> I can imagine the filters in your digestion system > block them, so they end up in your shit, not in your pee. If that's the > case, you'd have a positive balance of water intake. The bowel does not have filters for this. To my knowledge, nothing that is water-soluble is actually filtered by the bowel. > I'd like to hear an > physician on this one. I am one (though this is not my area of particular expertise). --------- Evolution is a very powerful force. If the behavior of drinking one's own urine were an effective way of conserving water, you would see the behavior routinely in animals that live in a water starved environment. Camels would suck on their urethras. You don't see this. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Mar 24 2002 - 08:24:31 PST
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