Why Is My Pee Green?
How worried should you be when your urine isn't yellow, but instead it's green, red, or even black? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.pa...
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You’ve probably noticed that your urine changes color slightly day to day, usually depending on how much water you’ve been drinking. But have you ever looked down and seen like a more surprising color in the toilet? Like red? Or green? Yeah. Green pee is a thing. So is blue, purple, orange, and even black. Sometimes a weird color is a sign that something is wrong with you. But other times, it’s just evidence that you ate a certain food or medicine. So, let’s go through the rainbow of potential pee colors… starting out with yellow, because that’s the normal one. The yellow color of urine comes from urochrome, which is one of the waste products that your body makes when it breaks down red blood cells. The precise shade of yellow depends o...
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You’ve probably noticed that your urine changes color slightly day to day, usually depending on how much water you’ve been drinking. But have you ever looked down and seen like a more surprising color in the toilet? Like red? Or green? Yeah. Green pee is a thing. So is blue, purple, orange, and even black. Sometimes a weird color is a sign that something is wrong with you. But other times, it’s just evidence that you ate a certain food or medicine. So, let’s go through the rainbow of potential pee colors… starting out with yellow, because that’s the normal one. The yellow color of urine comes from urochrome, which is one of the waste products that your body makes when it breaks down red blood cells. The precise shade of yellow depends o...
