Are you kidding me?  Drinking warm, sparkling urine?  If I were buried alive or stranded in the desert...maybe?

Urine is 95% water, 2.5% urea, and a 2.5% mixture of minerals, salts, hormones, enzymes, and non-toxic waste products.

The practice of drinking urine is certainly not new or limited to a few modern practitioners of combat sports such as world champions Lyoto Machida in MMA and Juan Manuel Marquez in boxing.  China, India, the Middle East and Rome all have ancient and modern writings that discuss the willful consumption of urine.

I recently viewed an HBO 24/7 episode with Mr. Marquez sipping a steaming glass of his golden nectar in preparation for an upcoming fight with Floyd Mayweather, Jr.  I have the utmost respect for Marquez as a champion but apparently the thought of a potential ass whipping will drive a man to consider a great many things.

Though the potential benefits and healing capacities of drinking urine have been encouraged for centuries by many cultures, there is no credible medical literature or studies that support these beliefs.

Urine has been consumed to combat dehydration in extreme survival situations for its’ 95% water content.  Also water is reclaimed from urine, purified and filtered for consumption on the international space station.

Drinking your own urine may reclaim a small bit of water but if the body didn’t want the other 5 % (waste products and the like) why would it want it the second time around?

Wouldn’t it be easier and probably considerably tastier to just sip a tall refreshing glass of H20?