As many as 95 percent of urine is water. The 5 percent again is an electrolyte containing chloride, sodium, and potassium. Urine can also carry toxic waste product remaining kidney.
Sodium attracts water from the cell so that if there's too much in the body, then these compounds can cause dehydration. Meanwhile, too much potassium can be tails on heart attacks.
"It's like drinking sea water," said Jeff Giullian, kidney specialist from South Denver Nephrology Associates in Colorado, USA.
Nevertheless, electrolytes such cells is still needed to generate electricity in the body.
In some cultures, urine is consumed. People in the Iberian Peninsula in 50 BC to use it to whiten teeth. In Sanskrit, the term "amaroli" which means "urine therapy".
Some people are also known to use urine to survive when conditions are less water. And Woolley, who trapped for 65 hours under the ruins of the Hotel Montana in Haiti, admitted drinking his own urine.
Bear Grylls, host of TV show Man vs. Wild, mentions drinking urine as a way to survive. Woolley admitted inspired Grylls.
However, Les Stroud, Survivorman show star, said different things. He put the urine into the list of "do not drink". Eating urine when survival will actually worsen the situation.
When a person is less fluid, electrolyte content becomes redundant and also increased the concentration of acid. Drink it will only aggravate the condition.
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