10 Most Mind Numbingly Stupid Alternative Medicines

Good news, there's no need to keep spending all of your money on crystals and sugar pills, because the solution to good health, long life and blissful happiness has been within you all along.

And we mean this in a very literal sense.

Apparently, drinking your own brew can have a great many positive health benefits, ranging from curing a hangover to preventing cancer. According to the growing community of widdle drinkers, pee contains a great many vitamins and minerals, as well as it being an excellent source of hydration.

As is so often the case wth alternative treatments, many of the claims are based on some slightly blurry half-truths and rely heavily on the hope that nobody will actually think about it too much. Urine does contain some minerals, but these are mainly salt, and it is mostly made up of water, but then again so is water so why not just drink that instead?

It is also often thrown in there that urine is sterile and there are a couple of problems with this. These being that (a) it's not. Pee is not necessarily sterile and could contain some quite dangerous pathogens and (b) most drinks, such as milk, juice and water, aren't sterile anyway so it obviously doesn't matter.

One of the main things that the pee drinkers seem to be ignoring is that fact that urine is a waste product. It is your body's way of flushing toxins out of your system and if you just go putting it back in again then it somewhat defeats the point.

It would be like a bin man coming into your home and tipping the contents of your wheelie bin onto your kitchen table - gross, pointless and potentially harmful.