Urine is medicine?

Is drinking your own urine really good for health as passionate people claim it? A few weeks ago, an English climber named Paul Beck was found exhausted in a mountainous region in Spain, survived by drinking his own urine. "I have to drink five times all to avoid dehydration," he explained.

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Just admit that drinking your urine can be a factor to survive in extreme cases. But is it really beneficial for health?

The cure for urine (I'urinothérapie) has existed since time immemorial. Contrary to popular belief, it is assumed that urine is not a waste of the body but a substance that is filtered out from the blood. Blood contains many nutrients, through the liver the toxins are filtered out. The blood is purified once again through the kidneys where unwanted body compounds are removed. Thus, the affordable ' urine ' is sterilized (stereotyped) (in healthy people), including 90% water and 5% other substances, of which vitamins and minerals are significant. , mineral proteins and other substances (such as urè and uric acid), metabolic processes (metabolesme).

The "believers" of the medical treatment of the urine assessed that the "cocktail" could be cured from colds and cancers, due to energy and stimulation, and sexual enhancement. This treatment is very popular in China, India, Southeast Asia and a part of the eastern coast of the Americas, and people have given daily doses. Urine can also be used in drops, drops in the eyes, in the ears, in mouthwash or in bath water. However, the benefits are not obvious and many experts have been skeptical . So urine really saved the fate of people wandering in the open sea or snowy peaks reasonable?

Experts have reminded that salt, once concentrated, wants to be discharged and requires more water . Thus, it is clear that drinking your urine is not able to compensate for the loss of water but vice versa, also losing water.

'There is no benefit in drinking my urine, I think it is even more harmful' - Dr Helen Andrews of the Association of Hygiene and Eating said - 'Once I drink it, the urine becomes more concentrated. can cause intestinal damage. If someone gets lost in the mountains, for example, the body must keep the water as long as it can. Drinking urine will be considered salty seawater! '

Luong Vinh Khang