Please Don’t Let ‘Urine Therapy’ Be the Next Big Health Trend
No, drinking pee won’t cure cancer or anything else.
Content Warning: Brief mentions of miscarriage. Also, pee-drinking.
Seen in an online pregnancy group:
“The doctors say I’ve miscarried. There’s nothing they can do for me. I’m such a mess right now. Is there still hope?”
Love pours in: support from strangers, some who can relate, some who can’t.
And then this comment:
“It’s not too late. You can save your baby. There is only one way, and it is literally the cure for anything and everything: golden therapy. Drink your pee and experience the healing. Take note, everyone: it will also cure your cancer and your acne. It is the only healthcare you will ever need.”
I did a spit take when I read this. (I was drinking coffee, to be clear.)
I barely had time to write an empathetic response to the woman going through miscarriage before jumping down the rabbit hole of urine therapy enthusiasts, who advocate urophagia, or drinking urine.
Nobody can agree on a term that will convince others to try it, so it has lots of names, including urinotherapy, urotherapy, urine therapy, UT, Orin…
