Morning pee has a high concentration of melatonin, a pineal hormone that has numerous health benefits. Melatonin in pee is not physiologically active, but it is proposed that the low pH of stomach acid might revert it back into its active form and restore and increase plasma melatonin levels. Melatonin is known as the darkness hormone and is produced naturally while you sleep. If you want to reap the benefits of melatonin, get more sleep.
Bloke ‘caught DRINKING strangers’ pee after planting cups in urinals’ at festival in Amsterdam
Planning A Diet? This Guy Drinks Nothing But His Own Piss - LADbible
Whatever you want to call it, the practice of drinking urine goes back millennia. Known today as urine therapy, urophagia, or urotherapy, the medicinal use of urine is still practiced in some parts of the world. Reports dating back to ancient Rome, Greece, and Egypt suggest that urine therapy has been used to treat everything from acne to cancer. There was a time when doctors tested for diabetes in urine by taste. So, should you be mixing your morning pee into your morning smoothie?
My Month Inside a Group of People Who Drink Their Own Piss
Dave Murphy, 54, from Essex, says that the unusual method has made him feel 'healthier and fitter' than ever before. Yeah, it sounds like something out of the latest Bear Grylls TV show, but this guy is adamant that piss is actually better than food. In fact, for 30 days straight back in , he existed on nothing but piss. Dave in his heavier, pre-piss drinking days.
Shocked onlookers filmed the topless pee-pincher, wearing a leather choker around his neck, lurking by open-air toilets in Amsterdam on Sunday. Footage shows him hovering around urinals where he had strategically placed plastic cups to collect urine as others relieved themselves. As they finish up, the straight-faced man springs into action, swooping to collect the cups before someone else moves in.