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YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL  

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
29519 posts
11/6/2012 10:46 pm
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL

Many people have drunk their own urine to survive and to prevent dehydration. But increasingly people are drinking their own urine for health purposes - this is called auto-urine therapy. Research in the 1990s even suggested drinking urine could cure jet lag.



Contrary to popular belief, urine is not a by-product of the body's waste disposal system but of blood filtration. Urine consists of 95 per cent water and 5 per cent nutrients (including vitamins, minerals, proteins and antibodies).

One leading proponent of urine therapy and author of Your Own Perfect Medicine book, Martha Christy, recommended a regime of "fresh morning urine" as the first toilet visit of the day produces the most beneficial urine.

The actress Sarah Miles and the novelist J D Salinger regularly drank their own urine.

Drinking one's urine dates back 5,000 years to ancient India, where it was known as shivamba shastra and was seen a way of rejuvenating the body and soul. The Aztecs used urine, which is highly sterile, to treat wounds. Drinking urine is still very popular in China.

In the Bible, a verse in Proverbs advises: "Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well."

Helen Andrews, of the British Dietetic Association, warns that there are "no health benefits to drinking your own urine" and can be damaging.

Have you had an unusual health and beauty treatment?

Here are 10 more unusual health and beauty treatments:
1. nightingale poo facial - just £135 from Hari's salon in London
2. bull's semen hair treatment - claimed that it prevents hair loss and encourages hair growth - just £59 from Hari's; did Wayne Rooney use this? - Elton John probably did!
3. breast milk shakes - new mothers can pass on certain nutrients to their babies by eating particular foods (eg bananas, liquorice, menthol, caraway seeds) before breastfeeding, thus creating a breast milk-shake ready for their baby to consume
4. snail goo moisturiser - discovered when Chilean snail farmers found their hands softer after handling snails
5. snake venom wrinkle cure - a jar of such anti-ageing cream, containing venom of the deadly temple viper, costs £45 from Syn-Vipe
6. breast milk soap - free of artificial ingredients; there is a website, onlythebreast, dedicated to the donating, buying and selling of breast milk
7. fire cupping - a heated cup, with a lit cotton ball dipped in very strong alcohol inside, is applied to the skin to create a vacuum that stimulates the flow of blood
8. vampire facelift - facelift where the patient's own blood is processed and applied to the facelift to stimulate skin cell growth; this procedure, costing over $1,000, is also extensively used to treat acne scars, skin wrinkles etc
9. pescatarian pedicure - originated from Turkey where toothless fish - known as doctor fish - devour dead skin; this pedicure tickles!
10. breast milk ice cream - The Icecreamists, an ice cream restaurant in London, sold breast milk ice cream called 'The Baby Gaga', costing £14 per dish; Victoria Hiley from Leeds provided the first sample of breast milk; her 30 fluid ounces made 50 servings with all servings were sold out on the first day of the launch; since its launch, local authority officials confiscated batches of this ice cream for testing and tried to ban its sale after receiving complaints and Lady Gaga's lawyers also threatened to sue over the ice cream's name; the ice cream was re-named 'Baby Googoo'.

Inside is a picture of the 'Baby Googoo' ice cream!

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
11/6/2012 11:21 pm

Would you eat some Baby Googoo ice cream?

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LadyGrayLeopard 63F
26369 posts
11/7/2012 3:24 pm

eeeek... and I thought I'm open-minded

But that doesn't concern food


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
11/7/2012 11:20 pm

We've had a pescatarian pedicure; lots of pop-up shops offered fish pedicures in recent years in the UK.
The fish tickled our feet, and we were worried about standing on the small fish!


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