getting down to brass on life extension

Does not address the excess salt intake.
Does not address the reintroduction of toxins, such as urea, and other poisons that were removed from the bloodstream (introduced to the blood through the colon), now being reintroduced back into the body.
Does not address the extra work that the kidneys need to do in extra filtering.

A lot of people that find themselves without water, and end up subsisting off of their urine for a time, end up in the hospital after its all over for kidney stress and inflammation. Granted, these people are drinking it to the extreme, not just in smaller amounts (as in the recommendation in these pro-urine therapy propaganda articles), but it feels clear to me that extra filtering even on a much smaller scale still yields extra kidney stress (if to a much smaller degree and probably imperceptible). For me, I don’t want to damage my kidneys even to a tiny miniscule degree just to extract a few extra hormone precursors that got flushed.

Even if urine contains some vital substances, the body still removed them for a reason. This is why it is safe to water-soluble vitamins, like Vitamin C and B complex etc, because whatever is excess, the body will flush through your urine. Yes, if you consume your urine, you reintroduce these vitamins back into your body . . . I don’t disagree with this . . . but this is exactly what the body does NOT want, because it is in excess. You are effectively poisoning yourself, overriding the body’s safeguard mechanism to prevent an excess of the water-soluble vitamin.

All things considered, it does not sound like a good idea to me.
If other people want to do this, great.

But for me, I’m not going to latch on to every off-the-wall esoteric recommendation, if it does not pass my intuitive gut reaction.

Many people create problems for themselves by attaching themselves to fancy ideas of the head, without listening to what their gut brain is telling them. If your gut is sending a message that something is probably wrong, then it probably is . . . at least for you, personally.

For me, if it doesn’t pass the gut brain test, the lower dantian test, I don’t do it, regardless of how many rave reviews I get from others.

S

If people want to get wet and smell like pee, and they get turned on by it, hey whatever makes them happy.

As far as urine being used therapeutically externally, such as on cuts and scrapes, etc., this makes somewhat more sense to me. It’s effectively salt water on the wound, is sterile (no bacteria), and is easy to produce. I don’t personally use it, but wouldn’t have any qualms about doing so.

In some ways, it would probably be beneficial.
Odor is probably the only issue.

S

Dashanami Sampradaya (IAST Daúanâmi Saṃpradâya “Tradition of Ten Names”) is a Hindu monastic tradition of Ekadandi sannyasins (wandering renunciates carrying a single staff) generally associated with the Advaita Vedanta tradition. They are distinct in their practices from the Saiva Tridandi sannyâsins or “trident renunciates” and from Vaisnava sannyâsins.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashanami_Sampradaya

In our daily life our minds are almost continually externalized. We see and hear only what is going on outside of us, and we have little understanding of the events taking place in our inner environment. The practice of antar mouna is designed to turn this around, so that for at least a short period we can see the workings of our mind and understand them. In reality antar mouna is one of the few ‘permanent sadhanas’ which can be practiced spontaneously all the twenty-four hours of the day by anyone who is really determined to know oneself. By maintaining awareness of one’s internal environment, thought, emotional reactions etc., one can speed up one’s personal evolution to the utmost degree. It will make one understand the workings of one’s own rational and irratioonal mind, as well as giving one an understanding of what makes othe people tick.
-SWAMI SATYANANDA SARASWATI, Meditations from the Tantras

When used as a word to refer to mixed drinks generally, cocktail may mean any kind of alcoholic mixed drink that contains two or more ingredients. As generally understood today, a cocktail requires at least one alcoholic component—typically a distilled spirit, although beer and wine are permissible—and one sweet component; it may also contain a souring or bittering ingredient.
Traditionally cocktails were a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail

Here one should again, like with raw/living food, be open minded (<=analytical mind).

Here the enemy is the uncultivated reactive mind.

Actually these two (urine drinking & living food) should go quite well together when righ yogic practices have been mastered far enough.

HOWDY

Ps. Sorry for my broken English.

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