Former Model Says Drinking His Pee Keeps Him Healthy; Experts Say, Please Don’t

A former top model and now a self-proclaimed wellness expert, Troy Casey follows an unorthodox health regimen, which includes the daily practice of drinking his own urine. Casey says he has been drinking his pee for years, calling it a diagnostic tool. “I think it teaches your insides a little bit more about yourself,” he told The New York Post.

“Urine has stem cells, amino acids, and antibodies. It’s the hair of the dog, a direct biofeedback loop. You know what’s wrong with you as soon as you drink your morning pee.



” According to Casey, the author of Rippedat50: A Journey to Self-Love, there is also an actual name for this practice: urine therapy, which he says has various benefits for your overall physical as well as mental health. Casey says he was introduced to urine therapy by a breathwork coach who, after an unsuccessful round of chemo, claimed to have healed himself of testicular cancer through urine looping. Related News | Chinese Woman Suffers Liver Damage Despite Drinking Purified Water; Here's HowMan Suffers Kidney Damage After Squat Challenge Goes Wrong; Here's How To Do It SafelyCasey says he drinks what he calls the “middle" pee"—emptying the first splash of his morning stream into the toilet, collecting some in a cup, and sIphoning the last drops back into the bowl.

“The morning pee has the most stem cells, and if you ferment it for up to three weeks, it has hundreds of millions of stem cells,” he said. Is drinking your pee healthy? According to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, it is not good for you. Also, studies conducted by the Journal of Urology say that “much of what we have heard about the use of urine therapy has no medical basis and is [a] folk remedy that can actually worsen the injury.

” Related News | Health Quiz: Which Debilitating Disease Causes Genital Itching and Yeast Infection?Also, experts have warned that drinking urine can be hazardous because it is both dehydrating as well as contaminating. “Urine is mostly water and salt, which dehydrates you. Your kidneys are trying to get rid of the toxins, and if you drink urine, you’re putting the toxins back into the body,” Dr.

Michael Aziz, an internal medicine physician, told The Post. “When people have a UTI, most of the infection in the urine is E. coli.

People can get seriously sick from drinking urine.” For those on medications, drinking urine amounts to reintroducing discarded metabolites back into the body. Meanwhile, above-average levels of urea can be toxic.

“You’re drinking the urea, and that’s going to cause problems; introducing it to the GI tract can cause poisoning,” he said. Experts say when urine passes through the urinary tract, it becomes contaminated with bacteria, and drinking urine - whether your own or someone else's—introduces bacteria into your system that can cause gastrointestinal problems or other infections. Also, urine is rich in concentrated salts and minerals and is not a remedy for treating dehydration.

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