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Please suggest drinking my own urine any side effects, any benefit for the health?
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Drinking your own urine isn't advisable. It can introduce bacteria, toxins, and medications into your system. There's no reason to think that drinking urine would benefit your health in any way. There are much more effective routes for getting a high dose of vitamins and minerals. Each time you put it back it will come out again even more concentrated and that is not good for health as it could damage the gut," she told The Independent. "If you are stranded, your body will try to conserve as much water as it can. Drinking your urine would be like drinking seawater
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