Health nuts and athletes can come up with some interesting ways to stay in shape, but rising MMA star Lyoto Machida from Brazil just might have everyone else beat. From Tatame Magazine:
Besides telling all his preparation routine, the undefeated fighter revealed a curious tradition in his family, a secret until then: urine therapy. Once in the day, he and his family drinks their own urine. “My father does that for a long time and bring it to us. People think it’s a joke (laughs). I never said it in the United States because I don’t know how the fans will react (laughs). I drink my urine every morning like a natural medicine”, revealed the fighter.
Hat tip to SportsByBrooks.
on Mar 27th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Disgusting.
on Mar 27th, 2009 at 2:55 am
It works for him I guess. He’s undefeated and about to fight for a UFC world championship.
I’m not doing that shit though!
on Mar 27th, 2009 at 3:23 am
From what I’ve read and been told by science teachers, you drink it only if you’re out of water and the clearer it is the better.
The mere though of ingesting piss makes me want to barth all over my desk.
on Mar 27th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Well, it’s not all that uncommon. Gandhi did it, and some other people still do it (I couldn’t).
National Geographic knows:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1121_051121_urine_video.html
on Mar 27th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Geez, there’s no water sports dudes here at OS? LOL There’s an entire fetish subculture built around it. Not for me though.
Pee is the true waste product of the bodies cell metabolism and wouldn’t have any nutritional or medicinal value by ingesting it but chugging your own golden liquid isn’t uncommon as Finneye points out. Now I do know guys who pee on their feet prophetically as a treatment for athletes foot.
on Mar 27th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
on Mar 28th, 2009 at 11:57 am
People have been drinking piss since people been pissing. Don’t people in India try to use cow’s piss for all kinds of purposes? Ain’t piss sterile as it shoots out of one’s 98 degree body?
It’s all in your mind, sports fans. What’s right, what’s wrong, what’s good, what’s bad, what’s acceptable, what’s disgusting. It’s all in your mind and no one else’s.
on Mar 28th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Actually if you read ALL of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars (not just what Catholic school let you read), his commentary on the MORNING RITUAL of the Roman Legions in very arid interior Hibernia (Spain) would confirm this tradition, not only from a macho warrior ritual perspective, but from a sterile/hygienic perspective…. IOW, they pee’d in a cup the night before, and brushed their teeth with it every morning.
Now that was a military code!
All of these shocked reactions are symptomatic of the brainwashing we all got from the misguided medical practices & standards of the ’40s, where the miltiary made huge advances quickly in emergency treatments during the War. But as usual we eventually over reacted with the ‘more is better’ response, and we over prescribed antibiotics, preached ridiculous sterility, and created a generation of ‘boy in the bubble’ allergies the world had never seen… including the explosion of so many immuno anomolies like Parkinsons, Epstein-Barr, and Lupus.
So many of these could have been avoided in childhood by the normal breast feeding of infants, letting kids playing in the dirt, and letting kids get sick and accept it as normal.
I may be still a 50’s holdover being 60yo and still a queasy WS negative holdout, but in a pinch, it does cure athletes feet and offer a sterile saline like solution to rinse off a serious cut when caught in a remote area without medical aid. And the kid within me still likes to piss on trees every chance I get.
IMHO, as a wrestler/coach very familiar with the weight cutting, dehydration, binge/purge culture, urine might serve as a bio feedback mechanism to the body to -really- start metabolizing stuff to get more water out of tissue, and then start flushing out even more stuff. This is strictly my very unscientific observation based upon what I have observed with so many of these ’supplements’ which are ‘Nitro’ based (protein, etc..)… Well the major active ingredient in urine is Urea, a protein knock off.
So this MMA fighter may be on to something.
on Mar 28th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Coach Dermody, a San Francisco sports promoter and all ’round local icon of the Bay Area’s gay sports scene, should be rendered a certain deference in his anecdotal but nonetheless empirical years of close observation of numerous athletes & their sporting pursuits. As much as my personal revulsion at my infrequent and thoroughly nose-wrinkling attempts to ingest more than a mouthful of my own urine (especially prompted forward when I first heard that the revered Mahatma Gandhi himself did this daily) forces me to avoid swallowing whenever my or a beloved friend’s urine “just happens” to find itself entering my open pie hole, I’ve just got to express how powerfully sexually “bonding” even the mere taste of another man’s urine can be. ‘Tis true, I must confess, that in more heated moments of passion, the revulsion I have felt seems to be overcome with the heightened testosterone of the occasional moment! Never say never, it has been said, and that seems to have been the case with me & a surprising number of sexual play-friends over the years. There, I’ve typed it & I stand by it, despite the puritanical disapproval that is bound to spring to many American minds who have indeed been programmed to live life as “purely” as possible. Oh well, there goes my last shred of mainstream respectability!
on Mar 30th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Roman, reading another mans thoughts (yours) is different than thinking about it myself. I got a hard on now
Bring on the water sports.
on Mar 30th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
on Mar 31st, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Whatever works for you I suppose.
on May 20th, 2009 at 5:20 am
KEV “Pee is the true waste product of the bodies cell metabolism and wouldn’t have any nutritional or medicinal value by ingesting it”
Your are absolutely incorrect. Urine is full of nutrients, antibodies, minerals and hormones.
We are brain washed to believe that it’s dirty, disgusting. When in fact it one if not the greatest natural medicines know to man.
We are brainwashed to becuase if we all started using it all of the pharmaceutical companies would go out of business very quickly and people would live longer (there goes the population control)
I used to think it was disgusting. But what is really disgusting is being sick all of the time and spending all of your money on medicine that does more harm than good. Or expensive natural alternatives.
I just started urine therapy a few days ago. I got a sinus infection and they usually go into my chest and I need to then get on anti-biotics. This was the 3rd time in 5 months and I said enough. I was desperate I some how ran across urine therapy and I said F*$@ It! I grabbed a glass and drank about $4 ounces of my own urine. No it did not taste great but it’s was not as bad as some vegetable juices I have tried.
After two days. I am feeling much better not on anti-biotics and I’m almost over the sinus infection. I am also using coconut oil in my nose via a Neti Pot.
The point is when you get sick and tired enough of being sick and tired you will thanks GOD for urine therapy.
BTW UT has cured…
Cancer
Viral Diseases
FLU
Mono
Nail Fungus
and has helped or cured a huge list of diseases that I don’t have the time to list.
The sad part is there is a TON of medical proof and drug and cosmetic companies use urine and urea in their products that you buy now yet they lie to use and tell us that it’s a waste product.
Here is a good starting point for more info.