I was watching a documentry on tv and they mentioned that if you drink yur wn urne its good for you and the recommended yu drink roughly a pint a week. Is this true? Or will you get poisened, as urine is your bodies way of flushing out all the bad stuff for you.
2007-07-04 12:32:48 · 15 answers · asked by xsacredflamesx 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
I am not sure how your body would deal with urine taken by your digestive tract, but consider this: Urine is what your kidney's filter OUT of your blood. This includes uric acid. If too much uric acid builds up in your system or if your kidneys don't remove it well enough, it forms uric salts in you joints, usually the feet and ankles. The resulting medical condition is called Gout.
The only people I have ever heard of that drank their own urine was trapped miners. That might have given them enough fluids to survive until rescued. Other than that, I don't hardly think any good would come of it.
However, you can drink all you want and then report back to us.
2007-07-04 12:49:33 · answer #1 · answered by plezurgui 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell no! Drinking your own urine is NOT good for you whatever the crazy people who made the documentary say. Urine is all the leftover stuff that your body doesn' t want. You probably won't get poisoned because your body can clean all the urine away, unless you drink a lot of it or if you have been eating some poisonous food where the poison has been secreted out in to urine.
2007-07-04 12:43:39 · answer #2 · answered by 3nathn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
UR not gaundi or however you spell his name. Im a nurse and I can tell you that drinking urine serves absolutely no purpose. These wierd health freaks have went to far. I am in shape, I work out, my cholesterol and blood sugar are good, ive never drank urine. The whole purpose of your kidneys is to excrete whats not needed. would you eat bm? no, no matter what someone told you right? ugh,ugh,ugh.
2007-07-04 12:40:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Urine is sterile and can be drunk as a last resort, say if you were stranded in a desert with no water. However, nobody in their right mind is ever going to recommend drinking it for fun or for health.
2007-07-04 12:36:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah.... only if you are stranded in a desert or on an island! It can save your life, I believe, if you have no fresh water or any other available drinking source. I know the sailors from The Commerce drank their own urine.
2007-07-04 12:43:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I dun think drinking your own urine will be good for yourself. Urine is mostly waste products from our bodies so how could it be good for our body.
2007-07-04 19:14:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not true, do not try it. Drinking your urine can killl you and should only be done if you are stranded in the desert with absolutley no water. Do not do it.
2007-07-04 12:36:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You've been watching too much CSI (I forget if it was the original, or CSI: Miami) - there was an episode where two seperate (unrelated) deaths came from two women who had visited a clinic that specialized in this sort of "treatment" ;);)
2007-07-04 12:48:04 · answer #8 · answered by kr_toronto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not true at all, it is toxic..However, if you trapt in the desert, you can drink your own urine about three cycles (times) to keep from dehydrating. But, it's best not to.
2007-07-04 12:37:11 · answer #9 · answered by crknapp79 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you not seen Jackass where they make and eat the "Yellow Sno-cone"? Eww! If you want to drink something healthy, try a V-8 or cranberry juice.
2007-07-04 12:36:58 · answer #10 · answered by Fashionista-Sloanie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋