18 years
The Urine therapy : is it safe ? does it have any benefits ? does it really help in weight loss ?
Aug 22, 2014
Recently, studies were done using stools from healthy people, transplanting them into the intestines of patients with colitis (infection and inflammation of the intestinal tract) caused by a bacteria, Clostridium difficile. This is based on the the fact that the healthy gut contains healthy bacteria (the so called normal flora) that are deficient in patients with Clostridium difficile colitis ; stool transplantion thus re-establishes these populations on good bacteria and treat the infection. So this treatment method has been TESTED and found effective and safe.
Urine contains 2 key components: urokinase, which causes dilatation (enlargement) of blood vessels and is used in cases ofheart aattack and stroke, and infertility treatment ; and urea, used in the world of cosmetics (for acne treatment and other uses). Urine also contains toxins (body wastes). Proponents of urine therapy claim that if you drink your own urine, these toxins will make your intestines increase their activity to flush the toxins out (so it's kind of healthy and may induce weight loss). Also, the urea in the urine I'd absorbed, goes into the liver where it's broken down into a very important amino acid, glutamine, which plays a pivotal role in immune defense against cancerous cells. It all sounds logical and makes drinking urine seem very much plausible. BUT there aren't enough studies on human subjects that have tested this practice, so we don't know if it's safe or effective, and of it happens to be so, we don't know the safe dose and adverse effects.
In a nutshell, there isn't much evidence to support the use of urine for therapeutic purposes.
Urine contains 2 key components: urokinase, which causes dilatation (enlargement) of blood vessels and is used in cases ofheart aattack and stroke, and infertility treatment ; and urea, used in the world of cosmetics (for acne treatment and other uses). Urine also contains toxins (body wastes). Proponents of urine therapy claim that if you drink your own urine, these toxins will make your intestines increase their activity to flush the toxins out (so it's kind of healthy and may induce weight loss). Also, the urea in the urine I'd absorbed, goes into the liver where it's broken down into a very important amino acid, glutamine, which plays a pivotal role in immune defense against cancerous cells. It all sounds logical and makes drinking urine seem very much plausible. BUT there aren't enough studies on human subjects that have tested this practice, so we don't know if it's safe or effective, and of it happens to be so, we don't know the safe dose and adverse effects.
In a nutshell, there isn't much evidence to support the use of urine for therapeutic purposes.
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