health benefits of urine

[SimonM]

I could totally make some sort of comment about Uki's great fondness for watersports here.

Oh wait, I just did.

[uki]

I could totally make some sort of comment about Uki's great fondness for watersports here.

Oh wait, I just did.

hardy har har... this was to be a serious thread yo, now you had to go and ruin it.

synthetically producing urokinase is a muti-billion dollar industry and yet here it is produced naturally in ones own body. just think of all the people who cannot afford the big pharm brands to treat their problems relating to blood clot formations.

[taai gihk yahn]

recently i have been delving into natural remedies that help dissolve blood clots and promote cardiovascular health when i stumbled upon this article... http://www.all-natural.com/urine.html. apparently the kidneys produce an emzyme called urokinase which activates plasminogen directly, which is used to dissolve blood clots in the arteries and veins... unfortunately the only way to naturally ingest this emzyme is by drinking your own urine.

urokinase definition... http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...9955/urokinase

plasminogen definition... http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...03/plasminogen

comments anyone?

the use of urine, either internally or externally, has been documented in various cultures; in Taoist practice, my teacher has mentioned that the "formula" is the urine of a pre-adolescent boy - evidently something to do with it not containing the degree of hormone found later (hey, I don't claim anything, just reporting what I was told); ostensibly this is supposed to be a great "tonic"; others advocate only using one's own urine, not someone else's; personally, although I have never done it, I know of one guy who was a long-time and high-level ba gua practitioner who claimed that he did this on a regular basis; one claim he made was that it helped him one time when he had a tooth go septic and he eschewed the use of anti-biotics, using, as he put it, "formula p" and a combination of herbs such as golden seal, echinacea and myrrh; again, just reporting what I heard, not condoning or condemning either way, just info for the thread;

intuitively, the concept in general does not strike me as inherently implausible - for example, there may be some sort of endocrinological feedback loop associated with ingestion of urine as a way for the system to self-regulate, I don't know - I should get my wife's opinion and do a little Medline research about it perhaps...

[sanjuro_ronin]

*shakes head*
I don't even know where to begin...
First urine, then what?
Eating your own boogers?
Curry layden fecal matter?
Indonesian food ??

[uki]

*shakes head*

atleast you are keeping your neck in shape... unless of course it is just another knee jerk reaction when starting a post you do not agree with, much like davids lol at the end of every post(i imagine this jolly fellow jiggling in his chair).

I don't even know where to begin...

well this and the shaking your head was a start.

First urine, then what?

any suggestions? i am sure our girlfriends might be interested in the nutritional value of the other discharge from ones schlong.

Eating your own boogers?

actually everytime you suck your snot it amounts to eating a booger of sorts...

Curry layden fecal matter?

fecal matter is the bodies real waste... if it weren't the case, we'd have thousands of years of cultural proof that it is beneficial to ones health, yet we do not, most people agree it is simply poop.

Indonesian food ??

are you knocking indonesian food? i must admit that mei fun is not quite the gourmet food of choice, but it's edible nonetheless.

a few more links to the subject...

http://www.heartlandhealing.com/page...apy/index.html

http://www.biocircuits.info/index_fi...inetherapy.htm

http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/urine-therapy

http://www.hps-online.com/hurine3.htm

http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/urine.htm

[uki]

some more info... it seems that drinking urine for health purposes has been practiced for thousands of years...

http://guardians-of-the-earth.blogsp...e-therapy.html

http://yoga.omgyan.com/cure/Urine-Therapy.html

http://www.garynull.com/documents/sp...ne_therapy.htm

http://www.innerself.com/Health/urine.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I7Cj6tRXmE

http://www.detox.net.au/articles/det...-shivambu.html

[RonH]

personally, although I have never done it, I know of one guy who was a long-time and high-level ba gua practitioner who claimed that he did this on a regular basis; one claim he made was that it helped him one time when he had a tooth go septic and he eschewed the use of anti-biotics, using, as he put it, "formula p" and a combination of herbs such as golden seal, echinacea and myrrh; again, just reporting what I heard, not condoning or condemning either way, just info for the thread;

TCM is a prescience, but I shake my head at those that choose it over things modern medicine gives, such as antibiotics.

perhaps modern taboo(most likely due to religious dogma) is a key factor in perpetrating the misinformation? it seems like it is still practiced in certain cultures to this day...

Aside from the smell.

If Lyoto wins, maybe he'll start a trend with UFC fans...

Maybe as a way to keep people from fighting you.

'I'm not stepping into the ring with that git. He's got **** on his breath.'

Premarin is the commercial name for compound drug consisting primarily of conjugated estrogens. Isolated from mare's urine (PREgnant MARes' urINe)

But, at least it's sterilized.

[Raipizo]

well ok maybe it is good for you but think about it it's waste everything bad from whatever you ate or drank all the toxins and everything is in there and your drinking it again? lol

[TenTigers]

Aside from the smell.

especially if they've eaten asparagus.

[Raipizo]

blech thats nasty lol

[AdrianK]

First urine, then what?
Eating your own boogers?
Curry layden fecal matter?
Indonesian food ??

I was actually getting hungry before you mentioned that last one!

[uki]

this is the article that i could not link here because the filter takes out the word p!ss... i never knew p!ss was so offensive to people and this site claims to be hard trained tough martial artists... everyone takes a pee for petes sake. grow some thick skin you wimps.

Contrary to earlier reports, it now appears that troublesome equipment recently installed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to reprocess astronaut urine into drinkable water is still not working. Worried NASA chiefs intend to rush replacement golden-beverage equipment into space on the next shuttle flight.


Aviation Week brings the news that the drum-shaped Urine Processor Assembly (UPA) urinal/watercooler combo unit remains recalcitrant. It seems that the new wave of double-strength space station crews will be dependent on water supplies from the space shuttle to survive until new kit can be fitted.

In theory one might ship up drinking-water supplies aboard Russian Soyuz or European "Jules Verne" supply craft - or indeed the new wave of private-industry vessels, such as tech kingpin Elon Musk's planned "Dragon" capsule. However this would involve more extra weight than one might think, as in fact the current shuttles don't need to carry large amounts of water up with them at present.

Rather, the ISS' water tanks are apparently replenished mainly using water produced as an exhaust product of the shuttles' fuel-cell powered electrical systems, an option which wouldn't be available with other visiting spacecraft.

Av Week quotes Mike Suffredini, NASA ISS chief, as saying that shuttle flights will be essential to prevent an upsetting personal-hygiene and/or refreshments crisis among the new six-person crews unless the UPA and its companion water-harvesting machinery can be got working. As the shuttles are planned to retire next year, this presents something of a watershed in the ISS' history.

However Suffredini says that a new and improved UPA golden-barrel unit will be shipped up to the station on the very next flight, STS-119 by shuttle Discovery, currently subject to unrelated delays. This will allow the planned sampling process - held up by the current, unserviceable drinks dispenser - to proceed and the new era of self-sustaining space explorers to be ushered in.

"We'll have to get more water from the shuttle than we would normally require, but that's not an issue," Suffredini told the magazine.

"We need a little time to sort through the anomalies. We'd like to get the distillation system working and processing all the water we can to save upmass."

There was no word on the proposed fate of the original UPA, said to have cost - along with its companion water-harvesting equipment - $250m to develop. ISS astronauts have in the past shown themselves willing to simply dump surplus equipment into the Earth's atmosphere, regardless of any unpleasant contents. ®

all i can say is... wow... now thats a real waste.

[herb ox]

I was going to chime in with some factoids about urophagia (drinking urine) (like only using the middle 1/3 of the stream - the first 1/3 is contaminated with urethral bacteria and the last 1/3 is concentrated... that's the method for gathering the pre-adolescent urine for medicinal consumption.)...

I was going to chime in with some smart-@$$ remarks, too, but I figured I'd just sit back and enjoy the show ;-)

...and wait for Gene to make a comment... (he's expert on these matters, it seems...)

herb ox

PS don't forget about drinking the urine of certain reindeers

[uki]

...and wait for Gene to make a comment... (he's expert on these matters, it seems...)

i am actually looking forward to it, provided he has not become a victim of being afraid to feed the trolls mentality.

PS don't forget about drinking the urine of certain reindeers.

if this were accepted medicine, the job of actually collecting the fresh urine might rank up there with logging and alaskan crabbing.

[uki]

whoa now... indias new cow urine soft drink? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle5707554.ece