Can drinking your own urine be good for you?!


Question:

Can drinking your own urine be good for you?

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.


Answers:

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.




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