A man who drinks urine every day has claimed it has ‘cured’ his depression.
Harry Matadeen, from Hampshire, says the practice also has anti-ageing benefits, and has left him looking 10 years younger.
The 34-year-old first started drinking his own pee in 2016.
He told Bristol Live: ‘It was beyond my wildest imaginations how powerful it was when I drank it.
‘From the moment I drank the urine, it woke up my brain and removed my depression.“I felt a new sense of peace, calm and determination. I thought “wow I can make it for free and always keep myself in this happy state”.’
He drinks a 200ml cup of pee each day, some of it near a month old.
Harry described the fluid as an ‘acquire taste’ and added that his more-aged urine tends to have a more ‘refined’ taste.
He added: ‘Fresh urine is never as bad as you imagine – it is neutral smelling and not a bad taste unless you are really toxic. But the aged urine is always smelly and the taste is a refined and acquired one.’
Harry’s family don’t approve of the practice, known as ‘urine therapy’, and his sister no longer speaks to him.
But he has a close group of friends who do understand, or even consume urine themselves.
When he’s not drinking his own pee, Harry can also be found rubbing it on his face.
He says it leaves his skin ‘young, soft and glowing.’
He added: ‘Aged urine is the best food for the skin that I have found to date. When you rub it on, it softens the skin and keeps it youthful and elastic.’
But BristolLive also spoke with a GP to shed light on the impact of urine therapy.
Dr Jeff Foster explained that urine is made up of water, ammonia and salts, bacteria and other waste products.
He told the newspaper: ‘Urine is a waste product that contains about 90% water. There are no known reported health benefits from either drinking or rubbing your own urine onto your body (or anyone else’s urine).
‘Orally, it is much worse – it can actually speed up the dehydration process and potentially introduce bacteria.
‘Waste products are waste for a reason.’
Last year, footage emerged of a London mayoral candidate drinking his own urine.
London Real candidate Brian Rose had posted a clip of himself describing the fluid as ‘a little salty’.
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