Healing through Amrita

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On the Habits for Humans podcast, host Kim Flynn talks with Cate Stillman, founder of Yoga Healer and author of Wild Habits, about urine therapy. Stillman says it is found in most ancient and indigenous cultures and that disgust toward it was 'cultured out of us' as a way leaders control people. She mentions Native Americans using urine in their hair to keep it from going gray and people using it in their eyes for cataracts. She describes herself as a heavy user and gives her morning routine: an aged-urine enema, rubbing urine into her body, swishing and drinking fresh urine, drops in her eyes and sniffing it, using aged urine in her eyes and nose. For beginners she suggests starting with what you want to change: aged urine (four days, she says, for the ammonia to off-gas) on eczema, rashes, athlete's foot or wrinkles, swishing for receding gums, or a few diluted drops under the tongue. She explains urine as an ultra-filtrate of blood plasma, about 95 percent water with urea, uric acid, hormones, neurotransmitters, growth hormones and stem cells, and cites a 2021 Barcelona study on urea as a skin softener and hydrator, including for acne. She says urine is an intuitive medicine that teaches you how to use it. She ties it to intermittent fasting, saying people who drink their urine can fast longer without cravings and that her community reports sleeping through the night and losing weight. Asked about the lack of research, she says there are no NIH-funded studies on urine therapy and that the evidence is user data and ancient wisdom. The host says she will try putting urine on her face.

These are the speakers' own experiences. This is not medical advice.