Drinking pee?

No and that's gross.

 

It's relatively clean and not exactly lethal, but yeah, no. Your body gets rid of it for a reason. The only situation where you should drink urine is if you have absolutely no options left before drinking contaminated water or dying of dehydration.

 

I just googled it. Apparently it's not too bad? Which is kinda reasonable because there might be excess vitamins. But still way to gross for me

 

Okay, I wouldn't go as far as calling it "healthy" since that would mean promoting it. However, it is sterile, and not necessarily lethal/harmful. People have drank urine to survive in situations where water was unavailable, but that's the only time I'd promote it.

 

I don't know if it's healthy, but I know it's safe.

 

As far as bodily fluids go it is probably the safest, other than sweat. The urine itself is usually mostly sterile (unless you've got a bladder or urinary tract infection) - things can be picked up as it passes out of your body though. And of course while the urine itself may be relatively safe, genitalia can host STIs like HPV, so contact with those is where the risk comes from.

Put it this way: if you're handed a glass of someone's saliva and a glass of someone's urine, the urine is generally going to be safer. But coming into contact with someone's saliva by kissing them is safer than coming into contact with someone's urine by giving them a blowjob.

 

It's gross, but probably won't kill you.

 

I don't know, your body excretes waste, including chemicals, through urine. I can't exactly see how that could be healthy to drink.

 

Only do it if your name is Bear.

 

It's nasty but I heard some people use it to help with their headaches but that is the nastiest thing i ever heard of doing even if it's your own pee

 

I've only heard of it in the context of water sports or golden showers, but not actually drinking, as in, "please, I'll have a glass of piss..."

 

I'd drink my own piss if I was in the middle of a desert dying of dehydration, but that's it. There's no way I'd drink someone else's piss.
I drink about 10 glasses of water a day, so hopefully I won't ever need to. :lol:

 

Urine is drinkable , in fetishes such as omorashi and watersports thats kind of the whole point / not the whole point but it happens . /

Now if that was all you where to drink you would probably die , or at least thats what I recall from a old documentary on strange addictions on youtube . - look up the my strange addiction show and then pee and it will probably come up with the answer to this question . -

 

Biochemically speaking..
Urine contains:

Water
Urea
Salts composed of Sodium, Posassium, Calcium, Chlorine, Fluorine
Creatinine

And various biochemical waste products of cellular metabolism rich in nitrogen such as ammonia and the aforementioned urea.

So, reingesting excreted salts and unusable cellular chemistry bi products is entirely counter to the way your body works.


So to put it bluntly, drinking urine is stupid and unhealthy. It is called a waste product for a reason.

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Actually, drinking your own urine might slake your thirst temporarily but that would up your electrolyte content while eventually losing that water through perspiration and breathing. That would dehydrate you even more.

 

Ok, I study TCM and in general am interested in many kinds of alternative ways so I read about urinotherapy and tried it 4 years ago.
Speaking about the taste, it's the same as with any other body fluids and really depends on one's diet. If you're vegetarian and drink lots of water the urine stays lighter and tastes according what you ate, so it can even taste like fruits. On the other hand, when you eat lots of meat and dairy products the urine's taste is really bad.
I haven't drank urine since then but sometimes gargle with urine or do neti (yoga nasal cleaning) with urine when I feel like start having signs of cold, sore throat and so. Sometimes I use it on my hair. :icon_wink

 

To the people saying ew gross: different strokes for different boats.

And it's not exactly unhealthy, but I'm sure it isn't exactly good for you. As long as it's your own urine, there isn't really a risk.

 

It's supposedly good enough for astronauts onboard the space station. Or did you mean unfiltered?

 

I'll make a mental note. That would have never occured to me :lol: