

Picture this: You enter a movie theater. You're so excited to see the movie. But before you even think about locating the exact theater where your movie is playing, you look for the nearest bathroom. Or this: You're about to buy plane tickets for a long overdue vacation somewhere tropical, somewhere exotic, but you wouldn't dare book a window seat. You need the aisle for its easy access to the restroom. And you know not to wing it on road trips, especially after lunch — you always, always hit the bathroom before getting back in the car.
Shocked onlookers filmed the topless pee-pincher, wearing a leather choker around his neck, lurking by open-air toilets in Amsterdam on Sunday. Footage shows him hovering around urinals where he had strategically placed plastic cups to collect urine as others relieved themselves. As they finish up, the straight-faced man springs into action, swooping to collect the cups before someone else moves in. In one stomach-churning moment he knocks back a full pint of yellow liquid after grabbing it from a urinal.
Maybe this comes as a surprise to some people, but you really shouldn't drink your dog's pee. Or anyone's pee, for that matter. Then, with the swagger of someone about to shotgun a beer, she shakes her hair back and drinks the fresh, warm urine. Unfortunately, our protagonist was misled. While there's considerable evidence that urea, a compound that makes up 50 percent of urine solids, is useful in treating skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis, nothing promising shows that drinking it will do anything for your skin or mental health. Still, her belief is understandable: the internet is rife with naturopath blogs promoting the ingestion of pee to cure all kinds of maladies.
During his hour ordeal under that boulder, backpacker Aaron Ralston resorted to consuming his own urine in order to stay alive before eventually hacking off his own forearm and escaping. This was an extreme survival case, and pretty much the only time you should even consider drinking from your own spigot. Here's why. Urine is a nitrogen-rich liquid byproduct created by the kidneys—it's the body's primary means of expelling water-soluble chemicals generated through the metabolic process. Urine is actually a secondary waste disposal mechanism.




Bloke 'caught DRINKING strangers' pee after planting cups in urinals' at festival in Amsterdam
Illustration: Eliot Wyatt. It is difficult, as with a lot of the posts, to tell whether this one is sincere. But the vast majority of them seem to be, as do the group's 6, thirsty members. In the Facebook description, the group says that urine therapy UT "opens the doors of your soul, healing every part of your being". UT refers not just to the drinking of one's own piss, but also the bathing in it and its consumption through the nostrils. There is one enthusiastic member who comments on almost every post; no matter what ailment or what sort of advice is being sought, he doesn't waver: drink urine through your nostrils, he says.



What causes cloudy urine?
Certain people just need to pee more frequently than others. That means always being vaguely stressed about where the closest bathroom is, and spending a lot of time debating whether or not to have another sip of water before getting into bed. The average person pees six or seven times a day , though anywhere between four and ten is considered normal. This can be due to any one of a long list of conditions that affect the urinary tract, from bladder stones to an enlarged prostate to diabetes.





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