Don’t hate me for my Greek villa. Hate me because I love my life.
It’s always nice to be home.
Melbourne in spring is always special. The season itself is lovely. Who doesn’t like flowers? But there’s this amazing feeling of a couple of million people emerging out from under a shared tyranny.
Winter. We made it. And like siege hostages shuffling out of the compound doors to greet the glaring sun and TV cameras, Melbournians step and stumble into spring, with a strong sense of camaraderie and civic pride.
I’m joining them in that warm sense of relief and achievement, but I’m not letting on that I buggered off to Greece for a good chunk of winter and spent most my days pissing about on boats and eating fresh-caught sea-food.
“Yes that winter was a doozy. Oh you got that flu too? Yes, thank the stars that spring is here. Aren’t the gerbera’s just lovely?”
And the procession of beauty and pleasure that my life seems to have become, continues.
I don’t like to go on about my lifestyle too much. I mean, I don’t want to be a wanker about it. I know that I got lucky. I put in some hard yards too, but even at the level of being born at the right place at the right time, I know fortune has had a hand in the life that I’ve been blessed with.
So I don’t want to be all, “ohh look at my Maserati and ocelot breeding program.” It’s poor taste when I know that there are others much less fortunate than I am. (And I know that because there have been times in my life where I’ve been a lot less fortunate than I am today too.)
But I also don’t want to go on about it because it’s just not the point.
Sure, I can trade a good chunk of Melbourne winter for a private yacht in the Greek islands, but at the end of the day, I’m just an average bloke doing average things – just with a little more freedom than most.
And if you’re measuring a life in pleasure, you’re measuring it wrong.
I mean there was a point there where I was sitting back on the deck, bbq octopus in one hand, a very drinkable white in the other, and I’m thinking, yep, this is the life.
But I wouldn’t want it to be my life. I would like my life to have moments like that on a regular basis, but I don’t want to be stuck on a boat for the rest of my days.
In the new field of “Happiness Studies” they say there’s two ways that we interpret the question “Are you happy?”
The first way is about where we sit on the pleasure/pain spectrum right now in this moment. This happiness is about how much we’re enjoying the right now.
“Well, maybe just a little top-up, Jeeves.”
The other perspective on happiness is about how satisfied we are with where our life is going? This is a much broader perspective, and it’s about our relationships, where we’re at in our career, how well we’ve done relative to others, and so on.
In this case, ‘are you happy?’ really means ‘do you like your life?’
(This is what the psychologists say. Read Daniel Kannehman’s ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’. It will change your life.)
What’s interesting is that while these are wildly different ideas – How much pleasure do I feel now?, and Do I like my life? – we lump them both together in a box called ‘happiness’.
This seems to lead to a lot of confusion. It’s like a lot of people are trying to create life-happiness, by focusing on moment-happiness.
So I need a bigger tv, better shoes, a hotter wife…
These things might bring you higher momentary pleasure, but they won’t make you feel better about your life.
Or if they’re trying to build a life they love, they try to create a life with lots of exotic holidays, cocktails and footrubs.
Focusing on those momentary pleasures won’t necessarily help you build a life you love. They often go together, but not always.
And there’s an opportunity lost. When you realise that you’re trying to build a life you love, there’s more scope to apply your considerable intellect to the task. To marry the means and the ends.
If you’re just trying to build a life with more opportunities for chocolate and exotic dances, there’s just confusion.
Or worse still, you end up with hollow victories. You find that for all the flashy cars and ocelots in the billiard room, you still feel miserable.
So if I talk about my lifestyle, I try to focus on the things I like about my life, not the things that bring me momentary pleasure.
And for me, that’s being my own boss. Having the freedom to go where I want and do what I want. It’s the satisfaction that comes with providing an awesome life for my family, and the beautiful connection I have with the wife and kids.
This is the stuff that matters. It just doesn’t lend itself as well to Instagram as an ocelot sitting in a Maserati.
And the advice that I would offer, is that life is a lot easier when you’re focused on the bigger picture – on life happiness. There are so many ways you can do something like “build connection with the kids”. With options comes freedom.
There’s only one way to actualise something momentary like ‘hot Jamacian dude massage’. With a lack of options comes frustration.
So relax. Relax your focus, and work on the broad sweep of your life. It is patient and gentle work. But the payoff is huge.
This is where enduring happiness comes from.
Apart from Spring, what are you ‘life-happy’ about?
Paul says
Thanks Jon I now know what an Ocelot is.
ron says
i just dunno what is an ‘ocelot’? happiness is relative to what you have experienced..it contrasts with unhappiness.. and to experience anything you need to have a contrast. one cannot live in a state of bliss forever. there must be a contrast or you wouldn’t know that it is bliss:-) pain is contrasted with relief etc etc. happiness for me is a myriad of things. springtime in perth means ..wildflowers. you may have heard of our wildflower exhibitions in kings park etc. people from all over the world come to kings park overlooking perth city. happiness is when i talk with my wife. she is delightful woman. and my kids..all 9 of them. six here in oz, three more in the udon(northern thailand). marvellous place udon thani. a contrast in lifestyles. completely unsophisticated and my wife calls me ‘big dummy
‘ lol. but i love her. her silky smooth almond coloured skin, flowing jet black hair down to her waist. and a brilliant beautiful smile. i do go on..but you asked for it. i travel to see her and she comes here a lot. what was that about leaving your wife for a time to appreciate each other? i always fly thai airlines. and i am super happy to change my oz dollars for thai baht at the suvarnabhoomi airport kiosks. you know about 25 baht to the dollar. so 1000 bucks becomes about 25,000 baht 🙂 but darn it i can’t afford a maserati and become a ..er ocelot! good day jonno
Keith Jacob says
I am always happy to see and hear others finding that gratitude and a thankful heart brings the most healthy attitude to how we see ourselves in this life.
I really enjoyed Jon’s narrative today, because it reinforces that it’s not just pleasures ‘on tap’ that alone gives happiness but those ‘whole of life’ considerations too like making progress in things that realy do matter. Nicely written Jon !
Lifes is a journey towards achieving new goals as they become clear to us.
You seem like a nice chap Jon, I imagine one might not know your material abundance because you realise flaunting it does not make others like you any better but often destroys friendships because of envy. Wealth comes to some easier than others and that’s from their good luck, peristence and God’s blessings. Q. Are there not so many really talented, diligent, honest, hard working people that never escape the treadmill?
What Ron adds is also so valuable. That it really is the contrast in life that creates the joy and gives appreciation.
A few months in Bali, Greece, Perth or Thailand and we lose the pleasure as we acclimate. It is then our mind begins to wonder if somewhere else is gonna be better? So yes, I agree variety is the chilli of life, but amidst it all, we do well to practice contentment and thankfullness.
We Australians here have all won the lottery in life, (despite its trials and tests), imagine life in Alepo this year ! . Cheers ! Keith also from Perth.
Jon Giaan says
cheers Keith.
David Hancock says
PS…..NO BS……Is that really your place in the picture? I thought it looked like my place….. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0e893dd343dabea0ba757d4a0e8b7b35dfc2f09490b5436bf9f9fa17cbc00bdb.jpg
Jon Giaan says
is that you in the picture David? Those pilates classes are really paying off.
ron says
what is it/he/she paul? a cousin of sir lancelot? i am still none the wiser and nobody i know knows either..it must be an eastern states derivative and hasn’t crossed the nullabor yet. we live in ignorant bliss. obtw david…thats MY sweetheart
Paul says
Just Google it Ron
It’s from the cat family
Tom says
Amazed again Jon. Well done.
To me one of the most significant aspects of happiness is the health of all round me.
At the start of your reverie, you asked if we got that flu.
For anybody who wishes to be certain to avoid all such maladies, may I suggest you do a little research on “Shivambu”, as the one-time PM of India Mr Desai called ‘Urine Therapy’.
Many, to their own loss get squeamish at the thought of utilising their own free, perfect medicine.
Everybody owes it to themselves and to their family to make the effort to find out about it.
If you do the research, you will be amazed at what you find out.
There have been hundreds of scientific studies performed, with amazingly wonderful results.
The problem is that what shortly before was circulating as part of your life-sustaining blood cannot be patented by Big Pharma, so they go out of their way to deter us from following nature’s designs, so that we will sell our lives to their business model.
Our ‘HEALTH’ is the last consideration of the ‘Health Industry’ – more correctly called the ‘Sickness Industry’.
I have a friend who a few years ago was working as product manager for one of the smaller pharmaceutical companies. His company was forced by the BIG companies to withdraw his product from the market – not because of any adverse effects – on the contrary – BECAUSE IT WAS TOO EFFECTIVE!!! People were able to overcome their ailment entirely, meaning that they would no longer be slavishly buying more medications. Big Pharma was losing business!!! Das ist verboten. Take it off the market.
It is the same with urine therapy. The fewer people who find out how to avoid any use of the industry’s expensive, patented drugs, the happier they are. The industry would lose Billion$$$.
Those same companies have financed extensive research, not with a view of telling people how to freely control the bulk of ailments and infections for themselves, but in order to create patent-able products which will make them a fortune.
Our own immune systems are working non-stop at maintaining a desirable environment for our body cells to function and renew themselves. The ideal growing conditions for our own body cells are also ideal for many undesirable organisms, so there is a constant battle going on.
In this multi-faceted process, our bodies produce a multitude of chemicals, which in minute amounts aid in the process of maintaining that inner balance. When the kidneys filter the blood, any surplus, above the desirable concentration, is passed into the urine.
Big Pharma knows perfectly well that your urine is your perfect medicine, but they don’t want the public to know, so they do everything in their power, (and that is VERY considerable), to keep us in the dark.
They know that it is the liver which filters out the undesirable materials from the blood, when it first comes from the intestines. This material is passed out in the faeces, along with solid waste
They know that urine is sterile. That it contains only excess water and other desirable materials above the body’s requirements. According to the research, if you have a urinary infection, urine therapy will clear it up.
Urine therapy is natural. You will find animals licking urine from the private parts of their fellows – even on TV recently.
When you do your research, any reticence will be swept aside by the sheer weight of evidence.
Personally, it was difficult initially, (over twenty five years ago), to overcome my squeamishness.
You don’t have to advertise that you practice ‘Shivambu’.
Only those who matter need know – and even they need not know, if you want to keep it secret. Some people would just never understand. Preconceived ideas die hard.
Good health is only a short step away, I assure you.
I know from personal experience that a sip of urine each time I relieved myself recently cured toothache on two occasions.
Microbial infections, viral and bacterial, are things of the past.
If you are doubtful, you can ask your GP, but very few of them are as well versed as you will be after doing your research!!! Mostly they are slaves of the sickness industry, having been kept in the dark by their masters. If you are lucky, your GP may know. Mine tells me not to tell anybody, for fear of being ridiculed. As if other people’s feelings are more important to me than my own health!!! Get real.
Simon says
You forgot to include the links to the double blind studies proving the efficacy of your fetish.
Tom says
Simon, with all respects, it appears to me that you are pre-judging my suggestion. There has been so much research done by Big Pharma, that it would sink a ship!!!
Better that you read it for yourself.
You will literally be flabbergasted when you discover the amazing truth which is being kept from you!!! You will ask yourself how the powerful lobbies have been able and even allowed to keep you in the dark, so effectively.
My whole point is that having benefitted personally, on an on-going basis from practicing Shivambu, a centuries-old Ayurvedic traditional practice, I would advise that any open-minded, unbiased freethinker should do their own research, to satisfy
themselves rather than be led by me or any other into mindlessly following any
advice regarding their health.
While the modern medical profession has done wonderful things for many, much abuse of people’s wellbeing has been perpetrated by unscrupulous companies, whose interest is solely their financial gain. Beneficial treatments are frequently kept from us and so many blindly accept the advice peddled by the sickness industry, to their own personal detriment.
As an aside, it also amazes me that our governmental authorities insist that doctors have a duty of care, yet food processors are free to peddle products which have been shown irrefutably to be deleterious to our health.
Surely they also have a duty of care!!!
They have blatantly ignored the health of their customers in their search for profit, in much the same way that Big Pharma goes out of its way to provide no medications which actually HEAL, because they prefer to keep us unwell and purchasing more of their ameliorating money spinners.
I personally have benefitted from Shivambu and I would invite any others who are genuinely concerned for their health and longevity to go to the reports by the qualified scientists. Public libraries should have books available and there is much material available online, both in blogs and in books for sale. In those papers and
reports you will find all the double blind, multi-replicate trials conducted in impeccable scientific fashion. However, Big Pharma would prefer that you remain ignorant of what even their own researchers have discovered – because the beneficial materials themselves cannot be patented.
We need a philanthropic, humanitarian organisation to thumb its nose at Big Pharma and provide the public with whatever un-patentable materials and processes are found to benefit humanity itself rather than just the wealthy power brokers. For example, the electronic circuitry, designed by Dr Bob Beck, and deliberately put into the public domain to preclude any patenting, are capable of very cheaply protecting the public from epidemics, like Ebola or Zika. You can download the circuit design for free and build the zapper unit yourself for a few dollars. This would protect your whole family. But the sickness industry prefers to let numerous people unnecessarily suffer and even die, while they develop an expensive patented vaccine.
Incidentally, my inference regarding your use of the term “fetish” is that you are implying that I suffer from some form of warped mental process, simply because I like to follow nature rather than the precepts of the self-interested, money-hungry, inhumane multinationals. I hope you are not correct. Time may tell. But I suspect that I shall be still practicing side-effect-free, gentle and natural Shivambu long after many of the much younger slavish followers of Big Pharma are pushing up daisies.
The choice is yours as to whether you wish to be free and master of your own destiny.
Simon says
Thanks, could you repost a reply without the rhetoric, and with any evidence of substance.
The principle benefit of placebo medicine came from a time where the alternative was bloodletting, raising a blister, etc.
Now we have good science, we can test for deficiencies and correct them,
if you are deficient in certain minerals or vitamins, you won’t find them in your own piss,
It’s good that you want to help people, have a look at the other ayurvedic medicines that actually have medicinal properties, like turmeric.
Tom BSc BAgSc says
Hi Simon,
I thought it was Simon the leader and Thomas the doubter!!!
You’ve turned the tables on me.
You have evidently ignored my advice to do your own research and satisfy yourself as to the veracity or otherwise of my overriding thesis.
Had you made that effort, you would be thanking me, because you would be so amazed at the benefits available and flabbergasted to find that the industry which likes to parade as the “Health Industry” could be sitting on so much positive information, yet go out of its way to dissuade people from availing themselves of nature’s own perfect medicine – simply because of their greed. Our health and welfare are the furthest things from their minds.
Big Pharma has spent millions, possibly billions on related research.
Can you imagine that the money hungry multinational pharmaceutical companies would still be spending that sort of money on researching urine therapy, if it was a matter of a “placebo” effect? I think “definitely not!!!”
They have already patented a number of products identified as beneficial.
If urine itself were patent-able, they would have snaffled up those patents decades ago.
Western medicine has no tradition of working with nature’s ‘energy’ systems.
Eastern traditions fortunately do. The sooner serious scientific study is focused on the Eastern traditions and their relevance to Western Medicine, the sooner we will all benefit, because not only is all matter composed of energy waves, life is even more obviously a matter of energy patterns.
Urine therapy appears not to be related to mineral deficiencies etcetera. Rather, it appears to be more associated with the body’s energy flows and energy balances. As with homeopathy, very small amounts can have dramatic effects. But please don’t ask me how or why. Nobody has yet cracked such secrets of nature. How does Reiki mange to work? How does dowsing work? So far, we have no satisfactory scientific explanations – but that does not stop them from working!!!
As you point out, Western pharmaceutical companies are good at the empirical chemistry involved with our physical bodies, but we are a lot more complex than a bag full of chemicals.
Unfortunately, many of the Ayurvedic treatments have already been patented by Big Pharma. The Indian academic world has been racing against time to make sure that all their traditional knowledge is directly place in the public domain, in order to preclude any patent being applied to lock away from even their own people, the wisdom of their own ancestors.
All the best Simon.
Simon says
Why would you assume I’d comment without being knowledgeable on the subject?
The only studies that show these ‘therapies’ work are done by true believers.
The sort of people who say stuff without any evidence to back it up.
Drinking too much of your own urine prevents your body from excreting sodium, are you going to put your hand up and take the blame if someone harms themselves with your stupid advice, or should we just add them to the list of darwin awards?
When you say something stupid like;
‘Big Pharma has spent millions, possibly billions on related research.
Can you imagine that the money hungry multinational pharmaceutical companies would still be spending that sort of money on researching urine therapy, if it was a matter of a “placebo” effect? I think “definitely not!!!”‘
You can add a link to a Big Pharma’s budget report where they say how much they are spending on researching fantasies.
Invest some of the time you are planning to spend saying nothing, into finding a grain of truth to say instead.
Tom says
Hi Simon,
Sorry for the delay, I’ve been away.
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
Preaching to the converted is not my preferred position.
Helping people who have been hoodwinked by the big multinationals who control their sickness industry is far more rewarding.
My recent two yearly visit to the GP for a checkup was an eye-opener into the public mentality. He admitted that urine therapy has many benefits, but advised that I don’t advertise my involvement, for fear of being ridiculed by ignorant people (who have never bothered to inform themselves.)
My advice to anybody who is genuinely concerned about their health and well-being is to be open minded and get a second opinion whenever something new pops up.
In our post-industrial revolution culture, we have equated urine and faeces, because they both usually end up in the toilet. However, shortly before excretion, your urine was circulating through your blood system. Unlike the faeces, it is sterile.
If you have closed your mind, before attempting to find out the real facts for yourself, I wish you good luck. You’re going to need it!
Simon says
You want me to stop protesting that things need to be true for me to believe in them?
I have several Doctor friends, I think your doctor was trying to be polite to get you out of his office, Doctors know that we have kidneys to regulate our water and electrolyte levels, They have to pass exams before they can become doctors. They can’t condone such unscientific practises. There’s a possibility of harm from hypernatremia, and no possible benefits from slightly altering your electrolyte levels in an adverse way.
Can I ask you a question? why is this particular fetish so important to you? you could be promoting the healing powers of turmeric, which would actually benefit the people you talk to, why are you crapping on about something that has no medicinal value?
If you don’t answer the q, or provide something scientific, then I won’t be replying.
Truly Pissed! says
Simon & Tom,
I missed this one. Shame… The Urine beneath all the Glitz and Glamour.
Anyway, questions to both of you, if you’re still monitoring this thread.
Simon: how do you KNOW that Urine Ingestion has no medicinal value? Tom has a number of valid points – Big Pharma in ONLY interested in the Money. I can’t see why they would spend billions on researching urine (and I don’t have that evidence – Tom?), unless there was some realistic potential to return a profit from that research. In my view, you place far too much FAITH (I use that word purposefully) in what doctors and “scientists” say. Maybe you are one yourself. But the truth is that many are stupid and closed minded, because they BELIEVE that what they were taught in Uni or Med School is (still!) the truth, even if it never was, and even though a lot of it is simplistic garbage. We humans are only now just beginning the scratch the surface of the true, incredible, amazing complexity and sophistication of the human metabolism, but like so many things, science and medicine are often archaic creatures and very slow to change and adapt to new knowledge. It’s most amusing when “science” comes out and declares something that is patently obvious to everyone else, is, well, actually true! Tell me, Simon, what is your position on Homeopathy? How do you KNOW there are “NO POSSIBLE BENEFITS”? You know everything, then? (Can you prove a negative!?) I hope you DON’T call yourself a scientist!
Tom: yes, your urine was, like mine, circulating through our own brain cells and everywhere else that blood and plasma travel in our bodies, minutes or hours before we dispensed with it. (Yes, pun intended!) So, yes, it’s pretty clean, even if it’s no longer wanted by our bodies. But I can see Simon’s (and many others’) points, that if the kidneys have filtered it out for disposal, what real value is it to our bodies any longer? Can you offer any links to any published information in support of your views? Of course, even if Simon can’t, I can see very well why there might not be any. Where’s the money in that? How can you make money out of something that is free, even if it’s perfect for each individual’s own consumption?
Simon says
I’m too busy to play, you didn’t read my posts carefully, or you’d know that drinking your own urine can dangerously raise sodium levels in your blood, hypernatremia,
The true harm of placebo medicine, is that there may be an actual cure that you could take just as easily.
Some things don’t get studied, because there’s no point, like rhino horns for erections, rhino horns are just keratin, like finger nails, chewing your nails doesn’t raise levels of nitric oxide in your blood, plenty of things do, like viagra, why on earth would you take rhino horn for erections when there are well studied things that have a definite effect, don’t tell me the answer, just group yourself with the whackos or the scientific minds,
Homeopathy says that the more you dilute something, the stronger it gets,
so if you dilute Nat Mur (common table salt) until there probably no molecules of the original Nat Mur that you started with, but other molecule of common salt that’s present in most water, why would it have any medicinal value, unless you were dehydrated,
why would the ‘energy’ of your Nat Mur be concentrated in the water, when that water has had an interesting life, including being pissed out many times, evaporated from dead animals many times,
don’t tell me your answer, swap notes with Tom,
Truly Pissed! says
Haha! Very funny. I did read them, carefully. I note “can”. Of course. How much piss you gonna drink? Why not drink sea water then? Tastes better! At least you answered one question.
The fallacy of your thinking lies in the following rhetorical question, repeated three times: “why … would…” (Without a question mark, to boot.)
Your entire thinking is based on what you *think* you already know. Since you don’t understand why ‘X” might have an effect, you assume that it wouldn’t. That is not at all scientific, not even good observation.
I know you’re not interested in Homeopathy, but can you tell me this: How does the human (or any living) immune system detect, identify, arm and destroy previously unknown bacteria and viruses long before they have a chance to replicate, multiply and invade their intended host? Come to that, how does a dog’s nose work?
To point to the first answer: By having extremely sensitive, extremely sophisticated detection systems… (which Homeopathy happens to activate). The second, apparently, relates not to chemical reactions in the olfactory bulb, but (you probably won’t believe) to the detection of atomic resonances. Unbelievable, isn’t it? A wet, slobbery dog’s nose. Atomic Physics. Absolutely Incredible. And I strongly suspect these two systems are very closely related…
May I suggest a poem? Written about 200 years ago.
Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake (1757–1827)
To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.…
Simon says
Half of science plus half a brain doesn’t lead to any useful conclusions,
Immune systems don’t destroy unknown pathogens before they infect their hosts, they have barriers and stalling strategies like lactoferrin, until they can develop a response.
A dogs olfactories might well work on atomic resonances, but that is a precise process, where specific receptors receive specific information,
There’s a pathway, which is what science looks for when there’s no concrete repeatable evidence, when one ‘scientist gets a result, and others don’t.
*Quantum physics might explain dogs noses, but you haven’t explained why you would think that water would ‘remember’ one molecule from your magic salt, and not remember the other googol of experiences that it’s been thru.*
I asked the other dickhed why he didn’t promote things that actually had a medical benefit, like turmeric, but he was more interested in his fetish,
please discuss your hocus pocus with him, it’s embarrassing engaging in this.
Or, if you can come up with some logic or science to explain the paragraph with an asterisk either side of it, them please share.
Truly Pissed! says
“Half of science plus half a brain doesn’t lead to any useful conclusions,”
Absolutely, possibly true! But, methinks you might have to prove another negative, which, if you’re a scientist, you’ll know is “quite difficult.”
You’re still doing it… Richard.
Asking “why” before you even know “what”? Find out what, before you attempt to figure out why. Of course, it’s simply an attempt to derail the debate.
Yes, it is embarrassing. You like holes in your feet?
“Immune systems don’t destroy unknown pathogens before they infect their
hosts, they have barriers and stalling strategies like lactoferrin,
until they can develop a response.”
So, they get infected, despite the barriers and stalling strategies? That act like Petri dishes, prior to full-blown infection? Methinks you contradict yourself.
Anyway, I don’t need to answer why. It would be pointless, and I’m not saying I know the exact scientific answer anyway. But I do know what, and that is what matters.
[Sorry, I just deleted the next two paragraphs. You don’t want to know.]
Let’s just say, Good Luck! I’m too busy to “play”….
Simon says
Yes, humans actually get the flu every time it mutates, despite the barriers and stalling strategies,
Voodoo Vic says
Oh, yeah! Just what I wanted to hear!!!
Absolute Proof that there is no point getting a flu jab. As I thought.
Does this law apply to every virus out there? AIDS, Ebola, for examples. I read that some people are immune to these viruses – apparently because they develop immunity before the virus “gets them”.
By “get the flu” did you mean “don’t get the flu”?
Andrew says
Just a query Tom… If you have been following this ideal for 25 years, how come you managed to get toothache twice?
Tom says
Hi Andrew,
Sorry for the delay, I’ve been away.
Ancient teeth, grown before Iodine was provided in salt and toothpaste, tend to decay more readily. Also, thyroid problems, largely caused by Iodine deficiency, were commonplace before WW2.
With the first toothache, I initially started alternating between Paracetamol & Ibuprofen (?correct spelling?) but next morning, I noticed that the pain abated after ingesting my customary early morning dose. This prompted me to try taking about a teaspoonful of midstream urine under the tongue, each time I relieved myself. One uses a mid-stream sample, after the plumbing has been flushed. This low-volume system is mentioned in many of the more recent texts, but I had not previously tried it.
With the regular topping up, no more pain killers were required.
I hope you are able to do your own research and overcome unfounded prejudice. In our modern culture, where sanitation is almost universally provided, We tend to equate the two forms of body waste, because they both normally end up in the same waste system. In healthy indtill sterile when released. Only when exposed to bacteria in the air does the urea get broken down, releasing ammonia, which gives stale urine its objectionable smell.
Nature, over the millions of years of mammal development, instilled in all warm-blooded creatures the aversion to the smell of ammonia; possibly those without the aversion to ammonia did not survive to pass on the genes which failed to alert them to the danger of stale urine.
You will find that many animals lick the private parts of their neighbours, after they pee, possibly instinctively practicing urine therapy. Who knows? They instinctively know which plants they should eat. Our cows on magnificent “improved pasture” of Rye Grass and Clover used to run when the gate was opened onto the road, where they headed straight to the ‘rubbish’ growing on the roadside. We kids had trouble getting them to move on to the milking shed.
Before cane harvesters were invented, the sugar cane was burned then cut by hand. Many returned servicemen used to cut cane, and then come to Tassie for the apple harvest. I remember one of them telling me that the cane juice was terrible on their hands. To keep them fit for work, they would put a pair of footy socks on their forearms before going to bed, and piss into the socks. External urine therapy, probably relying principally on the urea content.
We all spent our earliest days swimming in and drinking our own urine. For the last few months as a fetus, that was our natural condition.
All the best in your search for a fulfilled life.
Simon says
Cows rumens can convert urea into protein, that’s why it’s added to feed, but they don’t add piss to feed, because that would cause electrolyte imbalances.
Andrew says
Yeah, righto Tom…. and how do you feel about real estate investing. Which this blog seems to deal with more-so than drinking one’s urine?
ron says
thank you paul..’ocelot’ :”an american wild cat with spotted coat”..i dunno about a maserati..it would need a driverless car i reckon..despite what jonno says.