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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 1/7/2009, 9:03 pm Post subject: Thank God this one is finally settled! |
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Ask the Expert, Backpacker Magazine
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If It Came to Surviving, Could I Drink Urine?
Q.} Will drinking urine when no water is available allow you to survive longer? I have heard conflicting information.
Submitted by: Dan, Toronto, ON
A.} Let's take a step back from the pee bottle. Without water, you start dehydrating and your urine output decreases. In addition, your urine increases in the concentration of waste products (and that's why it gets darker in color). In short, there won't be much urine to drink, and what there is will be bad for you. The SAS Survival Handbook says it all: Never drink urine—never! _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 1/8/2009, 5:09 am Post subject: |
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Well, shoot. I just couldn't wait to try it, and now it turns out it's another one of those things that's bad for you. Sheesh. What is the world coming to if you can't drink your own pee?
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Hnak
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ
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Posted: 1/8/2009, 10:29 am Post subject: |
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I'm guessing that if your body could use it, it wouldn't be getting rid of it.... _________________ The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. —EDWARD ABBEY |
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MikeInFHAZ
Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 1401 Location: location location
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Posted: 1/8/2009, 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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I think that's been common knowledge since back in 1784 when August Busch the 1st tried using urine to brew beer. His Buddy was Wiser and went by the name of Sam Adams... who decided to use purified water instead... _________________ http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albwb18/BRIDGE.sized.jpg
bridge hammock, quilts and tarp (all DIY)
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wanderingsoul
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 2285 Location: Gilbert AZ
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Posted: 1/8/2009, 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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Beer is made with water, Phew, That's a relief.... Never heard of the other attempt, gave me the chills _________________ Wanderingsoul (Michelle)
Positive Thinking Is the Spark that Makes Dreams Happen~~~Unknown |
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fairweather8588
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 716
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Posted: 1/8/2009, 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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MikeInFHAZ wrote: |
... tried using urine to brew beer...
decided to use purified water instead... |
Aha, so thats what I'm doing wrong... _________________ But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious
Kerouac |
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azhiker96
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1419
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Posted: 1/8/2009, 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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I shouldn't drink my own urine?!?!? Stop it! Stop it! Next you'll probably try to tell me the world's not flat! _________________ It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan |
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Trishness The Snake Charmer
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 2530 Location: Apache Jct, AZ
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Posted: 1/8/2009, 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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yuck...no way.
There's a reason my body puts this out as a waste product.
_________________ ~~~Trish~~~
"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." � J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings. |
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maryphyl Grand Canyon Enchantress
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 669 Location: Flagstaff
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Posted: 1/10/2009, 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Well, Backpacker magazine should know if anyone does hmmmm _________________ Shikekeh hozhoogo naasha.
I walk in beauty. |
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YH Hooli Wants to be just like me!
Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 387 Location: Portland, OR and Yosemite on a good day.
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Posted: 1/10/2009, 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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You should never drink your own urine. However, it is apparently safe to drink a Panther's. Hooli says Tom's been drinking it out of a can for years! |
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