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Can Your Urine Help You? | Pritam Poddar | TEDxAlbany


let’s play a game two truths and one
light
I tell you two things about yourself
that are true and one that is not all
you need to do is guess which one is not
true the first thing you could see in
color when you were born second you
can’t teach anything if your tongue is
dry third you drank your own urine who
thinks they could see in color when they
were born but that’s not true
because human infants can’t see in color
until about five months of age what is
true is that you can’t taste anything if
your tongue is dry
and you drank your own urine now before
you freak out let me tell you how as
medical research has found out the human
fetus floats in the amniotic fluid that
is 75% pure urine as a child in your
mother’s womb you not only did drink
your urine but literally breathe it
urine into your lungs for long periods
of time without which your lungs would
not have developed we were born in our
own urine or urine gave us life and some
people continue to use that even after
they are born the use of urine either
taken internally by drinking or by
application on the surface of the skin
is known as urine therapy people
practice it all over the world to treat
any physical condition or just to
promote good health most people however
are disgusted by the thought of using
their own urine it is interesting that
how we reserve our worst negative
attitudes towards our own biological
substances like sweat semen fingernails
menstrual discharge and no speakings
in fact it is also interesting to see
that our attitudes are either neutral or
positive towards a substances until the
moment they’re cast off from
bodies when they undergo a drastic cruel
transformation children however don’t
find that disgusting when I was about
eight years old we had this long wooden
benches in school shared by two students
the girl beside me had this curious I
would of bringing the stuff out from a
nose and become curious as to how they
would taste so she would put them in her
mouth at other time she would be very
generous and offer them to me I must say
it was a very tempting offer however I
refused children are found to be very
accepting of their biological substance
and often find them pleasurable this
accepting behavior is however changed by
the society and education to its
opposite of disgust and depreciation the
first time I heard about the use of
urine was when I was a child and it was
from my family who were perhaps as
strange as any child it happened when I
cut my leg while playing one day and
everyone in my family came up to me and
told me which doctor I should go to or
which medicine I should apply on that
but my uncle came to me and calmly told
me so next time you cut yourself just go
and pee on it
my ten year old self thought that is the
kind of advice I like however I never
did anything about it because I thought
using my own urine would do me more harm
than if I did nothing I jumped to a
conclusion that my urine was harmful
what I was doing is what psychologists
call fast thinking where we jump to
conclusions an example of fast thinking
can be found in language let’s see how
you read this even though letters are
50% covered you might be reading Union
is good I hope you got that right
because this is what it actually says
this is an example of fast thinking
where we jump to conclusions based on
our experiences biases and preferences
it is very different from the slow mode
of thinking that happens when we sit
down with a pen and paper to analyze a
complex problem there are huge benefits
to both kinds of thinking the problem
however really happens when we use fast
thinking when slow thinking would have
been more appropriate
as I grew up I decided to do some slow
thinking about the advice my uncle had
given me on the use of urine and really
ask myself how can knowing this we
helpful to me
telex Albany organizers speakers and
everyone in the audience throughout this
talk I invite you to ask the same
question to yourself how can knowing
this be helpful to you many people have
found out that when they apply their own
urine to insect bites and stings they
are able to get immediate relief from
the pain they have also found that
applying urine to heal cuts and wounds
due to the urea content in urine is very
helpful if you were in a tropical
country and you got dehydrated due to
the high humidity you would be given a
drink of your own urine as a prick tonic
quite logically to replenish the salts
and water that was lost due to high
humidity my friend Corey was
to lose 40 pounds of weight by injecting
himself with HCG shots that are made
from the urine of pregnant women so what
is urine really an article in the New
York State Journal of Medicine stated
that our urine is a derivative of the
blood whatever it is found in our blood
and our diet was also found in urine our
urines are formed by a teamwork between
the liver and the kidneys whatever we
eat or drink goes into our intestines
and is broken down into small nutrients
and is sent into a blood stream this
blood stream travels through the hepatic
portal vein into our liver the liver
which is the heaviest organ in our body
is the powerhouse of our body
it breaks down those nutrients into
smaller forms of energy that the body
can use and sends them out into the body
and store some of it whatever we eat
however is not useful for the body the
liver takes them out of the blood and
excretes them in the form of solid waste
or poop the blood leaving the liver is
considered to be clean the believer
however does not regulate the amount of
nutrients that go out into the body that
is done by our kidneys if we look
closely at our kidneys it is made up of
millions of tiny units known as nephrons
where the real business of me making
happens each nephron has a glow mineral
sac where a process of filtration
happens where the nutrients are taken
out of our blood
this nutrients train travel down the
proximal convoluted tubules and into the
loop of Henle where a process of
reabsorption happens in this process the
kidneys decide what are the nutrients
our bodies need now and reabsorbs them
back into the bloodstream the remaining
nutrients then travel down the distal
convoluted tubules into the collecting
duct and into a urinary bladder and is
secreted when the time is right the
kidneys are not taking out those
nutrients because they are poisonous or
bad for our bodies but simply we
cause our bodies don’t need it at that
point of time the idea that our urine
contains poisonous elements is merely a
myth and not proven by facts our urine
contains 95 percent water 2% urea and
the rest is other medically important
elements like growth hormones insulin
and gyro kinase euro kindness is an
element that is useful for dissolving
clots in our arteries and veins that can
lead to heart attacks and strokes how
can knowing this be helpful to you it
was helpful for a company called enzymes
of America in 1988 when they discovered
that urine has euro kinase and they
realized that people were flushing down
potential medicine down the drain so
they designed a filter that could
collect that euro kindness from ten
thousand men’s urinals around the
country and were able to tap into a
medicine industry what five hundred
million dollars a year in August 1993
Forbes magazine published an article
about Fabio Bertinelli who owned the
largest fertility drug producing company
in the world the drug preg an all that
improves the chances of conception was
made from the urine of postmenopausal
woman in fact in Tibet a cure for
infertility requires couples to drink
each other’s urine why didn’t I know all
of this it was never a secret because if
you do a search on Amazon you’ll be fine
dozens of books on the subject of urine
therapy and a number of research papers
in reputed medical journals on the use
of urine in fact ancient records from
Egypt India and China refer to the use
of urine therapy between 1996 and 2013
there were six world conferences held
around the world attended by people of
over 50 countries on the subject of
urine therapy I didn’t know any of this
because I never know I made an effort to
know it about two months ago one of my
friends came to visit me and I told him
that I was experimenting with you in
therapy
he looked at the glass of water had
given him and he freaked out he asked me
I’m on your part of your experiment I
told him I would love to give you my
urine but it works better if you use
your own he told me what rubbish if
humans were supposed to drink their own
urine they would have had the natural
instinct to do so I told him humans also
don’t have the natural instinct to
practice meditation or to do regular
exercise which is clearly conducive to
good health interestingly humans don’t
question their natural instincts when
they are imbibing strong liquors or
smoking hundreds of cigarettes
instead anyone who has done some farming
or gardening should have realized that
when dead leaves are dug back into the
soil the resultant fruits are sweeter
the flowers are more fragrant and the
trees are healthier the dead leaves that
seem useless are not they far from
useless can the same principle be
applied to the human body after doing
some research I found out that urine
therapy is a little more complicated
than just putting dead leaves back into
the soil firstly because I could not use
any urine it had to be the first you
nation of the morning because our first
urination contains medically important
substances that are produced when we
sleep secondly I could not practice
urine therapy if I was having a lot of
acidic foods or animal proteins or on
any medications thirdly I had to capture
the mid stream of the first morning
urination because the first stream and
the ending stream can contain sediments
so every morning I used to get a cup go
to the bathroom and guess ok this is the
mid stream coming
then I would capture that and really ask
myself how can this help me I definitely
had a problem with dandruff that happens
when our scalps get dry so I started
massaging urine on to my scalp I must
tell you the biggest concern I had was I
would stink however I found out that
when you in this massage and completely
absorbed into the skin it does not stink
at all after about two weeks of trying
that I found my dandruff to disappear
and I told my friends I have cured my
dandruff they told me you must be using
a very good shampoo I told them it’s not
only good it’s free urine is able to
cure dandruff because of his
moisturizing properties in 1992 a study
was done at the University of Copenhagen
in Denmark that found out that the urea
in urine is a more effective washer Iser
than most commercial oil-based
moisturizers like Nivea what I really
wanted to know however was if drinking
my urine would help me I thought that I
had to be a hero to drink my own urine
the first time I drank my urine I didn’t
know if it was helping me however what I
did know is that it tasted somehow
bitter and salty so I decided to add
some flavoring to it
every morning I would cut a piece of
lemon take it to the bathroom and
squeeze it into a cup of urine and drink
it
my roommates noticed that I was taking a
piece of lemon to the bathroom every day
they asked me what do you do with this
piece of lemon I didn’t think that they
would like my answer so I told them I
scrubbed my nose with it I don’t think
they believed that after about two
months of drinking my own urine I got
used to the taste and after that I could
drink it neat I realized the taste of my
urine really dependent on the kind of
food I was having if I was having acidic
foods lot of animal proteins or spices
it did not taste as nice but if I was
having a lot of fruits and water it
tasted good urine tasted almost like
water if I was fasting on just urine and
water so how did it help me in a
physiological and psychological sense
looking closely and slowly thinking
about perhaps the weirdest and strangest
part of myself left me feeling more
fearless and I appreciated myself more
it created profound changes in me as to
what I really am and everything that
surrounds me if you’re ever thinking
about practicing urine therapy do not do
it if you’re having animal protein or
using medications it is preferable that
you take the advice of a trained urine
therapist people like that exist when my
uncle first came to me and told me to
pee on my wound when I cut myself I
jumped to a conclusion and thought that
my urine would do me harm after doing
some slow thinking and research about it
I found out that our urines actually
have medicinal antiseptic and
moisturizing properties I hope after
listening to this idea
your urine instead of freaking out you
would really ask yourself how can this
be helpful to me thank you
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