The Surprisingly Useful Medicines Hiding in Pee
Your urine is mostly water, but hidden in there are trace amounts of some very useful stuff! Hosted by: Stefan Chin ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon....
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Maybe you don’t think much about the 1-2 liters of urine you flush down the toilet every day. But when you send it swirling down the drain, you could be getting rid of liquid gold. Because there’s molecular goodness hidden in that pale yellow puddle, which has been used to treat everything from basic infections to menopause. That’s right: there are medicines in your pee. When it makes its way out of you, about 95% of the volume of your urine is water. Of the remaining 5 percent, about half is urea, a molecule your body uses to get rid of nitrogen. There are also some extra ions like chloride and sodium that you don’t need. But the remaining one or two percent is where things get really interesting. That’s where scientists have found trac...
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Maybe you don’t think much about the 1-2 liters of urine you flush down the toilet every day. But when you send it swirling down the drain, you could be getting rid of liquid gold. Because there’s molecular goodness hidden in that pale yellow puddle, which has been used to treat everything from basic infections to menopause. That’s right: there are medicines in your pee. When it makes its way out of you, about 95% of the volume of your urine is water. Of the remaining 5 percent, about half is urea, a molecule your body uses to get rid of nitrogen. There are also some extra ions like chloride and sodium that you don’t need. But the remaining one or two percent is where things get really interesting. That’s where scientists have found trac...
