Urine Therapy by Luke Cichon

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Urine Therapy by Luke Cichon
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Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water
from your own well. The Book of Proverbs 515.

• More than 3 million Chinese drink their own urine
  in the belief it is good for their health,
  according to the Xinhua news agency.

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Urine

• 95 percent water, 2.5 percent urea, 2.5 percent
  mixture of minerals, salts, hormones, and
  enzymes.
• Non-toxic (germ exception.)
• Blood by-product.
• Drugs are made from urine constituents.

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Urine Therapy

• Refers to one of several uses of urine.
• The purpose is the prevention or curing of
  sickness, enhancing beauty, or cleansing the
  bowels.
• Methods include straight and steaming hot, mixed
  with juice, served over fruit, sublingual drops
  mixed with water, urine baths (very popular among
  modern Japanese women), and enemas.
• Nothing it wont cure!

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Some Basic Rules

• Midstream urine is the good stuff.
• Sip like tea, dont drink like water.
• The first flow of the day is the best.
• Urine passed during the night before 3 am should
  not be used.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Avoid salty foods.
• Chinese Association of Urine Therapy warning.
• Diabetics taste better?

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The Origins

• Hindu religious rites, over 4,000 years ago.
• Spread to other regions of the world (especially
  Asia) as well as into modern naturalist
  movements.
• Gift of the Cow healing properties of cow
  dung and urine mentioned in Hindu texts.
• Thailand.
• The Water of Life A Treatise on Urine Therapy by
  John W. Armstrong, 1945.

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The Water of Life

• To resolve life-threatening disease conditions,
  drink every drop of your urine and neither eat
  nor drink anything else until you are completely
  well.
• Deemed successful in cancer, massive infections,
  and heart conditions.
• The 4 Rs Replenishment of vital tissues,
  Reintegration, Refinement, and Re-filtering of
  anti-bodies and other immune substances.

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How do we test this? (Ill take volunteers.)

• Controlled, clinical trials.
• Longitudinal studies (too little control, tons of
  confounding, extraneous variables).
• Ethics questions, volunteers needed.
• Medical community reluctant to trials due to
  basic medical knowledge (i.e. the obvious
  stupidity of the practice is clear to a
  first-year medical student.)
• Long-term use chronic renal failure?

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(Lack of) Evidence

• There is no scientific evidence that shows
  urotherapy to be an effective cancer treatment.
  There is no valid evidence that urine or urea
  administered in any form has any beneficial
  effect for cancer patients. official statement
  by the American Cancer Society.
• No controlled scientific studies proven
  effective. wholehealthmd.com
• Immunity argument invalid.
• Joseph Eldor, M.D. did a ton of research on
  cancer patients, process proved controversial and
  ineffective.
• Theoretical Medicine Journal.
• The Medical Community conspiracy theories of an
  evil empire.

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Why does this practice persist?

• Testimonials.
• Placebo Effect.
• Religious history and connotations.
• Dr. Burzynski.
• Extreme situations given as common examples.
• Family in Egypt.
• Special Forces.

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Conclusion Its just a matter of taste.

• Absolutely no scientific evidence indicating any
  effectiveness whatsoever.
• The lots of nutrients and minerals argument
  wouldnt you rather just take a multi-vitamin?
• Non-toxic but potentially dangerous during
  times of sickness or infection.
• In most instances, drinking urine will neither
  harm you nor help you. Why would you do it?