Drinking piss good for

During his hour ordeal under that boulder, backpacker Aaron Ralston resorted to consuming his own urine in order to stay alive before eventually hacking off his own forearm and escaping. This was an extreme survival case, and pretty much the only time you should even consider drinking from your own spigot. Here's why. Urine is a nitrogen-rich liquid byproduct created by the kidneys—it's the body's primary means of expelling water-soluble chemicals generated through the metabolic process. Urine is actually a secondary waste disposal mechanism. Blood first passes through the liver where where toxins, dead cells, and various waste is removed and eliminated.

Illustration: Eliot Wyatt. It is difficult, as with a lot of the posts, to tell whether this one is sincere. But the vast majority of them seem to be, as do the group's 6, thirsty members. In the Facebook description, the group says that urine therapy UT "opens the doors of your soul, healing every part of your being". UT refers not just to the drinking of one's own piss, but also the bathing in it and its consumption through the nostrils.

Wow, I did not expect to come into work today and write about this one; could drinking your urine actually be good for your health? Essentially, Boy's school of thought is that drinking toxins contained in urine will produce antibodies to fight off future infections and nasties. The practice believes that like cures like. But is there any validity in drinking piss actual piss After all, the point of urinating is to remove toxins that the body can't use to function optimally.

It may seem crazy, but increasing numbers of Hollywood actors, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs top health and wellness experts have mentioned the practice recently although because of how gross it seems, many resist being publicly associated with it. Tim Ferriss, the biohacker and digital marketer, has even dabbled in it. Urine therapy, otherwise known as drinking your own piss, was recommended to me by a few people recently. So I decided to give it a go every day over a period of two weeks. According to Dr.