
True, it does have the waste products of metabolism in it, which your body definitely needs to get rid of.Īnd that’s where some of the problems begin. I’m not advocating doing anything crazy with it (except maybe writing your name in the snow), but it’s not the heinous grody stuff that many third graders make it out to be. And pee is (usually) sterile – unless you have a urinary tract infection (UTI) pee is pure enough that you could clean your windows with it. Ditto with lots of other substances, like water, that need to be regulated. Just ate a super-sized order of fries with an ocean’s worth of sodium in it? Here come the kidneys to say ‘hold the salt’ and dump the unwanted excess into the urine. Your body, and more specifically, your kidneys, sense and adjust the composition of your bodily fluids and dump the excess into the urine. Stuff you can’t live without in many cases – things like potassium and sodium and water. It actually has lots of good stuff in it. So when something happens to stem the flow of pee, trouble ensues - and fast.

Eating, you can hold off for a few days, pooping is optional (for a while anyway), but peeing is right up there with breathing on the list of things you just gotta do each and every day.

It's a natural fact that every mammal has to pee.
