Urinotherapy: Myth or Miracle?

[Sub Atomic]

One newspaper hailed urinotherapy as a universal cure-all that could tackle scores of afflictions, including cancer, snakebites and infertility.

Testimonials to the benefits of urine consumption dominate radio phone-ins and newspaper letters pages.

"I had hemorrhoids for five years and nothing gave me relief. But six months ago, I started drinking half a glass of my urine every morning and I am practically healed," a shopkeeper from the capital, Yaounde, wrote to Le Messager newspaper.

A magistrate said: "For several years I haven't had a hair on my head, but since I started drinking my urine it's started growing again - it's extraordinary."

Omer Otabela telephoned a radio station with his grandmother's story. "When she was bitten by a snake in the fields, she drank her own urine. This slowed down the progress of the venom to her heart until she got to hospital," he said.

There's more here if you're interested.

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. My breath used to stink like peppermint

now after drinking a half-glass of urine, my breath smells like pee... I'm a new man.

When I see an actual medical trial that says it does something, then I'll believe. Anecdotes are the least reliable form of medial information.

[dweller]

8. "actual medical trial that says it does something, then I'll believe"

take a placebo, call me in the morning.
peace,
dp

[grytpype]

2. "I like to face the day with a piss-stained smile!"

People will believe anything, I swear.

[thebigidea]

3. it keeps Alan Colmes looking young and sexy

Hannity's waste products build strong bones and teeth

[LoZoccolo]

4. I don't see how this could help you.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't urine just like, water, excess salts and vitamins, and /toxins/?

Like, isn't it all the stuff your body was trying to get out of your bloodstream before you pee?

Ok then...and this makes sense how...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Actually Tom Leykis did a segment on this about ten years ago

with an wuthor who wrote a book called YOUR OWN PERSONAL MEDICINE.

I am unclear as to the actual benefits and whether or not the risks outweigh them but at the time I came up with a marketing idea for the book.

They could sell phone orders of the book and the first 100 callers could get a mug in the shape of a commode so they could drink "their own personal medicine" out of "their own personal toilet mug"

I don't know why my mind takes me places like that. I sometimes wonder if it is healthy. :shrug:

[BlueJazz]

6. Alright!.....this is great news for us Guys.

We're always trying to get "one up" on the women folk.

We can brag "Ha, Ha...I don't need any glass honey, I can just piss right into my mouth!

[zubeneshamali]

7. One question...

"One newspaper hailed urinotherapy as a universal cure-all that could tackle scores of afflictions, including cancer, snakebites and infertility."

Q: Your own or someone else's? :beer: