UPDATED May 4th, 2018
Remember the uproar Ke$ha created when she drank her own urine on the 2013 MTV docu-series, Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life? Unlike brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack, in this case the eccentric-outfit-and bright-eye-shadow-sporting pop star may have actually been onto something.
As Coen van der Kroon writes in his book, Golden Fountain: The Complete Guide to Urine (yes, it’s a real book), “By drinking your own urine and massaging yourself with it, you can remain or become perfectly healthy and can recover from the simplest of ailments to the most serious of illnesses.” In fact, for centuries the uses for human urine have been well regarded, and it has been thought to have special healing properties.
