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MaamJay -> RE: watersports.. (3/28/2008 8:08:16 AM)
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Bacteria aren't the major concern with drinking the stuff ... but the fact that it is a WASTE product should be! Urine is made as a way of getting rid of wastes containing nitrogen from the body, that's what urea is. This stuff is toxic ... that's why the body gets rid of it. Your kidneys filter the stuff out of the blood and concentrate it in the urine. Now, if you are routinely drinking your urine OR someone else's, you are putting all this toxic waste into your body and making your poor kidneys work at least twice as hard filtering it all back out again. Add to that, if you have more urea to get rid of, it has to dissolve in more water, so there's a risk of becoming dehydrated too. Now, the process is actually a bit more complicated than that, but that's the gist of it. Which is why, while I love GS ... I restrict imbibing it to a few drops only. I'd feel really bad if My sub died early due to kidney failure!
And certain medications (or the products of their breakdown in the body) ARE released in the urine and some of these can be harmful to someone else if they contact or drink the urine. So it pays to know what someone is taking, and do a bit of research as to the potential dangers of the end products.
Maam Jay aka violet[A]
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