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Scientists can now accurately tell what you’ve been eating from your pee

Urinalysis has been used for a while, but it’s generally used to detect just a few key chemicals to detect for various drugs or pregnancy or whatnot. But with a new method of urine analysis, your doctor will be able to see what you’ve been eating from your pee without him or her going all Laura Dern in Jurassic Park on your stool sample, and without you lying to them to try to make it sound you eat healthier than you really do.

posted 21 January, 2012
by cranberryzero
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How to clean out your sinuses with urine

That’s certainly one way of many to go about it.

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Diabetic urine used for the fermentation of high-end single malt whisky for export

James Gilpin, like millions of others around the world, suffers from type 1 diabetes. And since diabetic urine, as a side effect of the ailment, is richer is sugar than most people’s urine. And two main things you need in the production of alcohol are water and sugar. So if you can get a good blend of both in one shot, why not use it? I mean other than the fact that it’s piss?

The next big alternative fuel source could be urine

Piss. Everybody makes it and unless you’re one of those kinky fuckers, we usually don’t have much use for it. But scientists in China, where I hear piss is everywhere, have developed a method to use urine to extract electricity and pure, clean water. Maybe one day your car might be powered by these magical Chinese pee machines. Maybe one day, Chinese putting pee-pee in your Coke might not be a joke at all.

Science question of the day: Why is urine yellow?

Answer: Of the three types of cone cells in your retina, the medium and long ones respond the most and tell your brain “yellow” in reaction to the 570 nm reflected light which reaches your eye because the urobilins in urine does not absorb that wavelength of light.