Never heard of it in the ufc till now lol and i dont think i would ever do it. Although if they said it would make you gain 20 pounds of muscle in a month i would have a fridge full of my own piss.
Urine Trouble Now!
Q: More than one UFC fighter believes that drinking his own urine has a medicinal effect. Is there any truth to this?
A: The idea of drinking your own urine for health benefits is not as insane as it sounds, which is why the UFC fighters you're talking about are hardly alone in their choice of hot beverages.
People have been drinking their own trouser tea for thousands of years. The Bible, in Proverbs 5:15, seems to make a cryptic reference to it: "Drink waters out of thine own cistern." (Okay, it's probably talking about marital fidelity, but it's not like the original author will sit down for an interview.) There's a Sanskrit text that contains no less than 107 verses on the benefits of "pure water or your own urine." And in 1978, Morarji Desai, the prime minister of India, told Dan Rather that urine therapy was the perfect solution for the millions of Indians who can't afford medical care.
Urine is both sterile and devoid of any pathogens, unless you have a kidney or urinary infection. It's 95% water; the rest of it is urea, salt, and dissolved and suspended non-toxic solids. So drinking your own urine is perfectly safe. If you're really, really, tempted, pour some in a glass and give it a try.
Are there any health benefits? No one really knows. Urine contains small amounts of hormones, proteins, and antibodies, which are probably the source of the belief that it has medicinal qualities.
That said, just because we don't have any Western science that supports the health claims doesn't mean there aren't any. For starters, how would you get funding for a study like that? Go to the National Institutes of Health and ask for money to do a clinical trial on urine-based therapies?
Not going to happen.
And even if you found private funding, and by some miracle got approval from the university's human-subjects committee, what would you give the control group? Apple cider vinegar?
Urine Trouble Now!
Q: More than one UFC fighter believes that drinking his own urine has a medicinal effect. Is there any truth to this?
A: The idea of drinking your own urine for health benefits is not as insane as it sounds, which is why the UFC fighters you're talking about are hardly alone in their choice of hot beverages.
People have been drinking their own trouser tea for thousands of years. The Bible, in Proverbs 5:15, seems to make a cryptic reference to it: "Drink waters out of thine own cistern." (Okay, it's probably talking about marital fidelity, but it's not like the original author will sit down for an interview.) There's a Sanskrit text that contains no less than 107 verses on the benefits of "pure water or your own urine." And in 1978, Morarji Desai, the prime minister of India, told Dan Rather that urine therapy was the perfect solution for the millions of Indians who can't afford medical care.
Urine is both sterile and devoid of any pathogens, unless you have a kidney or urinary infection. It's 95% water; the rest of it is urea, salt, and dissolved and suspended non-toxic solids. So drinking your own urine is perfectly safe. If you're really, really, tempted, pour some in a glass and give it a try.
Are there any health benefits? No one really knows. Urine contains small amounts of hormones, proteins, and antibodies, which are probably the source of the belief that it has medicinal qualities.
That said, just because we don't have any Western science that supports the health claims doesn't mean there aren't any. For starters, how would you get funding for a study like that? Go to the National Institutes of Health and ask for money to do a clinical trial on urine-based therapies?
Not going to happen.
And even if you found private funding, and by some miracle got approval from the university's human-subjects committee, what would you give the control group? Apple cider vinegar?
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