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Google SGE Says Drink Urine to Pass Kidney Stones Quickly
- gertlex 2y agoSeems like a pretty human thing to do, or at least something I (a human I think) have done. Type a bunch of sentences about a couple nouns and occasionally your brain types the other one as you're thinking ahead! Certainly, I try to catch my own mistakes like this, but we've had years of hastily written online articles with typos/mistakes like this, that were fed right in to the various "AIs".
- theGeatZhopa 2y agoI thought you're talking about drinking urine.. :)
- gertlex 2y agoHah. Well that's was a fun "here's how humans think" thought that totally missed checking for "here's how things can be read multiple ways".
- growt 2y agoCould be worse. Urine is sterile, so nobody will die or explode following this advice.
- Cannabat 2y agoUrine is not sterile [0], but it probably won't hurt you either. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25766599/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25766599/
- kyruzic 2y agoNo it's not. https://www.healthline.com/health/is-urine-sterile https://www.healthline.com/health/is-urine-sterile You aren't gonna die from drinking it, but it isn't sterile.
- theGeatZhopa 2y agoYou lough but there is some truth behind it. Urine (yiikk) is known for some effects on wound healing and some other things. (Yiiiiiiiiik) So, our kidneys filter stuff out of our blood. They make a highly saturated concentrate, that will be diluted by addition of water. Also, the acidicy is regulated by bicarbonate in our body. There's one thing got los over the time: in the beginning of treatment of kidney failure with dialysis, there have been a strange observation: One doc wanted to regulate acidicy by supplying bicarbonate intravenously. But the calculations of the needed dosis wekt wrong, so the patient got way toooo much of bicarbonate. His body reacted with opening of the flood gates - the patient went to the bucket like - he never left it. So drinking urine you get more of the stuff our body wants to get rid of. The more of stuff, the more it wants to get ridden of.
- OutOfHere 2y agoIt is complete nonsense. Drinking urine will only aggravate the kidney that is already under heavy stress. It will now have to filter more waste. Moreover, drinking urine will in no way help pass a stone. The one thing that actually helps is exactly a half dose of a diuretic like furosemide, if combined with enough water, but even then it depends on the size of the stone.
- theGeatZhopa 2y agoNot a nonsense if you take into account that one kidney is more than enough for our bodies. So two are not under a heavy stress as you say. Even if you would readd the filtered waste (which is also not solid waste, but rather small amounts diluted in water), there's still plenty of "capacity". Furosemide is diuretic. Among others. I don't say you should drink urine, but consider: - its water+x. When you have kidney stones, you have to drink more. Check. - its water+x. If you have more of x in your body, it doesn't necessarily mean the kidneys start to produce more concentrated urine, like a heart beats faster, if more oxygen is needed. But, a part of the x is bicarbonate and urea. If you take in more than necessary of bicarbonate, you'll become alcalosic and your kidneys react to that by watering it out fast. Urea is also diuretic by default. So drinking urine would add more of bicarbonate and urea back and in the end provoke going often to toilet. That's exactly what one need xD check. Just think of the thousands of years and a lot of people of different cultures utilizing urine as medicine or for health benefits :)
- uejfiweun 2y agoWow, generative AI gave someone incorrect information? I'm shocked, just shocked. Thank god for journalists doing groundbreaking investigations like this.
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