Salt

If we end up far from an ocean salt will be a challenge. No wonder it is reported to have been used as currency in the past. Modern medical opinion has folks pretty much panicked about excessive salt intake, but the word I get is that if one impugns sugar in any way then research funds mysteriously disappear. Salt is essential. In our desert trip this summer I once again was physically reminded of what my body does when it runs low on salt. Contrast that with sugar. I feel great when I stay off of sugar, even better when I eat no carbs at all. No such thing as an essential carbohydrate acid I guess, eh? So has anyone openly discussed drinking one's own urine? The practice saves salt, and supplements enzymes, which are sorely lacking if you eat cooked food. I did it for a few months after getting over the emotional hindrances.

I had no ill effects, and discovered that the flavors involved became a remarkable way to find out what had been going on in my bloodstream. Urine is made of things that already passed into the bloodstream via the G.I. tract. If your intestines are working right then you are not absorbing toxins into the bloodstream. The kidneys simply are balancing all the nutrients by letting the surplus go in urine. Then why drink it if it is extra stuff of what you have already? I decided that since most of my food was cooked the addition of extra enzymes would be a friendly boost to the little flora and fauna making their home in my insides. Perhaps a tiny assist for the intestinal immune system, where mucous but no blood is normally allowed.

Bring up autourine ingestion in polite company however, and let's say that my spouse leaves the room. It is emotional. How emotional is drinking nutrasweet? That gets me emotional. Go figure. Consider anecdotal reports of folks trapped in caves for longer than a few weeks who survived by drinking their own extra nutrients. I have fantasized escaping from my rest home on foot when I am really old and just seeing how far I can make it, moving at night and sleeping under piles of leaves in the day. If you want to distill urine as my wife does you can still save any extra salt via methods recently described. Be forewarned that salt does not magically appear. If I don't eat it then there is no salty urine flavor at all.

Offered by Steve.