Can You Drink Your Own Urine to Survive in the Wild? Here’s the Truth

Can you drink your own urine to survive in the wild? Here’s the truth

Bear Grylls says it’s ‘safe’ – but is it?

If you get lost in bush, can you really survive by drinking your own pee?

Melbourne, Jan 1 (The Conversation) TV adventurer Bear Grylls has built a global reputation through his often unconventional and sometimes extreme survival feats to stay hydrated.He has squeezed moisture from elephant dung, sipped the contents of camel intestines, downed yak eyeball juice and, perhaps most famously, drank his own urine.If you’ve seen Grylls gulp down a mouthful of his own urine on camera, you might conclude it’s a legitimate sur…