Is it safe to drink urine?

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Drinking urine is a culture for some people for centuries. Does that mean urine safe to drink? As many as 95 percent of urine is water, 5 percent more are electrolytes containing chloride, sodium, and potassium. Urine can also bring the remaining toxic waste the kidney.

Sodium draws water from the cell, so that too many of these compounds in the body can cause dehydration. Meanwhile, too much potassium could tails on heart attacks. A kidney specialist from South Denver Nephrology Associates in Colorado, United States, Jeff Giullian said that the urine was similar to water such as seawater.

Nevertheless, such electrolytes are still needed for generating electric cell in the body. In some cultures, urine is consumed. The Communities in Iberian Peninsula using urine to whiten teeth 50 years before Christ. In Sanskrit, the term “amaroli” which means “urine therapy”?

Some people are also known to use urine to survive on less water conditions. And Woolley that trapped for 65 hours under the rubble of the Hotel Montana in Haiti admitted to drinking his own urine. Bear Grylls, host of TV show Man vs. Wild, said drinking his own urine as a way to survive – Woolley admitted inspired Grylls.

When a person is less fluid, electrolyte content becomes excessive and acid concentration also increased. Drink it will only aggravate the condition.