OK, I can't stand this thread a minute longer! So I'm going to give you all a little biology 101 lesson whether you like it or not. There is no "poison" in urine naturally. It consists of water, excess sodium, potassium, electrolytes, metabolites, urea, that the body had in excess and was filtered out throught the kidneys. If the person is not healthy as a person with many illnessess seeking a miracle cure may not be, it maycontain bacteria from infections, protein and/or sugar if you are diabetic, hormones, and the byproducts of other drugs the patient is taking. It can even have traces of blood in it. Very serious, especially for a JW. (I'm picturing an upcoming Awake article, "Is urine for true Christians?") So, the less healthy you are, the less likely you have healthy "pure" urine, uncontaminated by these other substances/poisons to drink. So if you are unhealthy you might be better off finding another healthier person's urine to drink than your own.
Of course, this begs the question, why would anyone want to drink urine at all? While urine from a healthy person may not harm you, as some doctors have pointed out, that is not exactly a glowing endorsement for drinking it. There is absolutely nothing in it of any value to the imbiber that the body could not get through some other source, like gatorade! Much more pleasant and comes in many refreshing and delicious flavours like tutti frutti! If your body needed any of the components of the urine, it wouldn't have pissed them out in the first place. Hence the term "waste products".
Now if you are in a life raft, waiting for rescue, or stumbling through the desert having lost your camel, and get severely dehydrated, there could be a case for drinking your urine. You will put back some of the lost water and electrolytes you have been losing. It is not going to dehydrate you faster than drinking nothing. However, it also isn't going to buy you more than an extra day or so either. Here's why. The more dehydrated you get, the less you pee and the more concentrated the pee is. A day or two with no water and you won't be peeing anyway, so you will have nothing to drink! Every batch of pee you do drink until then will have less and less water in it and more and more other stuff you don't want plus taste grosser and grosser. You will probably vomit from the high concentrations of other crud (see above) in the urine, and get more dehydrated from vomiting at that point than you would get hydrated from the urine.
You also sweat out a good portion of the water you drink each day, so you are getting half back (give or take) with every subsequent pee. Bottom line is this, if the rescue boat or camel is a day away, drinking your urine might save your life in this one situation, but if it is a week away, you are toast anyway, and might as well not bother and die with your dignity in tact!
OK, one other thing, the urea in urine is used as a treatment in medicated creams for severe dry cracked skin. It does work. Clinically proven. Recommended by dermatologists everywhere! It's called Uremol cream in Canada. However, there is no need to drink urine to get this wonderful smooth skin. They isolate urea from animal urine (I believe) and put it into a nice cream and a topical application is quite sufficient! I'm not sure if the urea would even be used by the skin if urine was ingested or just get filtered right back out through the kidneys again.
Last, but not least, no scientific studies have ever shown urine to be an effective cancer treatment. However, in Mexico, they will be glad to take your money and give you some urine to drink anyway. If you want to spend your last days on earth drinking your urine in a third world country, that's your choice I guess.
For all you people out there who got sucked into drinking your own urine by dubious doctors with dubious degrees from dubious universities, I have only this to say, in the words of the immortal "Nelson" from "the Simpson's" HAA! HAA! You drank pee!
Cog
