Urine's Sterile. So When Should You Drink It?

yum yum mac and cheese with bugs!

Finally, Nutmeggers are waking up to the health benefits of urine drinking.

Please come to Waterbury--

we know a few variations on the theme, if you know what I mean.

;)

GO HUSKIES!

This is perfect for those choosing a "green" lifestyle. This will require fewer loads in the toilet, so you are saving water. Come on liberals, live what you preach.

Joe Lieberman wrote:

I've been a pee-drinker for many years but in recent years I've really enjoyed reaching out across the aisle to drink plenty of good, wholesome Republican pee - or "Lime Kool-aid" as we like to call it. I swear, John McCain has the best darn tasting pee in the whole GOP - by golly, everyone should try it.

If you want truly good pee, try some Robert Byrd pee. It's from a 90 year old man who has made pee for years - a man who really knows how to make pee. And wait til you try the spicy south of the border taste of illegal alien pee. The Democrats have made lots of that available in this country.

Some loonies just can't keep politics outta harmless information. By the way, some people pay up to $9.99 per lb. for insects. They are called Lobsters. Check your biology books you ignorant conservatives.

I hear if you mix liebermans, mccains and palins pee together it taste like dog pee.

These survivalist skills are certainly timely as our financial system goes down the toilet.

Perhaps the Courant could publish some recipes for barbecued cat or grilled beagle.

I'd especially like a terrier recipe. The neighbor lets theirs out every morning at 6:00 a.m., and he yapyapyaps for an hour until they let him back in. He might be good in a slow cooker with pungent pee sauce.

The Courant just gets worse by the day.

Chewbone wrote:

Some loonies just can't keep politics outta harmless information. By the way, some people pay up to $9.99 per lb. for insects. They are called Lobsters. Check your biology books you ignorant conservatives.

Lobsters - technically not insects, 6 vs. 8 legs(among other differences), but close enough. I've always been fascinated by how much lobsters look like scorpions. Gets me thinking; a bowl of scorpions in peppered butter. Mmmm yummy, with fresh venom for spice.

Journalists, I would really--really--have second-sourced that urine-drinking survival advice before publication. It contains an awful lot of minerals and salt for a hydrating agent. Extensive [anecdotal sea-dog] evidence runs against it. Are you really sure this is life-saving advice? The line between first-amendment freedoms and criminal negligence could get razor-thin, now that your advice is archived on-line and no one says "I guess I read it in a newspaper somewhere once." This is not a joke. If you're wrong, you could kill somebody. They cover that in J-School?

drinking your own urine can end up in organ failure and death due to the 10% of urine that is made up of harsh toxins. Distilling your pee however could work to hydrate you as the 90% of urine is water. Still, horrible journalistic efforts here. Good luck with the lawsuits.

hartfordisadisaster wrote:

The Courant just gets worse by the day.

Agreed. I believe I could have lasted several more decades without seeing this tripe.

If urine is sterile, how can e. coli be present in a urine sample? Might be better to check your facts with another doctor.

The survival stories I read about drinking urine all involved filtering it through dirt.

nowai

Only certain strains of e-coli are bad.

The only thing toxic in ur wee is Urea. But the concentration of it isn't enough to make you sick. It is virtually sterile, and is definitely safe to drink.

Filtering it through dirt is idiotic and you are more likely to pick up all the nasties living in it.

In a slowing economy, this article has merit. I envision Pee-Stands, Gin with a splash of pee, Rachel Ray throwing a splash of pee on salads and a whole host of new products. I'm gonna scrap my idea of same sex wedding toppers and portable schrines for drive-by's with a whole line of yellow products.

"Sorry. We hope you weren't eating breakfast while you were reading this!" - this should be in the beginning of the article, thank you very much ;)

I think we could change the world.

Chewbone wrote:

Some loonies just can't keep politics outta harmless information. By the way, some people pay up to $9.99 per lb. for insects. They are called Lobsters. Check your biology books you ignorant conservatives.

Scorpion-Bowl wrote:

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Lobsters - technically not insects, 6 vs. 8 legs(among other differences), but close enough. I've always been fascinated by how much lobsters look like scorpions. Gets me thinking; a bowl of scorpions in peppered butter. Mmmm yummy, with fresh venom for spice.

Lobsters are crustaceans which are a type of arthropod. Insects are also arthropods, but they are a distinct subphylum. Scorpions are also arthropods, but in the arachnid subphylum.

do a search on urine therapy, urine is sterile, soldiers in vietnam used it to stave off foot funguses by peeing in their boots before going out into the jungle, there are no toxins in urine besides urea, which is not toxic in the small amounts present in urine, so urine is safe to drink. blood is filtered through the liver, which removes the real toxic stuff, and that filtered blood goes through the kidneys, which eliminates excess nutrients and other substances that aren't necessarily harmful, there's just too much of it. the kidneys balance out your blood, they don't detoxify it, that's what the liver does. there are many stories of people being stuck under rubble or out at sea and surviving on their own urine.