WEBVTT - Urine for a Treat 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.000 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:14.640 Works dot com. Hey, welcome to stuff to Blow your mind. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.560 My name is Robert Lamb and Julie Douglas. And Julie, 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.760 let's talk about urine. Let's do it as the as 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:22.880 the commodity urine, not so much about the I mean, 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:24.840 we'll get into some of the biological processes that are 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.040 involved in the creation if you're into a certain extent, 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.680 but for the most part, urine as this semi magical 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.600 golden liquid that comes out of our bodies. And there 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.720 it is on the ground, in a jar, in the toilet, 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.800 in the urinal, on the side of a bus, wherever. 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.760 We're left to contemplate this liquid and figure out what 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.839 we should do with it, what can we learn from it. 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.479 And indeed, every time you get to the doctor, or 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.159 most times you go to the doctor, what you have 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.360 to do, you have to be in a cup, that's right, 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.440 because that's that liquid goal that will tell you all 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.800 sorts of things about your presence and your future. And 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.200 we've been been divining with urine for thousands of years. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.880 I mean, the practice goes back, uh literally thousands of years, 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.960 and we're still the thing about is we still haven't 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.640 completely refined the process. We're still finding new ways to 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:16.080 learn from urine and uh and actually uh discovered the 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.280 the curative properties of urine, but not in the way 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.839 that you might be thinking. We'll get into the whole 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.399 urine drinking as well. Yeah, it actually turns out to 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.479 be far more complex and nuanced beyond some of the 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.240 things that we already know about urina. We'll talk about 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.080 that moment, Like what does it mean when my p 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.560 is like electric yellow? Yeah, hold on because we'll get there, 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.280 so piano jar. We'll get to to the color in 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.240 just a minute. But but first let's just rehash the 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.880 basics about urine. Urine, of course, is there for a reason. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:48.120 It is a waste product. It's their remove extra water 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.160 and water soluble waste that the kidneys filtered from the blood, 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.000 so it gets rid of toxins and things that would 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.680 otherwise build up in the body. Yeah. I kind of 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.480 think about the kidneys as a brew house. Yeah, and uh, 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.080 you know, the waste products as the hops. They're kind 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.920 of like flavoring what your urine is going to look like. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.919 And it's really important because kidneys do maintain water volume 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.240 and balance as well as regulate blood composition. And if 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.600 you think about it, there are really only four exit 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:19.560 strategies for substances in your body feces, your breath, sweat, 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.000 and urine. So urine is obviously one of the think 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.720 four here. I remember when I wrote the article about 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.800 saunas for how stuff work, I was looking into the whole, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.600 uh you know, question of what can you can you 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.720 sweat out impurities, and you can sweat out some impurities, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.399 but really urine is the go to for for those 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.440 liquid impurities. So you'll get a little with sweat, but 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.200 it's mainly the P. Yeah, and let's talk about that 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.519 P because it is composed primarily of water. We're talking 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.640 about in a well hydrated person. The other five percent, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:54.520 we're talking all sorts of organic solute including uria, creatine, 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.880 uric acid, and tracing massive enzymes, carbohydrates, hormones, fatty acids. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.720 It goes the list goes down and down and down. Yeah, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.120 it's it's kind of I mean the thing again, it's 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.519 a waste product. So you get into that whole situation 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.280 of when you want to learn about an ancient culture, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.320 what do you end up looking for as an archaeologist. 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.639 You look for their garbage heat, you know, you find 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:13.960 out what they're eating, what they're they're throwing away, what 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.800 kind of little bits of detritus um give us a 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.760 picture of their lives. And thus we do the same 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.520 with urine. And and we're discovering more and more ways 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.840 to do that with urine because you see what they ate, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.960 what kind of uh, you know, what they took, part of, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.160 what kind of environment they lived in. So we're talking 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:34.679 about here is a a parr more nuanced understanding or 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.680 beginnings of understandings of urine, because you know, if you 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.720 look at compounds right now that are tested in urine, 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.600 you're you're talking about hundred and fifty, not three thousand. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.960 So it turns out that urine beats out saliva as 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.279 one of the most complex fluids in the human body. 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.640 And it h that has ushered in new urine based 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:56.840 diagnostic tests for colon and prostate cancer, celiac disease, and pneumonia. Yeah, 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.640 that was fascinating. We're you know, talking different compounds can 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:01.960 show up in there that should show you know, what 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.520 kind of drug the drugs the person that happens to 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.560 be taking, what they're drinking, what food's reading, what's cosmetics 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.000 they're wearing. I never thought about cosmetic signatures in urine, 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.440 But there you go. And uh, I mean in the 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.680 course of great thing, and this will come up again again. 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.159 The great thing about urine is that, unlike other ways 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.160 you might test the body, I mean, it just comes 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.560 right out. It's it's you're not having to dig into 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.160 the body, cut into the body. It's it's a pre 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.520 and invasive way of getting at some data about how 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.040 the organism is working. And it's I mean it's as 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.679 far as gross things that come out of the body, 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.640 it's generally not that gross. Now, if you want to 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.880 read the tea leaves as it were of your own 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.080 p at home, without going through a highly diagnostic test, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.520 you can do so just by looking at the color, right. Yeah, 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.960 And you know, in urine comes in a rainbow of colors. 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.320 Like on one hand, you can have like the extremely 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.480 dark urine. You can have the crystal clear urine. That's 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:56.800 what I tend to try and go for on a 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.440 good day, drink enough water tour it's just straight up clear. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.400 I'm being all day long. And then you have you 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.960 have various other shades in between. So, uh, the big one. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.760 If you have colorless water urine, what does that mean? 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.160 Just straight up, you've been drinking a lot of water 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.640 all right, which I tend to see. It's like a 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.599 badge of It's like it's like an achievement award that 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.560 you get. It's like, there we go, I'm doing it. Now. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.280 Let's let's get really specific here. Have you ever peed 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.120 into the boilet, looked and then saw that day glow 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:30.000 yellow and you're just a little bit taken back? Yes? Um, 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.320 so certainly when I've taken like a lot of vitamins, 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.359 sometimes I'll see that really yellow, or or if I 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.400 take those when I had a U T I recently 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.840 I took those pills that help kidneys have flesh of 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:43.799 kidneys and decrease of paint, and that's like bright orange. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:44.960 It's one of those things you take it in an 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.440 hour previously and then you forget that you took it, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.880 and then whoa, you know, it's like a it's like 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.840 a muppet in there. It's alarming, it can be. And 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.159 if you have tea colored urine, well that means that 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:02.000 you're probably dehydrated. Now a lot of these more concentrated urine. Right, 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:03.640 this tends to be the kind of urine you see 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.320 in abandoned soda bottles. I notice, you know, you never 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.760 see like really clear, healthy urine in an old sun 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.000 drop container. It's always like dark brown urine that you're 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.200 not sure if it's if it's p R motor oil 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.840 at first glance. Yeah, But if you're urinating into a bottle, 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.120 you're probably there's probably some sort of thing going on 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.120 there that means that your entire circumstances and you're just 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.800 reaching for the the nearest vessel. Now, the thing that 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.159 you want to strive for is straw colored urine. Really, 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.960 so am I overreaching with my crystal? It's possible. It's 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.160 possible that you might have to dilute of urine, in 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:39.720 which case you might want to back off a little 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.800 bit because that's raw color kind of shows that there's 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.760 a balance going on in terms of the salts in 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.320 your body and everything else. Okay, Now, of course the 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.320 big one, of course, if there's any blood, and that's 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.840 generally that's generally I mean, that is a sign that 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.320 you need to get it checked out. It could be 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.600 something simple, could be a U T I. But it 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.840 can also be something far more serious, I mean, bladder cancer, 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.680 you name it. So it comes down to again the 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.080 fact that that you can tell so much about how 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.440 the organs is functioning by looking at the year, and 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.360 even something as simple as just visually what's going on 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.160 there now? Since and we won't put too much into 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.760 this because we could probably spend an entire podcast about peace, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.920 but a sugary smell might indicate the presence of blood 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.440 sugar that's been excreted into the urine and could be 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.720 caused by diabetes or pregnancy. And of course, as we know, 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.280 certain foods produced a sulfur containing amino acid. Looking at 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.560 usparagus v. S asparagus for the first time following this podcast, 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.760 be prepared possibly for something a little a little funky. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:40.920 All right, let's talk about some myths of p because 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.880 there are ideas of P use out there in the world, 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:49.200 and I'm talking specifically about drinking your own P Is 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.120 this a good idea? Yes? Or now? Um no, it's 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.280 not a good idea? And uh what, I I know 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.120 it sounds amazing. I mean a lot of it comes 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:58.920 down to the fact that you know we're talking about 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.600 it earlier. What's it made off water. Okay, that's great, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.720 we need water, but that remaining five is garbage and toxic, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.680 toxic garbage that you're better better off not drinking. Now, 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.160 it's an idea that has that keeps coming down. I 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.440 guess you're something, you know, cyclical and sort of magical 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.520 sounding about drinking urine. As pointed out by Ryan Bradling 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.320 in Popular Science article Classic f y, I is it 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.360 ever okay to drinking on urine? Points out that that 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.119 that the Celts and Iberian Peninsula gargle it to whiten 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.920 their keith, that in air vetic medicine you had the 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.720 practice of ama roli, which is the Sanskrit word that 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.120 refers to urine therapy. And there's even the argument that 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.400 the problem that Proverbs five supports the act saying drink 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.960 waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own self. Now, 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.600 there are some readers who took issue with that proverb, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:50.199 so we won't spend a lot of time with that 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.760 parsing that up. But yeah, this idea of drinking your 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.120 own urine has been around for a long time, and 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.760 you really see it in survivalist situations. So you have 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.720 someone like Aaron Rawlson. He's the rock climber who was 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.200 pinned under a boulder and he drank his own urine 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.480 during a five day or deal in which he ended 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.720 up amputating his own arm. And you have people like 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.560 Bear Grills. He's a survivalist who say, yeah, it could work. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:17.280 But the idea there is it might work to drink 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:21.240 your own urine in um this dire situation only if 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.640 you have that correct level of dilute water in your pea. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.600 So if you are dehydrated to the point that you 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.079 drink your pea, it's not a good idea because it 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.280 becomes more and more concentrated with all of those um 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.600 excess electrolytes. We're talking about chloride, sodium, and potassium. You 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:40.679 do not want to fill up on this stuff. Yeah, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.439 I mean, it's one of the reasons why the Army 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.880 Field Manual for Survival, Evasion and Recovery listed on the 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.400 do not Drink list along with seawater and blood. So 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.920 really it's it's to think about that it's basically on 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.600 the same level as drinking seawater blood in a survival situation. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.200 To your point, if you had you know, somebody around 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.040 with really crystal clear urine. You could maybe make the 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.680 case for it, but in a survival situation, it's going 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.520 to be that orange stuff in the sun drop container. Yeah, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.679 because most likely in that situation, you maybe you get 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.760 that first batch and it's fine, but as you continue 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:17.080 to not replenish your system with fresh, clean water and 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.319 your kidneys don't get fleshed out, well, then again, the 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:26.760 more concentrated toxic substances accumulate. And what we're talking about 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.600 here is sodium drawing water out of yourselves, dehydrating you. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.480 And of course too much catasium can lead to heart attacks. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.079 All Right, we'll hold on to that jar of urine 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:38.920 because we're gonna take a quick breaking. When we come back, 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.760 we're going to get into yet another popular myth about 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:55.959 the use of urine in do it yourself medicine. Okay, 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.440 if you're on the beach, friend is has just emerged 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:03.000 from the ocean screaming. It appears that they have been 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:08.959 stung by jellyfish. Now, some people might decide that at 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.400 that very moment that they are going to break protocol 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.480 and friendship, assuming they don't have this level of intimacy, 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.160 and urinate on their friend because they think that will 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.400 alleviate the pain. Well, I'm pretty sure you should never 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.199 urinate on your friends. First rule, first rule. So if 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.240 you find yourself breaking that rule, you need to ask 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.920 yourself some serious, hard questions about what's going on. Um. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.520 But yeah, this is something we see a lot. It's 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.520 this is it's just a common trope. It shows up 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.880 in TV shows and uh, just sort of part of 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.760 our popular consciousness, the idea that, oh, the jellyfish sting 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.440 is awful, but we have the cure right in our 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.559 own body. All we have to do is is muster 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.120 up some urine and splash that on there, and that 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.160 will relieve the symptoms. Right. And I think, oh, it's sterile. Well, 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.000 sure it's sterile while it's inside of you, but when 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.400 it goes down the track, it's picking up bacteriaus. So 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.680 when it exits your body, it is not errol any longer. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.200 But that's not even really the problem. Um. And to 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.160 discuss the problem of why this actually may worsen the sting, 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.760 we have to look at the jellyfish's skin cells, these 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:15.319 stinging cells or nita sites. Now, these cells hold a 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.600 barbed thread like tube called a neumoticist and this is 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.439 filled with venom, and Matt Sonicic writing from Mental Fault, 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.520 describes it further. He says, on the outside of each 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.640 cell that tiny hair called a nita cell, and when 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.920 this hair trigger is to serve the cell's toxic harpoon 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.599 explodes from its capsule and into the skin of the 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.520 jellyfish's prey or an unlucky swimmer. Yeah. This one thing 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.160 to keep in mind about the jellyfish thing is that 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.440 it's not just this magical touch that you know, dark 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.880 magical touch that that burns you. It's not like being 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.760 burned by something where the source of the burn is 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.880 taken away and therefore all you have is the injury. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.640 You have those uh, those little nemetosis still present and 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.040 they're clinging on, so they're still there. There's still some 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.280 weaponry on the skin that can be activated, for instance, 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.600 by scratching. If you start scratching the jellyfish sting, you're 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.440 going you're gonna aggravate those nemetosis that are still clinging there, 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.520 and you're gonna get more sting. Yeah, that's right, because 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.560 there are a couple of things that really spring those 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.480 harpoons of venom into action. And whe is pressure so right, 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.199 if you use your own fingers to squeeze at it 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.080 or try to pinch it off, you're gonna get stung. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:26.160 And it also senses changes in its environment, like chemical composition. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.439 So what would happen if you peet on this, Well, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.679 what would happen is that those cells would say, hmmmm, 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:36.800 this is odd. There's more water in this composition than seawater, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.680 and we see this as an attack, and it would 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:45.040 actually release more venom as your urine trickled over the wound. Yeah, 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.079 any change to the balance of solids is going to 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.000 set off more stinging. So I mean because the thing 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.800 about this, The thing is, though um amusing and perplexing 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.720 about the urine of situation, is that what we're saying 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.160 here is that the liquid you need to use to 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.840 wash off that sting and get rid of any clinging 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.080 neumatsis that are still there is saltwater. And and and 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.960 since there's an extremely high probability that you were stung 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.960 by that saltwater jellyfish in saltwater, then it stands the 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.839 reason you need to just walk three feet and get 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.360 some more saltwater and wash it off. And if for 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.840 some reason you're stunt like somebody males a jellyfish to 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.840 you and then you're stung. Well, then you need to 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.960 get something like vinegar. But but you're just using urine. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.400 I mean, you would like we said, you have that 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.120 water five percent impurity, but then there are all these 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.520 varying degrees of of uncertainty as to what its actual 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.600 content is going to be. So it's possible that you 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.200 could have like magic uh urine. You can have just 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.200 the right level in your urine super dehydrated, just super 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.920 dehydrated I guess, just the just the right salt nous 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.840 to where it would be effective. But that would the 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.480 chances of that being the case are are pretty rare. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.040 And if your urine is that concentrated with salt, then 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.000 you haven't entirely different problems right right, Like you put 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.800 the jellyfish thing now is sort of on the sidelines, yeah, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.560 I mean, but again it comes back to the saltwater. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.760 Saltwater is what you need to watch that staying with. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.960 And there's an ocean of it there in front of you, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.080 so use it all right, So there we go. Now 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.840 you know about jellyfish things, please don't pee and your 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.320 friends and should we even talk about the asparagus problem. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.880 I feel like this is such a chicken and egg problem. Yeah. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.480 And you know, back when the podcast was Step in 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.320 the Science Libe, I feel like we did an episode 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.000 on it about like something, because there's a lot of 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.880 it's legitimately interesting research into the genetics of this. You know, 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.320 the idea that some people have the gene that that 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.840 lets them makes their peace smell like asparagus when they 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.840 eat it, others don't. And then the reverse of that, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.280 some people have the gene that allows them to smell 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.280 the the the asparagus smell and others don't. So which 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.400 way is it? Yeah? And as as far as I 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.120 can tell, in all the literature that is built up 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:55.560 on this, and there's a ton of it, by the way, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.240 the consensus seems to be it could be a little 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.040 from column A M B right, a little bit that 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.960 you could smell it or you can't smell it, you 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.360 can produce, you can produce it, or you can't produce it. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.400 I mean, I think this is we'll put this in 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.800 the area of consciousness. We don't know asparagus. We don't 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.240 know exactly why pie smells like asparagus or doesn't. And 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.240 we don't know the center of consciousness. Yeah, those are 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.360 the two big ones that science. Science has on the 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.640 blackboard if you have to cross them off. But you know, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.840 while people are worrying over the genetics of asparagus p 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.080 there's a lot of precious euro kinees's going straight down 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.480 the toilet and that stuff is gold. I love. This 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:44.200 story to me is about innovation, It's about imagination, creativity. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.440 And one guy by the name of Earl Braxon. Now 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:52.800 this is a portable toilets businessman who also has a 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:58.560 pharmaceuticals firm pharmacuticles dot org. And he figured out that 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:03.600 if you could ease out this enzyme euro kinds, and 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.159 you could figure out the sort of volume that you 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.800 need to to really make enough of it, well then 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.240 maybe you could turn a profit in a medical world. 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.920 But how how to collect all of this urine? But first, 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.880 let's talk about why euro kindness is important. I mean, basically, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.679 it's it's gold because it is used to dissolve blood 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.040 clots and heart patients. So it has an an enormous 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.240 potential out there as a as as a as a medicine. 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:32.679 So even even though this idea that you can just 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.840 drink your urine for health is complete bunk. Here we 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.000 see someone who has who has said, yes, there is 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.960 this a fabulous medicine hidden in our urine. All we 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:44.359 have to do is find a way to extract. And 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.800 of course that becomes the problem, especially if your businesses 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.919 is poor to bodies. Because we've we've all seen a 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.639 portable toilet before. We know there's not there's not always 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.800 a lot of technology going on there. Generally it consists 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.760 of a of a dark hole into which we cast 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.440 things and then we we just assume that somebody else 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.200 is going to suck it out with a with a 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.000 giant tank on the back of the truck. Well, and 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.480 they do right, and then they deliver it over to 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.280 Braxton's business. And that's where it becomes really important that 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:17.840 those participants that Coachella with full bladders are are really 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.199 depositing this, because it turns up that he, along with 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.480 biochemists Dr. E. Kendall Pie, they created a system that 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.639 could separate the enzyme from the urine and come up 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.040 with a viable product that could be used in a 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:35.679 life threatening situation where you you know, you have the 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.600 blood clot and a lung and you just get this 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:42.359 injection and poof this enzyme actually dissolves it. It's pretty 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.719 amazing stuff. And in the process of of seeing this 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.439 this stuff out of the urine and to u the 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.320 medical industry, that millions and millions of dollars are made. 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.000 That's the bottom line. Well, yeah, that there we go. Yes, 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.920 there's always profit at the bottom of the toilet there, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.639 but again there's a there's there's a pretty nickel process 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.119 involved in extracting neuro kinny. There's a certain amount of 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.800 volume of urine that is required, so you're probably not 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.000 gonna really benefit from starting to do it yourself with 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.399 your own golden leavings. That's a really good point. By 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.639 the way, just in case you guys are there are like, hey, 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.280 this is something I could get into a little niche business. 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.200 And by the way, I think that Braxton has cornered 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.879 the market on that. I mean he's got he's got 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:25.959 quite a little business of porta potties. He's been doing 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:27.800 it for a while too, so this is not something 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.680 that's spread up in the last even few years. Here's 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.080 a little factoid for you. For one of his porta 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:39.719 potty lines, he tried to use um the phrase here's Johnny. Oh, 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.080 I like the well I was thinking of the shining 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.879 Well you're thinking of Johnny Carson. Yeah, And the Tonight 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:50.760 Show sued him and said, you cannot use our famous 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.399 term here's Johnny for our porta potties. Wow. See, I 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.280 would think it would be bad because I'm picturing Jack 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.040 Nicholson hacking through the side of the portagon one and 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.439 to do my business. Maybe that's the other part of it. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.719 They're like and subconsciously people think that they're gonna get 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.880 hacked to death while they're popping a squat um. But 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:12.199 I mean, this guy is the essence of just persistence. 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:16.199 Because even after Carson died, he tried again, well you 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.879 know name and again This Night Show said well, yeah, alright, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.840 what else could we get from urine? I mean something groundbreaking? Yeah, 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.960 And this is amazing because I know what some of 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:28.639 your thinking. You're thinking, all right, well you can you 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.399 can get your knees out of urine through this complex process. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.679 But that's not really the same as saying, you know, 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.480 urine has curative properties, so there's magic in the urine 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.359 that can be used to to to heal um a 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:44.000 wounded or aging or disease human body. But this really 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:47.639 I think settles the argument. According to a two thousand 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.800