Have you ever been curious why some people drink their urine or have you ever tried to? Well,
I certainly hope not! My name is Dr. Rena Malik, urologist and pelvic surgeon, and today I'm
reacting to an episode of My Strange Addiction called the Urine Drinker. If you're new here,
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on this episode of my strange addiction a woman takes a shocking ritual to the extreme
I'm addicted to drinking my urine I drink it like I'm in a beer drinking contest
sometimes tastes maybe a little lemony oh my god I this is this is too much
I'm gonna try not I'm not looking forward to this episode
I drink it like I'm in a beer drinking contest it's easier to drink than water for the past four
years carrie has been drinking nearly all of her urine it started as just one glass in the morning
now she consumes up to five glasses every day I like warm pea it's comforting comforting
oh my god first time i drank my urine i didn't throw up
and it wasn't horrible so i thought you know what i can do this my urine does smell depending
on what i eat as i've mentioned in my previous videos about smelly urine there can be lots of
different causes of changes in the odor of your urine very often it can be due to dehydration
or things you eat or drink like asparagus for example is something that can leave a very strong
odor in your urine um still i'm really having a hard time with this urine is your body's waste
it's what your body has decided to filter through and get rid of yeah so it doesn't
seem healthy to me that to put that back into your body but carey doesn't drink urine just
because she loves the taste her addiction began two years after being diagnosed with cancer
i was diagnosed with malignant melanoma stage three and they took out 16 of my lymph nodes found
cancer and three of them under this arm and they told me with the chemo i'd have a year to live
kerry decided against chemo instead turning to urine therapy an ancient
and long discounted practice to maintain health i've heard of things like urine therapy before
and there are a lot of rumors that drinking urine can help with cancers or other sorts of
body ailments and conditions but there is no scientific evidence that drinking your own urine
is going to have any benefit in combating cancer treating chronic medical conditions or
anything like that so i'm not an oncologist but i wouldn't recommend avoiding chemotherapy if
that's what your cancer doctor or your oncologist said to do for your cancer treatment the fact that
she chose not to take chemotherapy puts her at risk for spreading the cancer and getting
more advanced stage of cancer especially to do something like drinking urine which has
no known benefit in improving or killing cancer cells kerry believes her cancer is in remission
but she hasn't seen a doctor in six years and recently carrie made a discovery
i have a mole that i've been watching that's in the middle of my back i can't say
it's melanoma but because it changes daily and it goes from dark to light those are all qualities
so for those of you who don't know melanoma is a very serious type of skin cancer and it's related
to the cells in our skin that give our skin color called melanocytes and these cells can become
cancerous and they generally start from moles on your skin and so dermatologists will recommend
that you observe the moles on your skin and see a dermatologist regularly so they can
examine you and see if there's any concerning findings for potential cancer and warning signs
are moles that start having irregular borders start changing in coloration
or get larger over time and so those are really concerning signs and i'm really worried about
carrie because she hasn't seen a doctor in six years after being diagnosed with a very serious
type of skin cancer a very aggressive and very lethal type of cancer aged urine is real good for
a lotion replacement you put it in your skin and it completely changes the texture moisture this
is my eye cup and i fill it up with urine and then hold it over my eye with my eye open it's not easy
because it burns so urine as a baseline is not sterile so i would not recommend putting urine
in your eye anything that makes your eyes burn is probably not a good idea to put in your eyeballs
so urine is a substance that our body makes that is essentially taking all the waste from our body
and filtering it through our kidneys and it goes through a very extensive filtration process
so that it's basically come down to the things that our body needs to get rid of in order for
us to function appropriately that's why when people stop making urine or their kidneys stop
functioning they need to go on something called dialysis so that their blood can be filtered
appropriately so urine is 90 to 95 percent water but it does include a number of other things
including urea which is a breakdown product of proteins as well as creatinine which is
essentially the waste from our body as well as a number of electrolytes including sodium phosphate
and other things such as that so people do talk about drinking urine when they're in survival
situations where there's no water available but actually because of all these extra substances in
the urine if you drink it it will actually serve not to hydrate you but actually dehydrate you
further so it's actually not a good idea to drink urine if you're in a situation where you're maybe
getting dehydrated there are filters that are being made in fact i just read this article right
here that talks about filters specifically that are made that can help filter out some of these
substances to allow urine to be drinkable which are certainly new and not widely available so i
would not recommend it unless you have one of these proven filters that makes urine safe to
drink however urine is not sterile a lot of people think that urine is sterile but there's more and
more data to suggest even in people who don't have symptoms of a urinary tract infection or
feel completely normal that there are low levels of bacteria in urine so drinking it
or putting it in your eye can actually cause you to get exposed to infectious diseases yeah
so don't put it in your eye or drink it for that matter tell me what the purpose is behind that
well i believe it's very much a natural thing that we're supposed to be doing
my body's cleaner so it's making it cleaner and you know your body's cleaner huh by drinking it it
cleans it but how do you know that how do i know it feels clean well less pain agony and misery
so when people really want to believe that something is going to work then they can
very often actually start seeing proof that it's actually working and that's called the placebo
effect and in fact it depends on the specific condition but we've seen placebo effects as high
as in 50 of patients who are taking medication a placebo medication for a certain condition in
medicine when we want to make sure that something is effective for a condition we do what's called
a randomized controlled trial and what that is is we take people and we divide them into two
groups one group gets a placebo or a sugar pill if you're testing a medication and the other group
gets the active medication and you compare those two to see that there's actually a difference
and if you look at all these randomized controlled trials of different medical conditions you'll find
that people in the placebo arm tend to get better because they will believe that they're getting a
medication that actually gets them better and so their symptoms will improve despite not getting
any active medication at all and this is probably what this woman is really experiencing is that
she believes that drinking urine is going to help her cancer and help her body feel cleaner
when in fact nothing is really happening in fact she might even be harming her body what is it
you would suggest in terms of your urine therapy i would recommend taking a little hiatus for a while
and i suggest a biopsy of that spot on your back i'm very adverse to knives
this has grown from a very sick place inside if we cut it from out here it signals that
inside go bananas so i understand that people are very concerned when they're about to have
treatments and they feel like they don't really understand the purpose of them
and so in this case this woman is getting a biopsy of a suspicious lesion so that we can look at it
under a microscope to see if it's cancerous or not and we can't in good conscious do treatment
for a potential recurrence of cancer if we don't know that it's cancer in fact treatment for cancer
is actually to remove the cancer from your body if it's possible so if it's localized
very often the treatment for melanomas or other types of cancer are actually
removing the cancerous tissue and that doesn't cause spreading of the cancer that's actually
curative in some cases of cancer sometimes you'll require additional treatments to get rid of
metastatic or disease that's advanced beyond the original tumor or disease that's maybe microscopic
that we can't see with our eyes on imaging tests that may be cancerous cells and so you'll give
treatment like radiation or chemotherapy to help treat those cancer cells that have spread
but it does not actually cause spreading of the cancer itself if you ever did consent to a biopsy
and it came back showing that the cancer has recurred would you ever consider that
the urine therapy had failed and you'd be interested in pursuing something different
from everything i've read if i quit i'll die i encourage people to go ahead and search and read
and learn about their disease process but you need to know to look for sources that are reliable and
that people have actually done clinical studies to prove that this is efficacious i certainly
know that there is a lot of things that we in the medical field are still studying and may not know
and may have value but it's important for everyone including myself and my patients to keep an open
mind that maybe what they've read online is not accurate and that they should consider that these
people who spent many years training and educating themselves are the true experts on the condition
so i really hope this woman actually did okay uh because i'm really concerned that she might not
make it well that was quite an episode bottom line i really hope that carrie stays healthy
and gets the care that she needs and i hope that people in general will not watch this and think
that urine therapy is going to cure their cancer because there's certainly no magical potion in
urine that would have any benefit on preventing cells from multiplying and spreading in your
body which is essentially what a cancer does if you have other episodes you want me to react to
please comment down below and as always remember to take care of yourself because you're worth it