It’s our TMI edition! First, we respond to recent listener feedback, and revisit our analysis of Joshua 10:12-13. What would really happen if God made the sun “stand still” in the sky for a whole day? Next, we tell you more than you ever wanted to know about urotherapy. What is it? What benefits do its advocates claim? And what does medical science have to say about it? [Caution: While we don't go into graphic detail, some listeners may nonetheless find this discussion distasteful (no pun intended).]
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Recorded February 23, 2009. Hosted by John C. Snider and David Driscoll.
There is a book called “Sufferings in Africa” by James Riley. He was Captain of a ship that was shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. He and some of his crew were captured by slave traders. In the forced march across the desert he had to resort to drinking not only his own urine, but also camel urine. I read the book years ago. It is available on Amazon and is really an amazing account of survival. It all comes down to you do what you have to do.
PS to my previous comment. One survival course that I took in the military taught that you could stretch your water supply by using it to diluting your urine and drinking it.
You might check this site for an exhaustive amount of info (if you really feel the need to “beat the piss out of it”). http://skepdic.com/urine.html Anyway I mentioned this podcast to my wife and she said that her mother used to put warm urine in her (my wife’s) ears when she had an ear ache or ear infection. I’m not advocating this but I’m 59 (she is a little older but I would never say how much) and her hearing is far superior to mine – go figure.. My father used to work in a coal mine and he told me that the miners were told that they could drink their urine if trapped underground by filtering it thru some coal. Of course my father believed a whole bunch of strange stuff. I once witnessed him dowsing to locate a buried drain pipe. It’s a wonder I can even think for myself – but I digress…
My first encounter with a use for urine was in a reprint of an old US Army Survival Manual which mentioned that it was sterile and in an emergency could be used to flush out wounds.
FYI: A good general web site for alternative medicine information is http://www.quackwatch.com/ which I was surprised you didn’t mention. On the other hand it has only a single bibliographic reference for urotherapy relating to lack of evidence in cancer treatment. I have no relationship with the web site other than reading it.
Yech. I’m not a particularly squeamish person, but I’m disappointed that this much time was spent on this topic on a podcast. It would have better suited to “Skeptoid” and his usual brief time of about 10 minutes (in this case less).