I've been on high protein/Atkins style diet for two years - per my medical clinic. I've read all the garbage about not eating meat while on UT and for me it's plain baloney. It's when I go off of the Atkins style and eat carbohydrates that my urine loses it's light, easy taste. I've been doing UT for about three and a half years.
My suggestion is to begin UT slowly and give your body time to adjust. You may have limited diarrhea and other side effects in the beginning but after a week to ten days your urine will smooth out and from there you will be able to tell what adversely effects it just from its taste. It's an excellent form of bio-feedback.
Books? I have several. Two favorites:
1. The Water of Life: A Treatise on Urine Therapy, Armstrong. He's a naturopath who cured everything from cancer to diabetes and loads of stuff in between. It's about UT fasting. The case histories are from the 1920s but are just as applicable today as they were then.
2. The Golden Fountain: The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy by Coen Van Derkroon is a classic and a must read as an excellent introduction.
Your Own Perfect Medicine is a good book if you can get it for free, but it's a waste of money. I don't like Martha Christy's protocol, but you can't deny the results. It's an el cheapo production.
An excellent video is "Urine: Good Health" which is sixty minutes long and has a few testimonials as well as medical doctor comments. It includes a guy with AIDS who went completely off of prescribed meds to drinking pee and his HIV markers went way down, and he felt much better and even gained weight. There's also a bit about a guy who injects urine. Other good points too. I have family who I've told that I'm on UT and by loaning them this video they at least understand what's going on.
It took me a year to take the plunge. I read the books, but the video did it. I'll never quit - the results are just too beneficial.
Best to you in however you do it.
"Is it common to have poor sleep in the early part of UT?"
I have found that if I drink my urine beyond 5 PM that I have difficulty sleeping. From what I've read, that is common. So, I generally don't drink it beyond 3 PM. Why is that so? Don't really know.
"I took 4 or 5 drops of home made homeopathic urine formula I made
late yesterday afternoon. Last night I seemed to feel nauseous and my stomach
was making a few noises. How does the homeopathic drops differ from drinking
urine?"
Don't have any information about homeopathic drops.
"What kind of benefits do you get from UT?"
Well, at the risk of being repetitions: 1) pre-cancer on my scalp disappeared (they had to be burned off prior to UT - every six months for 5 years previously - they completely went away in 8 months, lip pre-cancer too - all verified by a dermatologist); 2) decades fight with athlete's foot ended within 2 weeks, the fungus is in one's blood stream; 3) night blindness ended; 4) can't remember the rest, but there were a few more too.
For me it's so worthwhile that it is permanent.
"Any idea why my urine tasted less bitter today? I'm eating more alkaline foods lately, because therapies that kill of pathogens seem to lower the pH. I know that MMS does. Sorry if I'm asking too many questions."
You're in the early stages of body adjustment to UT, so the taste may change from day to day. Where I'm at is that my diet is quite stable in the types of food the I ingest and therefore (I think) that the taste is consistent. Then when I eat something outside of my normal diet including grains, it changes the taste of the urine. You will soon find that out for yourself.
I convinced my vegan granddaughter to go on a no grain diet and she did. She is not over weight but lost 10 pounds in 5 days with no other changes in life style.
I was six weeks with MMS getting up to 15 drops twice a day. All it got me was fever and the worst head cold I've had in years. MMS is the misrepresented elixir of a guy who's making money off of it. Nobody makes money from UT. As far as killing pathogens, UT has cured cancer including my pre-cancer lesions. It killed my athlete's foot fungus from the inside out - something that was totally unexpected. Armstrong's book shows that it can kill cancer and many other ills as well. So that answer's it for me.
I always catch the 2nd morning void because at the time of the first one I'm still waking up, still adjusting to life. On my 2nd void I fill a cup which measures 1 1/2 measuring cups - so, that's my minimum. Many days that's all I ingest, though there are times I'll drink up to 4 and 5 measuring cups full. During these times it seems to suppress my appetite and give me more energy but my days are structured such that I don't do that very often.