Welcome back to Get Fit Guy. I'm Kevin Don. And this week I'm going to have a rant about

holistic fitness. So I've been a coach for a long time now, over two decades, in fact,

and in that time, I've been able to see many trends come and go. I've also been able to see

many coaches rotating through the various go. I've also been able to see many rocoaches rotating through the various

trends. I guess that's what brought this to my attention this week. I watched a video on Instagram,

which was totally out there about urine therapy. As you can probably tell, this is going to get

a bit gross. In the video, she drank her own urine, used her own urine in a netty pot to wash her sinuses out,

sprayed her face with her own urine as a skin hydrator, used her own urine as a mouthwash,

added her own urine to soups, washed her hair with her own urine, and finally

used her pee as sunscreen. The most alarming thing to me about the account was it was being followed

by and interacted with by no less than 15 coaches I know, some of whom are already making

posts about this kind of ancestral living stuff.

So where do these ideas come from?

And in the interest of me being impartial, are there any benefits?

Should I be swapping out my morning lemon water for a glass of the golden stuff?

Let's take a look.

So throughout history, humans have been using natural substances for various roles in daily life.

And one of those does happen to be urine.

It's been used to dye clothes as a cleaning agent, to whiten teeth.

And due to its high ammonia content and nitrogen content, it's really valued as a fertilizer.

In fact, the Romans even planned to tax it.

Such were the varied uses and importance in daily Roman culture. However, the health claims that I've

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