Reuters is reporting that three million Chinese drink their own urine because
they believe it is good for their health. They say that urine contains
many active ingredients which strengthen the immune system. I don’t
think I follow the logic. Fecal matter does wonders
for returning
nutrients back into the earth but I don’t want you to sprinkle it
on my breakfast. What am I missing?
"Urine contains no bacterium and is more sanitary than
blood," Yang Liansheng, a professor from the Liaoning
Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was quoted as saying.
An engineer named Zhu Jinfu told the seminar he had been drinking
his own piss since he was 13 and had lived a healthy life for the
last 58 years. Many of his forefathers had also lived to a ripe old
age thanks to urine therapy, he said.
What a price to pay.
What I also don’t understand is how the Chinese can so confidently
attribute healthy living to the piss? I am not a scientists but don’t
you need like a control group? There is no one in a country of a billion
that lives to 101 without drinking piss? What about that white haired
blind dude that you see kicking everyone’s ass on Kung Fu Theater.
Does he drink piss? Maybe he does. Maybe that is why he is always blind.
I always thought you needed one group that you would force feed piss
for like five years and then another group that you leave alone to
help isolate the factors that may contribute to healthy living before
you just conclude…”yeah, it must be the piss.”
Oh well, that is why I am not a scientist, and I am also not a piss
drinker. I am also not Chinese and I am also not a white-haired blind
piss drinking Kung Fu Master.
