What happens if you drink urine?

Answer 1

If you have very low water you can drink urine for surviving although it's not veery healthy of course. it doesn't affect your organs if you drink it for 1-2 days but if you drink it too many days it can be a problem.

Answer 2

In the short term it can be useful if you are very short of water.

In the long term it just puts back the poisons which have been carfeully extracted from your body.
Some scientists believe that drinking your urine can make you much healthier than you are...

So,drinking your urine can may improve your health and and perhaps help to fight many diseases too...Just remember there is no documented evidence to support any therapeutic benefits from drinking urine at this point. It is almost all water with a few minerals etc that are readily available elsewhere & has no magic ingredient(s). It is sterile though, so if you must drink it to stay alive-you could.
Remember that urine is one of the processes by which the body gets rid of waste products. In the particular case, urea from the metabolism of protein, excess salts, and other waste products.

In the Far East, drinking of urine is a not a rare practice, but in western eyes it has little to recommend it.

Aron Ralston, (127 Hours Beteen a Rock and a Hard Place) whilst canyoning in Utah in 2003, had his arm jammed by a falling rock, and several days later had to self-amputate his lower arm. Out only for a day trip, his water had long gone, and tried to drink his urine. Even in his extremis, he does not recommend the practice.

As to what happens, you'll only concentrate the salts and urea you should be trying to get rid of. If your water intake is adequate, you'll do OK, but otherwise, it will not improve your circumstance.

You can drink pee provided that you supplement it with water and food. There have been some people that drank urine as a health supplement: Mahatma Gandhi for one. There are some arguments for it being beneficial.

However you cannot drink just urine continuously without fatal effects. This is an option with shipwrecked sailors. In 'Mutiny on the Bounty' the death of four sailors is recorded from their choosing this option.

Many times seafaring peoples have been lost at sea, afloat without benefit of fresh water (potable fresh water) for the purpose of drinking, only to find that the consumption of saltwater acts as a diuretic, causing one's body to pass more liquid than it takes in. The overload of salt also acts on the brain physiologically to cause irrational thought patterns to surface.

Answer 3

It puts wastes back into your body. People have been known to drink it when there was no water and in the middle ages it was a common cure for several conditions.