How far will some athletes go to succeed in their sport? Pretty far. For boxer Juan Manuel Marquez, drinking his own urine has become part of his training routine. HBO is documenting his training on film as he prepares for the biggest fight of his career, on Sept. 19 against Floyd Mayweather Jr. Will it lead to a victory for him? Marquez thinks so.
Urophagia has deep roots in many cultures (just not ours). Urine does contain a lot of minerals, so there are some who claim it has medicinal properties. Still, I’ll pass.
See video after the jump.
Hat tip to Fanhouse.
on Sep 9th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Boxing could become the next great cover for closeted golden shower fanatics.
on Sep 9th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
New meaning to a dirty martini
on Sep 9th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
An MMA fighter did the same a few months ago… Reported here on OoutSports… There -must- be something to it…
http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2009/03/26/mma-fighter-opts-for-urine-therapy/
I will repeat what I wrote then….
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 (and now a Boxer) may be on to something.
on Sep 22nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I’m a highschool football coach and I make all my athletes drink each other’s urine. And have been doing so for years.