5 Start Your Day with a Glass of Urine

In my opinion, most smells originate in body oders, or from what people eat and the way they live. People who eat a lot of fish will naturally smell fishy, and those who take garlic for their health will smell garlicky. So it's only natural that people who for millenniums neither practiced toilet training nor required toilet paper would smell like animals.

I will not go into the lives of the Canadian Indians or my life in Toronto here, although my story is related to the lives of about 100 people living in Toronto. That's because they all drink their own urine each morning.

For the past three and a half years (at this stage, I have been prancticing it for almost 35 years), I have drunk my own urine daily without fail. The reason is my chance encounter with an ethnic Indian in Toronto and the tremendous change in my health that resulted.

"Why should you drink urine? It's unthinkable. You'll get sick."

"This must be the end of the world. How can you even consider an outrageous idea like drinking urine when science has developed this far..."

"There's no way bodily excrement like urine can be good for you. Maybe animals drink urine, but humans don't need to because we're not four-legged creatures."

I can still hear these outraged rebuttals ringing in my ears. Questions and doubts gush forth one after another. Such quaestions are only natural. Indeed, I was not without such doubts and fears myself when I first began to drink urine.

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But inexplicably, it no longer bothered me after living with the villagers for a spell. Instead, whenever I visited my mother in Toronto, she would tell me how much I stank and order me to change my clothes and take a bath.

I should note that this episode refers to the reservations that had drifted into a slum-like state. Prior to the white man's settlement of the North American continent, the sanitary customs of the Indians differed from tribe to tribe.Some Indians, infact, used a sweat lodge, or sauna-like bath.

In my work some 14 or 15 years ago as a flight attendant on a foreign airline, I realized that each country I visited had a distinctive smell. The lobby of Kimpo Airport in South Korea smelled of garlic, whereas the smell of beef and the disinfectant sprayed on it permeated virtually all the cargo that was stored and transported from airports in the United States.

Americans often describe Japan as "fishy smelling." Interestingly, people may be highly attuned to the smells of other countries, but pay no attention to that of their own countries. Since I often travel abroad, I make a conscious effort to take in Japan's smell each time I return, but I have yet to drink in that fishy odor to my fullest satisfaction.

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One cold winter day, I drove the villagers to Kenora, the white man's settlement closest to the reservation. Naturally it was impossible to drive without turning on the heater. Soon after we departed, the car was filled with a smell not unlike that of a wild animal. I thought of opening the window, but it was minus 30 degrees below outside. Besides, I couldn't bring myself to tell the villagers I had to open the window because they stank. So I ended up enduring the odor for the two-hour drive. During that time, though, I nonchalantly asked them about the smell. I thought broaching the subject was rude, but felt the only way to learn the facts was to ask.

One of them had a surprisingly frank response.

"In the old days, we lived side by side with the animals. We didn't take baths because if we smelled like humans during our hunts the animals would run away, but they wouldn't notice us even at close range if we smelled like them. Back then, we hunted with bow and arrow, so it was necessary to get into close range. We had no custom of taking baths like the white men until recently. And besides, most Indians don't use toilet paper. Today more young people have begun to do so, but in the old days, no one used anything, but just left their butts untouched. That's why we smell. It's only natural. But it doesn't bother me a bit since I smell just like the rest of the villagers. The only reason it bothers you is because you come from a different smelly world of your own. You should quit taking a baths and using toilet paper if you are bothered by our smell. You won't notice it at all once you smell like everyone else."

Even though the notion of smelling like everyone else might have eased any unpleasant feelings I had about the smell, it was hard to accept the idea of giving up toilet paper. So I continued to be bothered by it for a while.

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Let me offer an example. While living with the indigenous Indians of Canada, I learned that unlike children in the West most Indian children do not undergo toilet training. When I visited Indian homes on the reservations sometimes I would be struck by strange smell that apparently did not bother anyone else. The source of the odor would usually be a baby in Pampers which were overflowing with some yellow or indescribably colored matter dribbling down, often sticking to the baby's inner thighs as it toddled along, and at times dripping down on the floor. Family members did not appear to mind the child's condition much and would leave the dribblings as they fell.

Out of respect to visitors like myself, however, the mother would often wearily get up and dispose of the matter in a paper bag or some other thing which she would toss into a garbage bag or out the window.

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　　　The Family Secrets and Oral Traditions of Urine Therapy

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　by Kobun Miyamatsu

Introduction

Think about it. From the moment we are born, we find ourselves wrapped in diapers. We grow up constantly hearing our mothers' complaints about the stink each time they change them. It's almost as if we have committed some kind of heinous crime by urinating and defecating.

It's not uncommon for a mother sometimes to forget to dispose of a changed diaper and leave it in the corner of the room. Should the curious baby crawl over and touch it, the mother admonishes the baby with an almost hysterical, "No,no, DIRTY, DIRTY!" and snatches it away.

Having been reared in this way, anyone would consider urine dirty and smelly. Such reactions are only natural. Our image would be the exact opposite if we were raised to view urine as clean and fragrant.