Drinking your own urine for health benifits

PeterJC! · 07-04-2013 09:15PM

kjl wrote: »

Ok so I just came accross this and think it's a little weird.

They say that drinking ones urine can help with illnesses and that humans should be drinking about 2 cups a day

http://health.amuchbetterway.com/uri...fits-and-uses/

There is also a claim that the reason this is not more well know is because drug companies don't want you to have access to a free source of medicine.

I think the idea of not drinking urine is so ingrained into our system from society that people would not be able to convert, even if it was found to have extreme health benefits.

Surely it's obvious; the body has already filtered out all the available nutrients in your urine.

Why would you drink something that has absolutely no nutritional benifit to you whatsoever, for health?

And it's gross.

Jules_G · 07-04-2013 09:25PM

Tell me this
Men can't wee into a big toilet bowl with out missing, so how the hell will they manage to wee into a cup or a bottle?

Dr conrad murray · 07-04-2013 10:20PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK3LduV4-tg

Capt'n Midnight · 07-04-2013 10:33PM

The rationale behind urine therapy is quite simple and persuasive. Urine is believed to be a byproduct of blood filtration. It is NOT excess water that is released by the body. When blood filled with nutrients pass through the liver, the toxins are filtered out and are excreted as solid waste. The purified blood then travels to the kidney where excess nutrients are eliminated from the body. The medical name of urine is Plasma Ultrafiltrate. 95% of this liquid is water and the rest is a mixture of nutrients, urea, minerals, enzymes, antibodies and hormones.

It's not persuasive.

If you have more than trace amounts of enzymes, antibodies ,hormones or any large molecules in your urine then you need to visit a Doctor. If your urine tastes sweet then you're probably diabetic.

The only thing nutritional would be the minerals like salt and even then having too little salt isn't a common problem these days.

So unless I'm missing something then the disadvantages out weight the advantages.

Suryavarman · 07-04-2013 11:23PM

If someone in your house threw out old clothes, would you wash those clothes and put them back in their wardrobe? If no, why would you do the similar thing to your body? Urine is a form of body waste.

EoghanIRL · 07-04-2013 11:56PM

Bear grylls is that you ?

spankysue · 08-04-2013 12:26AM

The only way I could see drinking your own piss to be any use would be if you needed to get the taste of sh1t out of your mouth :pac:

suicide_circus · 08-04-2013 12:46AM

Tubgirl was years ahead of her time.

WoollyRedHat · 08-04-2013 12:52AM

Jules_G wrote: »

Tell me this
Men can't wee into a big toilet bowl with out missing, so how the hell will they manage to wee into a cup or a bottle?

Speak for yourself! I pee into the toilet bowl/ urinal with perfect accuracy... I even do a few wee tricks as well.

yohan the great · 08-04-2013 01:12AM

The great patches o Houlihan once said," necessary? Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No. But I do it anyway cos its sterile and I like the taste"

Allyall · 08-04-2013 01:12AM

Would i get drunk again for free?

WilyCoyote · 08-04-2013 01:24AM

Why not become an autocoprophagiac as well? Just put the two in the blender with some Angostura Bitters and Bob's your uncle.

jigglypuffstuff · 08-04-2013 01:54AM

drinking piss for excess nutrients haha truly disgusting. Is this some twisted form of recycling?

why not just eat your own sh*t too??

Wattle · 08-04-2013 02:17AM

I'd consider it if I could flavour my p1ss with sugar or something. On it's own I'd say it tastes pretty disgusting.

Amprodude · 08-04-2013 02:19AM

I'd say some of the alcohol served in some pubs in Ireland would qualify as piss and it wouldn't be giving you any health benefits.

kjl · 08-04-2013 03:51AM

pone2012 wrote: »

drinking piss for excess nutrients haha truly disgusting. Is this some twisted form of recycling?

why not just eat your own sh*t too??

read the article, feces is waste. Urine is full of nutrients. Ancient civilisation have such as the Egyptians have done it.

mickgotsick · 08-04-2013 03:57AM

I feel the urge to blast everyone here with nutrients.

schnitzelEater · 08-04-2013 06:59AM

Try diluting it with Ribena or Kia Ora. Delicious.

Grayson · 08-04-2013 07:43AM

kjl wrote: »

read the article, feces is waste. Urine is full of nutrients. Ancient civilisation have such as the Egyptians have done it.

But they also practiced incest.

not yet · 08-04-2013 08:07AM

Would you not be better off just drinking a pint of bud.....

DrumSteve · 08-04-2013 10:16AM

Blast it with piss?

Autonomous Cowherd · 08-04-2013 10:51AM

Here I go..getting meself in trouble ..again.

But first, ye are all flipping hilarious...no seriously....hilarious.:)

okay. deep breath.

Drinking Urine is an age old tribal medicine. Every culture knew it and used it. In the Vedas it is known as Amaroli - the nectar of immortality and there's even a sweet text written on it called 'Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi' telling how Shiva maintains his devastating good looks and eternal health by means of a drop of the quare stuff.

Moving many millennia forwards in time we find a certain Dr. William Armstrong who was a naturopath and who wrote a treatise called ''The Water of Life'', documenting cures he had obtained for everything from Cancer to Leprosy. As it happens there was some interest shown prior to World war 2 in financing studies into the efficacy of urine as a treatment, but then war led to the widespread development of antibiotics and all funds headed that way. After all drinking ''the waters of thine own cistern'' has one major disadvantage for pharmaceutical companies - your Pee is Free.

A very much more recent book on the subject - which makes delightful and informative reading is ''The Golden Fountain'' by Koen van der Kroon. He is a perky chappy who puts together a great deal of convincing evidence that there is much merit in the treatment of disease with auto-urine therapy.

As it happens elements of urine are already harvested and used as medicine - Urinokase is harvested from urine collected in the USA as an anti-clotting agents. Some cosmetic companies keep stables of mares for the potent urea and allantoin that is in their urine and which has skin healing properties. Babies operated on in the womb show much less scarring than post-birth operations - this is because amniotic fluid is mostly urine. Before you turn up your nose at pee, please note that you floated in it happily for the first 9 months of your life.

Many cancer-inhibiting factors are being discovered in urine.For example, Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Gyorgi, has isolated a substance in urine called 3-methyl-glyoxal which has been proven to destroy cancer cells.

Among the many theories as to why urine might possibly work as a medicine include reabsorption of hormones and enzymes which are high energy little buggers for the body to make in the first place, thus diverting vital energy in the body towards healing if they are returned. Glutamine, another powerful medicine, is found in good quantities in urine.

Okey dokey I'll leave it at that for the moment. Go ahead, do yer worst....:D

kjl · 08-04-2013 11:17AM

Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »

Here I go..getting meself in trouble ..again.

But first, ye are all flipping hilarious...no seriously....hilarious.:)

okay. deep breath.

Drinking Urine is an age old tribal medicine. Every culture knew it and used it. In the Vedas it is known as Amaroli - the nectar of immortality and there's even a sweet text written on it called 'Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi' telling how Shiva maintains his devastating good looks and eternal health by means of a drop of the quare stuff.

Moving many millennia forwards in time we find a certain Dr. William Armstrong who was a naturopath and who wrote a treatise called ''The Water of Life'', documenting cures he had obtained for everything from Cancer to Leprosy. As it happens there was some interest shown prior to World war 2 in financing studies into the efficacy of urine as a treatment, but then war led to the widespread development of antibiotics and all funds headed that way. After all drinking ''the waters of thine own cistern'' has one major disadvantage for pharmaceutical companies - your Pee is Free.

A very much more recent book on the subject - which makes delightful and informative reading is ''The Golden Fountain'' by Koen van der Kroon. He is a perky chappy who puts together a great deal of convincing evidence that there is much merit in the treatment of disease with auto-urine therapy.

As it happens elements of urine are already harvested and used as medicine - Urinokase is harvested from urine collected in the USA as an anti-clotting agents. Some cosmetic companies keep stables of mares for the potent urea and allantoin that is in their urine and which has skin healing properties. Babies operated on in the womb show much less scarring than post-birth operations - this is because amniotic fluid is mostly urine. Before you turn up your nose at pee, please note that you floated in it happily for the first 9 months of your life.

Many cancer-inhibiting factors are being discovered in urine.For example, Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Gyorgi, has isolated a substance in urine called 3-methyl-glyoxal which has been proven to destroy cancer cells.

Among the many theories as to why urine might possibly work as a medicine include reabsorption of hormones and enzymes which are high energy little buggers for the body to make in the first place, thus diverting vital energy in the body towards healing if they are returned. Glutamine, another powerful medicine, is found in good quantities in urine.

Okey dokey I'll leave it at that for the moment. Go ahead, do yer worst....:D

That was a well presented argument, anyone who messes with you on here is just a moron. Well done.

ScumLord · 08-04-2013 02:06PM

Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »

Drinking Urine is an age old tribal medicine.

So?

"Age old" and "medicine" rarely combine into something beneficial.

rain on · 08-04-2013 03:18PM

Lyoto Machida does it and he's doing alright for himself healthwise. Ughhhh though

kylith · 08-04-2013 03:34PM

kjl wrote: »

read the article, feces is waste. Urine is full of nutrients. Ancient civilisation have such as the Egyptians have done it.

They also believed that the brain was a mechanism to cool the blood and that memories were stored in the heart. I don't think I'd trust them for medical advice.

Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »

Here I go..getting meself in trouble ..again.

But first, ye are all flipping hilarious...no seriously....hilarious.:)

okay. deep breath.

Drinking Urine is an age old tribal medicine. Every culture knew it and used it. In the Vedas it is known as Amaroli - the nectar of immortality and there's even a sweet text written on it called 'Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi' telling how Shiva maintains his devastating good looks and eternal health by means of a drop of the quare stuff.

Moving many millennia forwards in time we find a certain Dr. William Armstrong who was a naturopath and who wrote a treatise called ''The Water of Life'', documenting cures he had obtained for everything from Cancer to Leprosy. As it happens there was some interest shown prior to World war 2 in financing studies into the efficacy of urine as a treatment, but then war led to the widespread development of antibiotics and all funds headed that way. After all drinking ''the waters of thine own cistern'' has one major disadvantage for pharmaceutical companies - your Pee is Free.

A very much more recent book on the subject - which makes delightful and informative reading is ''The Golden Fountain'' by Koen van der Kroon. He is a perky chappy who puts together a great deal of convincing evidence that there is much merit in the treatment of disease with auto-urine therapy.

As it happens elements of urine are already harvested and used as medicine - Urinokase is harvested from urine collected in the USA as an anti-clotting agents. Some cosmetic companies keep stables of mares for the potent urea and allantoin that is in their urine and which has skin healing properties. Babies operated on in the womb show much less scarring than post-birth operations - this is because amniotic fluid is mostly urine. Before you turn up your nose at pee, please note that you floated in it happily for the first 9 months of your life.

Many cancer-inhibiting factors are being discovered in urine.For example, Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Gyorgi, has isolated a substance in urine called 3-methyl-glyoxal which has been proven to destroy cancer cells.

Among the many theories as to why urine might possibly work as a medicine include reabsorption of hormones and enzymes which are high energy little buggers for the body to make in the first place, thus diverting vital energy in the body towards healing if they are returned. Glutamine, another powerful medicine, is found in good quantities in urine.

Okey dokey I'll leave it at that for the moment. Go ahead, do yer worst....:D

Would love to see some links to those studies please.

ScumLord wrote: »

So?

"Age old" and "medicine" rarely combine into something beneficial.

True. Arsenic and mercury are 'age old' medicines. Doesn't mean they're good for you.

Autonomous Cowherd · 08-04-2013 03:40PM

Just look up the books i quoted..not everything is available transcribed online...

kylith · 08-04-2013 03:48PM

I thought most medical and scientific journals were available online these days.

I don't really trust studies which are only published in books rather than peer-reviewed journals. Claims like these need to be peer reviewed so that other scientists can dissect the claims and verify the results. I could write a book detailing how eating toe-jam will make you immortal, I may even be able to convince some people to give it good reviews, or quote sections of bad reviews out of context to make them sound better on the book sleeve, but it won't make toe-jam any more immortality giving than it already is (0 immortality enhancement).

ScumLord · 08-04-2013 03:52PM

kylith wrote: »

Would love to see some links to those studies please.

I can't seem to find any of the ancient Egyptians research papers. It's most unusual.

Autonomous Cowherd · 08-04-2013 03:52PM

kylith wrote: »

I thought most medical and scientific journals were available online these days.

I don't really trust studies which are only published in books rather than peer-reviewed journals. Claims like these need to be peer reviewed so that other scientists can dissect the claims and verify the results. I could write a book detailing how eating toe-jam will make you immortal, I may even be able to convince some people to give it good reviews, or quote sections of bad reviews out of context to make them sound better on the book sleeve, but it won't make toe-jam any more immortality giving than it already is (0 immortality enhancement).

Fair enough. i'm not here to convince ya

...just pointing out the possibilities ......to keep the grey matter flexible

Drinking your own urine for health benifits

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