Re: FINALLY! Re: breast cancer

Yuck. Drinking piss ? I think not, as urine is a waste product. Especially for those attempting to detox themselves. What sense would it make to re-ingest the toxins which the body naturally eliminates ? It is counter to the function of the body. This is the predominant argument urine-imbibing proponents face.

However, this is not to say that there may not be pharmacoactive substances present in urine. But, since the composition of urine depends on what one had ingested recently, then, it would seem superfluos to divorce consideration and proscription of what must first be ingested before the urine becomes suitable to treat a given malady in an individual. Certianly, when one drinks 12 oz of diet coke, the content of their urine is different than when they drink 12 ounces of freshly juiced cilantro, or steak and carrot juice.

Thus, all urine is not equal, and if those promoting this initially-repuslive activity would ever convince a reasonable man to engage in it, would at the very least need to specify the active ingredients purported to be responsible for any alleged therapeutic effect, as well as how to control the presence and relative concentration of same in the urine. Otherwise, the assertion is that all urine is therapeutically equivalent, regardless of what is ingested prior to its elimination. Absent that, one might be tempted to assert that the proponents are just pissing into the wind with their mouth open.

Different people process the same foods differently, viz, after eating beets, about 10% of the population's urine is red. The urine of some who eat asparagus does not carry a stench as that of others does. http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/4/539

Thus, the body is a chemical synthesis machine. If you can determine that eating substance X will cause person Y to urinate a liquid containing Z% of molecule P, which molecule P is of medicinal value, then there may be established a science; but it seems it will take a lot of work to accomplish the task. Realistically, it may be, and probably is, the only efficient way to achieve synthesis of certain molecules. In that regard, it is quite clever. I wouldn't dismiss it, but I wouldn't condone it until clearly convincing evidence is put forth regarding the identiy of specific molecules present, and how to get them in there.





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