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Sub Atomic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:11 PM
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Urinotherapy: Myth or Miracle?
One newspaper hailed urinotherapy as a universal cure-all that could tackle scores of afflictions, including cancer, snakebites and infertility.

Testimonials to the benefits of urine consumption dominate radio phone-ins and newspaper letters pages.

"I had hemorrhoids for five years and nothing gave me relief. But six months ago, I started drinking half a glass of my urine every morning and I am practically healed," a shopkeeper from the capital, Yaounde, wrote to Le Messager newspaper.

A magistrate said: "For several years I haven't had a hair on my head, but since I started drinking my urine it's started growing again - it's extraordinary."

Omer Otabela telephoned a radio station with his grandmother's story. "When she was bitten by a snake in the fields, she drank her own urine. This slowed down the progress of the venom to her heart until she got to hospital," he said.

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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:13 PM
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1. My breath used to stink like peppermint
now after drinking a half-glass of urine, my breath smells like pee... I'm a new man.

When I see an actual medical trial that says it does something, then I'll believe. Anecdotes are the least reliable form of medial information.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:36 AM
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8. "actual medical trial that says it does something, then I'll believe"
take a placebo, call me in the morning.
peace,
dp
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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:15 PM
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2. "I like to face the day with a piss-stained smile!"
People will believe anything, I swear.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:16 PM
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3. it keeps Alan Colmes looking young and sexy
Hannity's waste products build strong bones and teeth

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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:17 PM
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4. I don't see how this could help you.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't urine just like, water, excess salts and vitamins, and /toxins/?

Like, isn't it all the stuff your body was trying to get out of your bloodstream before you pee?

Ok then...and this makes sense how...
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:20 PM
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5. Actually Tom Leykis did a segment on this about ten years ago
with an wuthor who wrote a book called YOUR OWN PERSONAL MEDICINE.

I am unclear as to the actual benefits and whether or not the risks outweigh them but at the time I came up with a marketing idea for the book.

They could sell phone orders of the book and the first 100 callers could get a mug in the shape of a commode so they could drink "their own personal medicine" out of "their own personal toilet mug"

I don't know why my mind takes me places like that. I sometimes wonder if it is healthy. :shrug:
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:20 PM
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6. Alright!.....this is great news for us Guys.
We're always trying to get "one up" on the women folk.

We can brag "Ha, Ha...I don't need any glass honey, I can just piss right into my mouth!
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zubeneshamali Donating Member (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:22 PM
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7. One question...
"One newspaper hailed urinotherapy as a universal cure-all that could tackle scores of afflictions, including cancer, snakebites and infertility."

Q: Your own or someone else's? :beer:
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