Is drinking urine healthy? What would happen?

[mezeb40]

I have heard that it is healthy to drink some of your own urine every day. Apparently its an idea from India practised by Ghandi,Nehru among others.Is this a myth? Whats would happen if you did.

 

[NeedBioInfo]

I think urine is used in antiseptics sometimes

 

[arildno]

Drinking carrot juice is also said to improve your health. That doesn't make it taste any good, though.

 

[cronxeh]

Well in a healthy individual, the urine is sterile and acidic. I guess you could use it as a mouthwash

 

[Moonbear]

Urine contains your body's waste products. Why would you want to reingest that? It makes no sense.

 

[cronxeh]

Little makes sense to someone on the fly agaric

 

[Lisa!]

Who's told you that? By the way, I think even if it was true, no one ...

 

[somasimple]

That's true, alas!

http://skepdic.com/urine.html

 

[Lisa!]

Very interesting article! Thank you very much. But hey how can we make sure it's not a practical joke? Anyway I'm not going to...

Many advocates claim that urine is a panacea. There is practically nothing it won't cure... It is said to deter againg and is helpful with AIDS, allergies,

With such wondrous properties, it is amazing that science bothered developing medicine when it had the key to good health already in the bottle, so to speak. Each of us is a walking pharmacopoeia.

PS: I'm afraid but I couldn't use tongue smilies in this post.

 

[iansmith]

I think the last paragraph sums that urine is not the best way to get a healthy drink

For most people most of the time, one's own urine is not likely to be harmful. However, it is not likely to be healthful or useful except for those rare occasions when one is buried beneath a building or lost at sea for a week or two. In such situations drinking one's own urine might be the difference between life and death. As a daily tonic, there are much tastier ways to introduce healthful products into one's blood stream.

 

[Genecks]

People in foreign underdevelped worlds are idiots when it comes to science, however I admire their faith and culture.

 

[Lisa!]

Again generalization!

I think the last paragraph sums that urine is not the best way to get a healthy drink

Let's be hopeful everyone get into the last paragraph. Some people get too excited when it comes to healthy drink and panacea that they immediately want to give it a try!