Urine therapy, the practice of using urine to supposedly cure a range of ailments and diseases, is not based in science. But people believe in it.

Urine therapy's possible side effects, such as diarrhea, fatigue, fever, muscle soreness, may increase based on the amount ingested.

About once a week at the Boulder Public Library the Urine Therapy Group of Colorado meets up, with members discussing how drinking their pee has cured them from all sorts of ailments.

Urine therapy may arise out of the idea that urine is initially sterile when leaving the body. Many people, including doctors, believe the urine lacks harmful bacteria at this stage.

“Fasting and urine therapy combined will heal anything on this planet,” he wrote in one Insta post before going on to list some of the perceived health pros which he says include helping to heal ...

Surprisingly, urine has other benefits; scientists recognize that urine is antibacterial, anti-protozoal, anti-fungal, anti-viral, and anti-tuberculostatic (prevents tuberculosis). Judgement ...

Macor said urine therapy dates back some 4,000 years and is called Shivambhu. The group points to a book "Healing Water From Within" by Boulder resident Brother Sage as proof.

About once a week at the Boulder Public Library the Urine Therapy Group of Colorado meets up, with members discussing how drinking their pee has cured them from all sorts of ailments.