track to be absorbed or something like that (probably getting it way wrong but B-12 is a real issue). As I've said, mammals including primates will occasionally drink their urine & vegetarian animals like rabbits occasionally nibble at their crap. So there is some evolutionary basis for this practice. Of course simply taking a nutritional supplement is much less icky. And there's the issue that Birdjaguar's article brought up which is that any toxins your body is trying to get rid of will be reabsorbed with urine drinking. We live in an incredibly toxic world nowadays so probably best not to circumvent any elimination channels whatsoever.
As I said in the other (closed) thread, I "took the piss" after consuming mushrooms and it wasn't that bad (probably cause I drink so much water in general) and I might again under those circumstances but I can't imagine any other situation, outside of a survivalist one where I would choose to do it.
As I said in the other (closed) thread, I "took the piss" after consuming mushrooms and it wasn't that bad (probably cause I drink so much water in general) and I might again under those circumstances but I can't imagine any other situation, outside of a survivalist one where I would choose to do it.
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Well, isn't the runs (diarrhea) where you have something bad that it's trying to get rid of?
Sometimes dogs eat their poop. I'm not sure why. I think dogs are omnivores. Cats are carnivores but one time my cat got into some chopped carrots on the counter and ate them all without any ill effect. It wasn't a large amount of carrots, though.
I read somewhere in a biology textbook that in, I think Africa, they sometimes use maggots to eat dead tissue on injuries. And that some people came into the hospital covered in maggots and their wounds were cleaner than the ones without maggots. Has anybody else heard this?
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Sometimes dogs eat their poop. I'm not sure why. I think dogs are omnivores. Cats are carnivores but one time my cat got into some chopped carrots on the counter and ate them all without any ill effect. It wasn't a large amount of carrots, though.
I read somewhere in a biology textbook that in, I think Africa, they sometimes use maggots to eat dead tissue on injuries. And that some people came into the hospital covered in maggots and their wounds were cleaner than the ones without maggots. Has anybody else heard this?
EDIT: Link
Mise
isle of lucy
Dogs eat their poo because their owners discipline them when they poo indoors, so they have this thing about "poo = bad!!! must dispose of evidence before owners find out!!!!! *nomnomnom*"
Zack
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Same reason you eat chocolate. It tastes good.
aimeeandbeatles
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When I was three I ate my poo. I don't remember it tasting so good. (I don't know why I remember this so easily.)
Zack
99% hot gas
I meant dogs think it tastes good. 
aneeshm
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I have no idea why I'm even in this thread but:
Pretty much. I haven't come across a single study validating this. Nor, for that matter, any relevant link to any "ancient Indian" source, either.
Narz
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Why do you hate your people?
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