Month: October 2022
A brief history of athletes drinking their own urine
Taking the piss: a brief history of athletes drinking their own urine
An NFL player confessed this week to drinking his own urine during the pre-season, but Ben Jones is hardly the first athlete to recycle his bodily fluids
Juan Manuel Marquez famously drank his own urine ahead of his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Photograph: HBO/YouTube
Ben Jones, an offensive lineman with the Houston Texans, made headlines this week when he confessed to drinking a cup of his own urine to win a bet against his team-mates. “We were having a good time, and whatever makes the team better,” the fourth-year center recalled. “I was just enjoying it – and anytime I can get a laugh out of it, I’ll do it.” Naturally.
Jones, who is described by team-mate Charles James as “a pretty nasty guy”, is hardly the first sportsman to find value in recycling his bodily fluids. Yet many of the Alabama native’s predecessors have consumed urine not in search of the anarchic jollity of a sophomoric sight gag, but in fact a competitive edge.
The great Mexican champion Juan Manuel Márquez famously showcased the practice ahead of his 2009 fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. “This is something I have been doing for the past six or seven fights, and it has given me good results,” Marquez, who has held world titles in four weight classes, said during an episode of HBO’s documentary series 24/7. “If you drink or inject yourself with vitamins, you release them every time you go to the bathroom. Why not put them back in your body orally?”
A ringing endorsement it was not – Marquez lost a hugely lopsided decision – but it hasn’t stopped others from giving it a shot. See the mixed martial artist Lyoto Machida, who told a Brazilian magazine that drinking urine was a longstanding family tradition: “My father does that for a long time and bring it to us. People think it’s a joke. I never said it in the United States because I don’t know how the fans will react. I drink my urine every morning like a natural medicine.”
MMA fighter Luke Cummo, who soared to fame after appearing in the second season of The Ultimate Fighter, is another proponent of pee drinking. Notorious on the show for idiosyncrasies such as insisting that his bed point north so that he could align his own energy, or chi, with that of the earth, Cummo also advocated the consumption of his own waste. He reasoned that urine “contains minerals, hormones and elements that bind moisture to protein”, and said that his practice of drinking it was all part of the body’s recycling process. He also insisted the alternative application of human urine is a more common practice than Americans think, a fact to which any regular on Craigslist’s Casual Encounters listings can attest.
Certainly, urophagia, the practice of drinking one’s own urine, also known as urine therapy, has deep roots in other cultures. In 1978, the Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai, a longtime practitioner of urine therapy, spoke to Dan Rather on 60 Minutes about the practice. Desai stated that urine therapy was the perfect medical solution for the millions of Indians who cannot afford medical treatment. According to claims by members of the China Urine Therapy Association, more than 100,000 people in mainland China are current practitioners.
Urine therapy is not limited to merely drinking urine, however. Former MLB standout Moisés Alou, a six-time All-Star and career .303 hitter, revealed that he’d urinate on his hands to toughen them up. Alou, one of the few major leaguers who didn’t wear gloves while batting, was joined by former New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada, who once quipped, “You don’t want to shake my hand during spring training.” Even erstwhile Cubs hurler Kerry Wood mentioned trying the technique to remedy blisters on his pitching hand, although he added that this was as a last resort. “Someone tells you something works,” Wood said, and we are given a brief glimpse into the life of a pro athlete, willing to try anything to gain that edge.
But what are the purported health benefits of urine, which is 95% water but also contains minerals, proteins, vitamins and antibodies? Yoshizo Machida, Lyoto’s father and Japan’s answer to a wrestling dad, contends that ingesting your own urine acts as a “natural medicine” that flushes out the system, aiding in digestion and preventing the build-up of harmful bacteria. Other urine-drinkers swear by its immune system boosting properties and skin-softening abilities.
Still, drinking your urine has no documented benefits. Skeptics say the 5% that isn’t water contains things the body is trying to get rid of. “Think about it like drinking ocean water,” says Jeff Giullian, a nephrologist at South Denver Nephrology Associates in Colorado. “It’s going to dehydrate you and do significantly more harm than good.”
Bear Grylls, the adventurer and host of TV show Man vs Wild, has been filmed several times drinking his own urine in order to avoid dehydration. “Can it save your life?” he asked rhetorically during a recent episode. “Yes, in some situations. Although you read about these people who do it for fun at home. I’m not like that. I’m weird, but I’m not that weird.”
Which more or less settles it. Even if the physiological benefits of Jones’s wee pint are dubious, its value as a comic set piece remains beyond dispute.
Vegetarian Nikola Tesla
North America: early 20th Century
Nikola Tesla (1857-1943)
- Nikola Tesla (1857-1943)(Inventor; too many to list, including AC Current);Source: Any decent biography of Nickola Tesla
The following was sen by Darko Djurdjic, engineer of Geodesy, writing from Republic Srpska, BIH
PRODIGAL GENIUS
The Life of Nikola Tesla by John J. O'Neill (1944)
"With the passing decades, Tesla shifted away from a meat diet. He substituted fish, always boiled, and finally eliminated the meat entirely. He later almost entirely eliminated the fish and lived on a vegetarian diet. Milk was his main standby, and toward the end of his life it was the principal item of diet, served warm. As a youth he drank a great deal of coffee, and, while he gradually became aware that he suffered unfavorable influences from it, he found it a difficult habit to break. When he finally made the decision to drink no more of it, he adhered to his good intentions but was forced to recognize the fact that the desire for it remained. He combated this by ordering with each meal a pot of his favorite coffee, and having a cup of it poured so that he would get the aroma. It required ten years for the aroma of the coffee to transform itself into a nuisance so that he felt secure in no longer having it served. Tea and cocoa he also considered injurious. He was a heavy smoker in his youth, mostly of cigars. A sister who seemed fatally ill, when he was in his early twenties, said she would try to get better if he would give up smoking. He did so immediately. His sister recovered, and he never smoked again."
A MACHINE TO END WAR
Liberty, February 1937 by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck
"MORE people die or grow sick from polluted water than from coffee, tea, tobacco, and other stimulants. I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. I am convinced that within a century coffee, tea, and tobacco will be no longer in vogue. Alcohol, however, will still be used. It is not a stimulant but a veritable elixir of life. The abolition of stimulants will not come about forcibly. It will simply be no longer fashionable to poison the system with harmful ingredients. Bernarr Macfadden has shown how it is possible to provide palatable food based upon natural products such as milk, honey, and wheat. I believe that the food which is served today in his penny restaurants will be the basis of epicurean meals in the smartest banquet halls of the twenty-first century. There will be enough wheat and wheat products to feed the entire world, including the teeming millions of China and India, now chronically on the verge of starvation. The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900."
THE PROBLEM OF INCREASING HUMAN ENERGY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCES TO THE HARNESSING OF THE SUN'S ENERGY.
by Nikola Tesla, Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900
"A thousand other evils might be mentioned, but all put together, in their bearing upon the problem under discussion, they could not equal a single one, the want of food, brought on by poverty, destitution, and famine. Millions of individuals die yearly for want of food, thus keeping down the mass. Even in our enlightened communities, and not withstanding the many charitable efforts, this is still, in all probability, the chief evil. I do not mean here absolute want of food, but want of healthful nutriment. How to provide good and plentiful food is, therefore, a most important question of the day. On the general principles the raising of cattle as a means of providing food is objectionable, because, in the sense interpreted above, it must undoubtedly tend to the addition of mass of a "smaller velocity." It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think, therefore, that vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarious habit. That we can subsist on plant food and perform our work even to advantage is not a theory, but a well-demonstrated fact. Many races living almost exclusively on vegetables are of superior physique and strength. There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. In view of these facts every effort should be made to stop the wanton and cruel slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals. To free ourselves from animal instincts and appetites, which keep us down, we should begin at the very root from which we spring: we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food. There seems to be no philosophical necessity for food. We can conceive of organized beings living without nourishment, and deriving all the energy they need for the performance of their lifefunctions from the ambient medium. In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being."
SPEECH ON BEHALF EDISON MEDAL PRIZE
A speech delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
May 18, 1917.
"On this occasion, you might want me to say something of a personal and more intimate character bearing on my work. One of the speakers suggested: "Tell us something about yourself, about your early struggles." If I am not mistaken in this surmise I will, with your approval, dwell briefly on this rather delicate subject. I may say, also, that I am deeply religious at heart, although not in the Orthodox meaning, and that I give myself to the constant enjoyment of belleving that the greatest mysteries of our being are still to be fathomed and that, all the evidence of the senses and the teachings of exact and dry sciences to the contrary notwithstanding, death itself may not be the termination of the wonderful metamorphoses we witness. In this way I have managed to maintain an undisturbed peace of mind, to make myself proof against adversity, and to achieve contentment and happiness to a point of extracting some satisfaction even from the darker side of life, the trials and tribulations of existence. I have fame and untold wealth, more than all this, and yet - how many articles have been written in which I was declared to be an impractical unsuccesful man, and how many poor, struggling writers, have called me a visionary. Such is the folly and shortsightedness of the world!"
Fermented Urine: The Buddha’s Medicine
Fermented Urine: The Buddha's Medicine
compiled and annotated by Brother Promise
The Buddha recommended his disciples to use fermented urine as their go-to medicine.
Puti = fermented
Mutta = urine
Bhesajja = medicine
Putimuttabhesajja = Fermented urine as medicine
Though some commentators explained the Pali expression putimuttabhesajja to mean fermented cow's urine, nowhere is the word cow (gavi or go) mentioned in the original texts. Others have explained the word puti to mean "that which is repulsive" and implied that the Buddha recommended fresh urine therapy-- drinking one's own fresh urine "although it is repulsive". But puti clearly means fermented, putrid, decomposing. For instance the word "corpse" in Pali is putikaya, that is a rotten, decomposing body.
https://palidictionary.appspot.com/browse/p/p%C5%ABti
What follows are quotes of the Buddha from the Pali canon, the standard collection of early Buddhist scriptures.
Pūtimuttabhesajjaṁ nissāya pabbajjā tattha te yāvajīvaṁ ussāho karaṇīyo "Going-Forth has fermented urine medicine as its support. For the rest of your life you are to endeavor at that."
Mv.I.77.1
https://www.dhammatalks.org/vinaya/Mv/MvI.html
Note: "Going-Forth" here means becoming a Buddhist monk or nun.
The Buddha taught his monastic disciples to use fermented urine as their go-to medicine.
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"Mendicants, these four trifles are easy to get hold of and are blameless. What four? Rag-robes … A lump of alms-food … Lodgings at the root of a tree … Fermented urine as medicine…"
Anguttara Nikaya 4.27
https://suttacentral.net/an4.27/en/sujato
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“These four, bhikkhus, are trifling things, easily obtained and blameless. What four? A robe made of cast-off rags is a trifling thing, easily obtained and blameless. Food gathered on alms round is a trifling thing, easily obtained and blameless. The root of a tree as a dwelling place is a trifling thing, easily obtained and blameless. Medicine consisting of putrid urine is a trifling thing, easily obtained and blameless. These, bhikkhus, are the four trifling things, easily obtained and blameless. When a bhikkhu is content with these things that are trifling and easily obtained, I say of him that he has the requisites for recluseship.”
Itivuttaka 101
https://suttacentral.net/iti101/en/ireland
Note: "bhikkhus" means beggars / recluses / monks and nuns / monastic disciples of the Buddha.
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"As you live contented your fermented urine as medicine will seem to you like various medicines—ghee, butter, oil, honey, molasses, and salt—seem to a householder or householder’s child. It will be for your enjoyment, relief, and comfort, and to reach [Nirvana]."
Anguttara Nikaya 8.30
https://suttacentral.net/an8.30/en/sujato
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Now at that time a certain monk had jaundice. “I allow you, monks, to make him drink aged urine and yellow myrobalan.”
Theravada Vinayapitaka Khandhaka Mahavagga 6
https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd6/en/horner-brahmali
Note: This medicine is known as the "Buddha's medicine" in Theravadan countries. In Pali:
putimuttabhesajjaharitaka. Puti=fermented. Mutta=urine. Bhesajja=medicine. Haritaka=haritaki,
terminalia chebula [see https://haritaki.org/haritaki-benefits/]
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"Suppose there was some fermented urine mixed with different medicines. Then a man with jaundice would come along. They’d say to him: ‘Here, mister, this is fermented urine mixed with different medicines. Drink it if you like. If you drink it, the color, aroma, and flavor will be unappetizing, but after drinking it you will be happy.’ He wouldn’t reject it. After thinking, he’d drink it. The color, aroma, and flavor would be unappetizing, but after drinking it he would be happy."
Majjhima Nikaya 46
https://suttacentral.net/mn46/en/sujato
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Anyone who makes use of
Leftovers for food,
Putrid urine as medicine,
The root of a tree as lodging,
And rags from the rubbish-heap as robes,
Is at home in any direction.
Theragatha 18.1
https://suttacentral.net/thag18.1/en/sujato-walton
Note: This passage is attributed to MahaKassapa, one of the Buddha's senior and most accomplished
disciples, who was known for his asceticism, health and longevity.
A Urine Therapy Testimony: Liver Cancer and Piles Gone! Trans. Dr. Chapman Chen
尿療見證:肝癌痔瘡不見了!印度名醫著。曾焯文博士譯介
Loose Women’s Nadia Sawalha drank her own URINE on television!
Loose Women’s Nadia Sawalha drank her own URINE on television!
Yes, really!
On the ITV daytime show, the panellist were discussing the new trend Urine Therapy. It has been reported that by drinking your own urine it will detox your entire and cure it of any illnesses.
So Nadia decided to take it upon herself to try it out... of course, she made her producer do it first though.
Speaking about the new trend, Nadia said: "My sister's friend gargles with it [urine] whenever she gets a sore throat and she never uses antibiotics. My sister puts it on her wrinkles."
When Andrea McLean asked her co-star if she's try it out, the 53-year-old star admitted: "We do get asked to reveal a lot and talk a lot and do all sorts of things by our producers and so I said I'd do it if Ashley [their producer] does and he said he would.
"He never imagined I'd make him do it."
After their producer downed his shot of urine, Nadia went on to do it also and it's safe to say that some viewers (along with the presenters) were horrified. One person tweeted: "Loose Women has reached a new low.. drinking their own urine on daytime telly #LooseWomen"
Another commented: "Day three of being snowed in and I have just watched The Loose Women drinking shots of urine live on television #ytho"
Loose Women Nadia Sawalha drinks urine - STACKED
Someone else said: "I don’t need to watch people drinking their own urine while I’m eating my lunch thank you very much #LooseWomen"
A fourth wrote: "I nearly gagged on Nadia doing that live on air #LooseWomen"
One more added: "Sick in my mouth @nadiasawalha drinking urine live on air @loosewomen 😷😷😷😷😷😷 "
Eek!
WATCH: The moment Nadia Sawalha drinks her own urine on Loose Women
“It’s like bitter green tea” Emilia Fox discusses drinking her own urine on This Morning
"It's like bitter green tea" Emilia Fox discusses drinking her own urine on This Morning
WHILE some of her fellow Bear Grylls: Mission Survive contestants were left vomiting after drinking their own urine recently, Emilia Fox likened the taste to green tea today.
Emilia Fox opened up about her time on Bear Grylls' Mission Survive today on This Morning
The actress said her time in Costa Rica was amazing despite it being both physically and emotionally exhausting, during an interview on This Morning.
When asked why she took part, prior to being eliminated last week, the 40-year-old said: "It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. The idea of going to the Costa Rican rainforest and learning some amazing skills, I found really attractive."
And when it came to drinking urine, the Silent Witness beauty said it was just mind over matter.
"I just didn’t think about it too much. I just did it. And actually drinking your own wee, it's like drinking bitter, green tea. Tom [Rosenthal] and I just had a laugh."
The actress said the tasks on the ITV show was mind over matter
Emilia's cousin Lawrence, who also joined her on the ITV show, got trench foot as a result of the constant rain and soaking wet conditions.
When questioned about the actor, she said: "They are fine now I'm pleased to say. The night he got hyperthermia and hyperglycaemia was horrific. He was completely delirious.
"I felt so responsible to Bill and his boys. At the end of the day it is a TV show, but that is real life and it was horrible to see him like that."
The British star was also launching her Think Infrared Defence campaign today, to encourage the nation to be more aware of how the sun’s rays can damage your skin.
The Silent Witness star said she was very worried about her cousin Lawrence when he fell ill
Emilia also launched her Think Infrared Defence campaign
Speaking about the cause, Emilia said: "I have very fair skin and I have a lot of moles. I had to have a mole removed from my shoulder a few years ago… it did turn out to be benign.
"It has made me extremely conscious of how damaging the sun can be and how important it is to invest in the best sun protection. This research shows that people in the UK don’t understand the sun’s damaging rays, so we’re telling people to Think Infrared Defence this summer and to visit ThinkIRD.com to find out how best to protect themselves and their families."
A brief history of athletes drinking their own urine
Taking the piss: a brief history of athletes drinking their own urine
An NFL player confessed this week to drinking his own urine during the pre-season, but Ben Jones is hardly the first athlete to recycle his bodily fluids
Juan Manuel Marquez famously drank his own urine ahead of his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Photograph: HBO/YouTube
Ben Jones, an offensive lineman with the Houston Texans, made headlines this week when he confessed to drinking a cup of his own urine to win a bet against his team-mates. “We were having a good time, and whatever makes the team better,” the fourth-year center recalled. “I was just enjoying it – and anytime I can get a laugh out of it, I’ll do it.” Naturally.
Jones, who is described by team-mate Charles James as “a pretty nasty guy”, is hardly the first sportsman to find value in recycling his bodily fluids. Yet many of the Alabama native’s predecessors have consumed urine not in search of the anarchic jollity of a sophomoric sight gag, but in fact a competitive edge.
The great Mexican champion Juan Manuel Márquez famously showcased the practice ahead of his 2009 fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. “This is something I have been doing for the past six or seven fights, and it has given me good results,” Marquez, who has held world titles in four weight classes, said during an episode of HBO’s documentary series 24/7. “If you drink or inject yourself with vitamins, you release them every time you go to the bathroom. Why not put them back in your body orally?”
A ringing endorsement it was not – Marquez lost a hugely lopsided decision – but it hasn’t stopped others from giving it a shot. See the mixed martial artist Lyoto Machida, who told a Brazilian magazine that drinking urine was a longstanding family tradition: “My father does that for a long time and bring it to us. People think it’s a joke. I never said it in the United States because I don’t know how the fans will react. I drink my urine every morning like a natural medicine.”
MMA fighter Luke Cummo, who soared to fame after appearing in the second season of The Ultimate Fighter, is another proponent of pee drinking. Notorious on the show for idiosyncrasies such as insisting that his bed point north so that he could align his own energy, or chi, with that of the earth, Cummo also advocated the consumption of his own waste. He reasoned that urine “contains minerals, hormones and elements that bind moisture to protein”, and said that his practice of drinking it was all part of the body’s recycling process. He also insisted the alternative application of human urine is a more common practice than Americans think, a fact to which any regular on Craigslist’s Casual Encounters listings can attest.
Certainly, urophagia, the practice of drinking one’s own urine, also known as urine therapy, has deep roots in other cultures. In 1978, the Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai, a longtime practitioner of urine therapy, spoke to Dan Rather on 60 Minutes about the practice. Desai stated that urine therapy was the perfect medical solution for the millions of Indians who cannot afford medical treatment. According to claims by members of the China Urine Therapy Association, more than 100,000 people in mainland China are current practitioners.
Urine therapy is not limited to merely drinking urine, however. Former MLB standout Moisés Alou, a six-time All-Star and career .303 hitter, revealed that he’d urinate on his hands to toughen them up. Alou, one of the few major leaguers who didn’t wear gloves while batting, was joined by former New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada, who once quipped, “You don’t want to shake my hand during spring training.” Even erstwhile Cubs hurler Kerry Wood mentioned trying the technique to remedy blisters on his pitching hand, although he added that this was as a last resort. “Someone tells you something works,” Wood said, and we are given a brief glimpse into the life of a pro athlete, willing to try anything to gain that edge.
But what are the purported health benefits of urine, which is 95% water but also contains minerals, proteins, vitamins and antibodies? Yoshizo Machida, Lyoto’s father and Japan’s answer to a wrestling dad, contends that ingesting your own urine acts as a “natural medicine” that flushes out the system, aiding in digestion and preventing the build-up of harmful bacteria. Other urine-drinkers swear by its immune system boosting properties and skin-softening abilities.
Still, drinking your urine has no documented benefits. Skeptics say the 5% that isn’t water contains things the body is trying to get rid of. “Think about it like drinking ocean water,” says Jeff Giullian, a nephrologist at South Denver Nephrology Associates in Colorado. “It’s going to dehydrate you and do significantly more harm than good.”
Bear Grylls, the adventurer and host of TV show Man vs Wild, has been filmed several times drinking his own urine in order to avoid dehydration. “Can it save your life?” he asked rhetorically during a recent episode. “Yes, in some situations. Although you read about these people who do it for fun at home. I’m not like that. I’m weird, but I’m not that weird.”
Which more or less settles it. Even if the physiological benefits of Jones’s wee pint are dubious, its value as a comic set piece remains beyond dispute.
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Urine Therapy is a Real Thing and So Many People Are Drinking Their Own Pee
We’ve all heard of weird health crazes (drinking your own breast milk, getting a blood facial, eating the placenta) but nothing sounds as vile as pounding down a glass of your own urine. Considered to be alternative medicine, human urine has been used for years in parts of Asia and some claim it can cure ailments, cancer, allergies, and even infections. There are numerous Facebook pages that promote urine therapy and even an entire association (with over 100,000 members or so they say) in China focused on drinking urine.
According to The Pan African Medical Journal, drinking your own urine has been in practice since the Roman Empire then continuing onto the Medieval times. It’s been a practice of survival when fresh water wasn’t accessible. Today, it’s considered a miracle worker.
British naturopath John W. Armstrong is credited as the man to popularize urine therapy in the 20th century. He was first inspired to use human urine to treat stings and toothaches after he read this passage in the bible, “Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.” In 1918 he was prescribing urine therapy to his patients and even published the book, The Water of Life: A treatise on urine therapy which became one of the leading papers in the urine therapy world.
What exactly is urine?
Urine is made up of around 91 to 96% water, with the remaining percentage being salts, ammonia, and bodily waste products your body is ridding itself of. According to WebMD, it’s normal to pee six to eight times a day, sometimes up to ten times if you’ve been drinking liquids all day. Clear and light colored urine indicates you are sufficiently hydrated while golden color urine is a sign of dehydration.
How To Perform Urine Therapy
The Pharmaceutical Journal shares that the usual “prescription” of urine therapy is to drink a cup of mid-stream urine taken from the first pee of the morning. This morning urine is usually the strongest since it has been in your body since the night before. Some urine-drinkers say that symptoms of nausea, headaches, and vomiting are pretty common during the first few days.Sarah Miles, the famous British actress known for her roles in Hope and Glory and The Servant, has publically stated that she has started her morning with a glass of urine for the past 30 years to cure her allergies. Madonna once shared that she peed on her feet in the shower to prevent athlete’s foot.
The benefits of urine therapy are all over the place from curing cancer to boosting your immune system. There is yet to be solid scientific evidence of urine drinking from credible sources but that doesn’t stop people from drinking their own pee. Currently, there are over twenty different urine therapy groups on Facebook, some with thousands of members.
The bottom line: just start your morning with a cup of coffee and a bowl of oatmeal. It’s a lot tastier than re-drinking what you had last night. No list of health benefits could persuade me to drink piss.