Urine - Drink of the Gods?

[Yared]

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.

Sardonicism WIN.

 

[classical_hero]

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.

Some things take time to build up. You can be doing damage to your body without realising it, until it is too late.

 

[Perfection]

Sorry, I don't take medical advice from hippie sites.

 

[Greizer85]

I've read that if you continue drinking your urine again and again (and presumably nothing else), you'll die from it on the sixth or seventh intake. Luckily I only do it five times each day.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

What does it taste of?

It depends on what you eat/drink !
It can taste very sweet if you eat sweets.

Plus, alcohol and various drugs are eliminated through urine. So this is like a near infinite loop !

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?

It has the same effect if you crystalise it and snort it.

 

[sophie]

I'd say I'd definitely not drink my own urine.

 

[dannyshenanigan]

I do not see any evidence published in any reputable medical journals that says there is any measurable benefit to urine therapy. I'm inclined to believe there are no harmful effects, however. I do not drink urine and I haven't been sick in several years, so I find the op's ancedotal evidence unconvincing.

 

[Onionsoilder]

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.

I think urine is something like 98% water, actually. I don't remember the exact amount, but I do know one survival technique is to make a water trap using urine. Placing it in the sun with a collector over it will evaporate the water, leaving the urea behind but leaving purified, drinkable water.

I do know that drinking water is beneficial to your health, and most people don't get nearly enough. It could be that most of the health benefits from drinking urine could come from the water in the urine, that otherwise people aren't getting enough of... but I would thing the urea would damage the kidneys over time, especially processing and reprocessing all that stuff your body wants to get rid of.

 

[Yared]

I don't think my girlfriend who like it if I started drinking urine.

Females > manliness

 

[MobBoss]

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.

I really have a hard time believing you do this.

 

[Yared]

I don't think my girlfriend would like it if I started drinking urine.

My Female > pathetic attempts at being manly. I think my body does just fine on that front actually.

 

[illram]

I think I'd need a fairly robust scientific consensus before I resorted to giving my mouth a golden shower every morning.

 

[Imrahil91]

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.

Maybe the same way we explain how some hard smokers have never suffered any illness from it. Or that some things simply are harmful only in the long run. Or that when drinking your own damn pee, you're already suffering from something.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Seafood has health benefits, but I find it disgusting.

If urine has heath benefits, I'd find drinking it disgusting.

Therefore. No. I shall not drink/eat anything I find disgusting, regardless of any health benefits involved. You could find health benefits in tripe, and I would still not eat it.

 

[Narz]

Animals drink their urine once in awhile but they don't make a habit of it. I don't doubt it has some benefits under certain situations. Is this a serious thread HK?

 

[Nomnomnom]

Let's just break down what you wrote OP. I should drink my urine which is bodily waste and be healthier for it. Hmmm seems perfectly logical to me...

 

[Birdjaguar]

I am not an advocate of this practice, but here is a web answer to the question:

http://healthlibrary.epnet.com/GetC...d-8fbc-446e-8ae5-03a924025f8c&chunkiid=161688

 

[holy king]

i dont care what orthodox medicine says, it obviously works for me.

 

[Yared]

i dont care what orthodox medicine says, it obviously works for me.

How politically incorrect of you! Surely we must be wimps and weak-willed comformists

 

[holy king]

what the hell has trhis got to do with political correctness?

also, you're not weak willed, just unable to see the merits of 1000s of years old traditional medicine.
this has been around for so long. which it wouldnt have been if there was nothing to it.