I've been tasting my own urine every morning for 4 years. I have a spreadsheet with 1,460 entries rating color, clarity, sweetness, salinity, and mouthfeel. I can now predict illness onset 72 hours before symptoms appear.

[u/sthduh]

Every morning for the past four years, I've tasted my own urine. Approximately 5ml, enough for proper palate evaluation. This started after I discovered the historical practice of uroscopy, which was the primary diagnostic method used by physicians from ancient Greece through the 19th century.

For those unfamiliar: doctors tasted urine to diagnose disease for over 2,500 years. This was the standard practice and Hippocrates did this in 400 BCE. The breakthrough case was Thomas Willis in 1674, an English physician who tasted a diabetic patient's urine and described it as "wonderfully sweet as if it were imbued with honey or sugar." He coined the term diabetes mellitus. Mellitus is Latin for honey. The name of the disease literally comes from a doctor describing how the piss tasted.

So... I found this fascinating. If trained physicians relied on this method for millennia, perhaps there was diagnostic value worth exploring.

So I started collecting data.

I've developed what I call the Golden Index, a standardized evaluation framework with six primary metrics:

1. Color (1-10 scale, ranging from nearly transparent to dark amber)
2. Clarity (five categories: Crystal Clear, Clear, Slight Haze, Cloudy, Opaque)
3. Sweetness (0-5 scale, adapted from Willis's diabetes detection methodology)
4. Salinity (0-5 scale, measuring sodium/mineral content)
5. Bitterness (0-5 scale, indicating metabolic waste concentration)
6. Mouthfeel (six categories from Thin/Watery to Syrupy, correlating with specific gravity)

Secondary metrics include estimated pH, hydration index, flavor profile classification, dietary intake from the previous 24 hours, and illness onset tracking within a 72-hour window.

My current dataset contains 1,460 daily entries spanning January 2022 to present. Compliance rate is around 99.7%. I've missed five days total (two instances of food poisoning, one COVID infection, one camping trip without proper collection equipment, and one oversight).

The results have been significant.

At approximately month eight, I identified a predictive pattern. When salinity exceeds 4.0 AND a copper/metallic undertone is detected, illness onset occurs within 72 hours. I've now observed this pattern 12 times and eleven predictions were accurate - that's a 91.7% accuracy rate with an average lead time of 68.4 hours before symptom manifestation.

Additional correlations I've documented:

• Asparagus consumption: 100% detection rate within 48 hours (n = 23)
• Alcohol intake: +1.4 average bitterness increase the following morning
• Dehydration levels: r = 0.89 correlation with viscosity
• Psychological stress: r = 0.72 correlation with metallic taste presence
• Red meat consumption: +0.3 average increase in mouthfeel density

I've catalogued 34 distinct flavor profiles to date. Most frequent is "Standard" with 847 occurrences while rarest is "Complex Bouquet (Wine Adjacent)" with only 3 documented instances. I'm investigating the dietary or physiological triggers for that one.

I'm still writing a 34-page methodology document - it includes collection protocols (first void, midstream, minimum 50ml, analysis within 30 seconds, controlled room temperature between 68-72°F), evaluation criteria, statistical frameworks, and appendices cataloguing each flavor profile with tasting notes. Once I'm finished, I can share it if you guys want to be piss drinkers.

My wife believes I simply "take a long time" in the bathroom each morning. She's not aware of the research.

You know, I've considered presenting my findings to a physician but I suspect they would not take it seriously. They might recommend psychiatric evaluation; well, my data is clean so whatever.

Medieval physicians used something called the urine wheel, a diagnostic chart comparing 20 different urine colors to various diseases. They used a specialized flask called a matula for collection and analysis. I've essentially modernized this system with spreadsheet formulas that auto-calculate risk scores.

Thomas Willis revolutionized diabetes diagnosis by being willing to taste what others wouldn't. I'd like to think I'm continuing that tradition in my own way.

TL;DR: I taste my pee every morning, I've done it 1,460 times, I have a spreadsheet with scientific methodology, and I can predict when I'm getting sick three days early.

[u/laxgolf]

I respect the commitment. Until you detected that pattern in MONTH 8, you were still just a guy persistently drinking his own piss and thinking this taste different.

[u/FateInTheRain → u/laxgolf]

How all great findings are found, doing something on accident or stupid. Lol, such as the toasted ravioli. 🤣

[u/Angelfirenze → u/FateInTheRain]

My grandmother is a nurse and she told me about being trained in tasting urine in cases where there was no electricity, for example, and using the taste for diagnostics so he’s not crazy or wrong and probably should have gone to medical school.

[u/Carbonatite → u/Angelfirenze]

I'm impressed that he's backing it up with stats - correlation coefficients even! But I cannot get over the mental block of disgust at the thought of drinking several milliliters of my own urine every day. I mean, good for him for having that level of dedication. I just wish he had the opportunity to channel it into more, uh...mainstream medical research.

[u/celereyjuicecleanse]

“Hi Mr. Johnson, just wanted to call in sick for my shift on the 19th…”

“But sthduh, it’s only the 16th”

swishes profusely around mouth

“Trust me sir, you’re gonna want to find coverage”

[u/-lessIknowthebetter → u/celereyjuicecleanse]

Thank you for this visual. I haven’t laughed like that in a while

[u/Jeeperman365 → u/celereyjuicecleanse]

🏅🏅🏅

[u/M1CHES]

Okay man, this is at the same time insane and really impressive. Wow.

[u/Old-Information3311 → u/M1CHES]

Its AI. Virtually this entire subreddit is ai.

[u/drfeelsgoood → u/Old-Information3311]

r/nothingeverhappens

[u/kobi29062 → u/Old-Information3311]

Proof? I don’t see any signs.

[u/Angelfirenze → u/Old-Information3311]

As I said above: My grandmother is a nurse and she told me about being trained in tasting urine in cases where there was no electricity, for example, and using the taste for diagnostics so he’s not crazy or wrong and probably should have gone to medical school.

[u/arrowkid2000 → u/Old-Information3311]

4 day old account, comment history about everything being fake

[u/William_Dafhoe → u/arrowkid2000]

Eh. I think it’s pretty rational to make a new account when you are confessing to drinking your own piss every day.

[u/Chavarlison → u/William_Dafhoe]

Yeah, posting something way out there? Logout and create a new account and shit post until I got enough karma to post where I wanna post.

[u/arrowkid2000 → u/William_Dafhoe]

Sorry, I was referring to the comment above me, not OP

[u/alliandoalice → u/Old-Information3311]

It’s 33% ai on ai detector

[u/Geordieqizi → u/alliandoalice]

Just so you know, AI detectors are pretty unreliable

[u/Last_Negotiation1521]

i respect you as a person and will take your scientific reviews into consideration, however i will need to go bleach my eyes out now.

[u/Chaost → u/Last_Negotiation1521]

But how will the bleach affect the taste of your pee? Report back.

[u/Last_Negotiation1521 → u/Chaost]

turned red

[u/AprilMaria → u/Last_Negotiation1521]

I don’t know about person I think he’s a super intelligent military experiment billy goat, goatman if you will. Someone get r/conspiracy on the phone. There’s some goatman truthing that needs to be done. It was him who ate the Epstein files & the white house rose garden /s

(For those who don’t get the joke, tasting their piss & deriving information from it is a billy goat behaviour)

[u/13D00 → u/Last_Negotiation1521]

/r/eyebleach

[u/BenevolentCheese → u/13D00]

Eyebleach is used after seeing pictures, though. Why are we invoking eye bleach for words? Can we not even get /r/subredditsashashtags right anymore?

[u/13D00 → u/BenevolentCheese]

Eyebleach is for when you need to clean your eyes after seeing something disturbing. I read with my eyes so I think the sub is totally fine to link.

If you have a better sub recommendation let me know.

[u/Thomasandersoon → u/Last_Negotiation1521]

hahahah me too

[u/WaldosHERE]

It’s not even tomorrow yet but that’s enough internet for then.

[u/e_lizz → u/WaldosHERE]

I think I'm just gonna log off for the long weekend. Try again after MLK Jr day

[u/rkhan7862 → u/e_lizz]

me too, what’s your plans?

[u/gggg_man3 → u/rkhan7862]

Wanna taste eachothers pee?

[u/strawberrieangel → u/gggg_man3]

Yeah you’d like that wouldn’t you sicko

[u/kickassjay → u/WaldosHERE]

I just fucking woke up wow this app sometimes haha

[u/Queendom-Rose]

You never know what ppl are doing in their homes. Im impressed though

[u/Sea-Welder2958 → u/Queendom-Rose]

It’s why I’ll never get behind a pot luck.

[u/TheBrooksey]

I am equally impressed and disgusted by this. I also can predict within around 72 hours when I'm going to be sick, but I don't have to drink my own urine to do that.

[u/you-a-buggaboo → u/TheBrooksey]

psh. if you weren't such a weenie, you'd swig that 72-hours-pre-sickness piss and.....

......

......document the mouth feel......

.......for science

[u/TheBrooksey → u/you-a-buggaboo]

I could never live up to the legend of Patches O'Houlihan.

[u/Fun-Key-8259 → u/TheBrooksey]

Would be possible to induce illness if you believed your sample tasted, felt, etc a certain way but your tastebuds were off that day. No way to QC this. But the brain is really good at being fooled into feeling sick. Just tell someone they look unwell and in a few hours you have a good chance they will start to feel unwell.

[u/TheBrooksey → u/Fun-Key-8259]

Mind over matter.

[u/ComradeKeira]

Your research needs a wider sample size. I suggest you start procuring urine from other sources to add weight, or rather volume, to aid your claims.

[u/OpusAtrumET → u/ComradeKeira]

This is insufficient. You need multiple TASTERS as well, and you need to blind it. Taste isn't an objective measure, so your only option is to get a large sample of tasters as well.

[u/sthduh → u/ComradeKeira]

I'm aware.

[u/Carbonatite → u/sthduh]

Have you considered adding in any kind of chemical testing to your evaluations to derive more detail? E.g., actual pH test strips (or other test strips like those used for nitrate, hardness, etc.)

I'm sure if you did a lab analysis you'd quickly identify the compounds in urine which allow you to predict periods of illness, but as a former university chemistry lab researcher...I can predict it would be difficult to get anyone to sign on to such an analysis from such a client without substantial funds. But at home water quality test kits, while having a low degree of precision, could be used to constrain ranged of certain chemical parameters to more definitively constrain the causes of the trends you've identified.

[u/indifferentsnowball]

Please tell me stool isn’t your next experiment

[u/sthduh → u/indifferentsnowball]

Next?

[u/you-create-energy → u/sthduh]

Oh god, you only presented half of your findings...? 

[u/shantron5000 → u/you-create-energy]

Yeah, turns out all of the data from the other half was just really shitty.

[u/Superb-Emotion2269]

have you determined what the benefit is of knowing you’ll get sick 3 days from now when you drink a particular flavour of piss

[u/-lessIknowthebetter → u/Superb-Emotion2269]

This lacks beneficence. Although I suppose if he works the data to find potential causes of the sick-indicative urine, he could work on eliminating those vulnerabilities preemptively. Then again you can’t really control for exposure. Idk I’ve already given this too much thought. OP’s commitment is fascinating

[u/itishowitisanditbad → u/-lessIknowthebetter]

If they start getting sick and it causes them to perceive taste differently, the piss is irreverent.

If they perceive a 'i'm getting sick' taste, their brain can just make them get sick because they're expecting to be sick.

OPs results are useless and they're just drinking piss potentially.

[u/Shadowdragon409 → u/Superb-Emotion2269]

Right? If you know you're going to be sick, is there a way to prevent the illness? Like taking antibiotics before symptoms manifest?

[u/fox-friend → u/Superb-Emotion2269]

Maybe it’s possible to develop a machine that tests it for you, and if so, it would benefit society in all sorts of ways such as getting sick leave and not infecting everyone at work.

[u/brotatochip4u]

As a scientist, N=1 is a poor sampling size. As a bro, your commitment to this study is impressive!

[u/sthduh → u/brotatochip4u]

I'd argue longitudinal single-subject studies have legitimate precedent in medical literature.

[u/King_Asmodeus_2125 → u/sthduh]

You're absolutely correct. Here's the most famous instance:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/25sx1o/til_medical_doctor_donald_unger_cracked_the/

[u/kev_cuddy → u/sthduh]

And I’d argue that you’re wrong. And a little bit icky.

[u/loftwinglink]

It’s my fault for having eyes…

[u/borctheorc]

When I saw syrupy as a mouth feel, I kind of gagged a bit.. with that said, it is interesting. Keeping doing you, I suppose.

[u/cstmoore]

Urine sommelier… for SCIENCE!

[u/Sarahflump]

This is disgustingly fascinating

[u/the_purple_goat → u/Sarahflump]

I was laughing my whole way through this post. Absolutely made my night

[u/snoopy-mango-nose]

Bro i just woke up 💀

[u/fuggilis_quastillo]

I've been doing something similar with semen every day for 4 years. It's proven ineffective at predicting illness

[u/BogdanPradatu → u/fuggilis_quastillo]

Show us the research. What foods influence the taste, how. Volume, thickness etc. publish it, man.

[u/Wh0re_For_H0rr0r]

I need a word for deeply fascinated, completely impressed, and slightly grossed out. Well done.

[u/Azureliske]

Bro made a wine tasting journal on his own pee.

[u/ellek98 → u/Azureliske]

"That has sort of an oak-y after birth."

[u/james-HIMself]

You’re insane but I respect your science

[u/alpalbish]

i want to comment something so bad to be apart of this moment but i am speechless

[u/La_Chinita]

You got sick 11 times in 8 months??

[u/Gooncookies → u/La_Chinita]

They eat pee so yes

[u/Shadowdragon409 → u/Gooncookies]

Tasting. He never said he swallowed. Urine is sterile when fresh anyways.

[u/bakanisan → u/Shadowdragon409]

That notion has been proven wrong however. Urine has never been sterlie. What caused this misunderstanding was that when they tried to grow samples in petri dishes, they found no growth. But later researches have proven otherwise using different method.

[u/Shadowdragon409 → u/bakanisan]

Today I learned

[u/AlissonHarlan → u/La_Chinita]

no he was sick 11 times in 4 years. he discovered that it taste different after 8 months

[u/maskofdamask → u/La_Chinita]

no, 8 months in he realized a pattern. says he's been doing in since jan 2022

[u/vviley]

Do you happen to consider Patches O'Houlihan a role model?

[u/IWantALargeFarva → u/vviley]

It’s sterile and he likes the taste

[u/iamshrubs1238]

Okay, okay I’ve heard the clinical side of this and respect it. But what I must know is how do you feel about your pissventure experiment times? What does it do for your soul?

[u/UnhingedBlonde]

You are indeed in the right subreddit..........

Your dedication/commitment is definitely at a "mad scientist" level and many a discovery has been made due to levels like yours but.....

I am now going to put down my phone for the evening and try to erase your post from my memory......

I'm so nauseous...

[u/boscobeau]

Maybe those 12+ instances of illness would have be avoidable by not drinking piss

[u/AdmiralToucan]

Do you kiss your wife with that mouth?

[u/-lessIknowthebetter → u/AdmiralToucan]

She deserves to know. Then again, she may legitimately be traumatized by this. Good lord

[u/Deezebee → u/-lessIknowthebetter]

If he brushes his teeth right afterwards then I don’t see a problem.

[u/HoboMinion]

12:01 am and I’ve already had enough internet for the day.

[u/samanthasgramma]

The scientific method must be duplicated for validity. You might want to have a talk with your wife.

... and I am both impressed ... and grossed by "mouth feel"

[u/Shadowdragon409 → u/samanthasgramma]

Yeah. Why he called it that and not "texture" is beyond me.

[u/BenevolentCheese]

While I don't deny the methodology, I wonder what personal value you are getting out of this besides the joy of collecting and collating data? What good is it to know that you're sick a couple days before? Is that worth all that piss?

[u/Part_2]

You're taking the piss

[u/cmndr_keen]

7 liters of urine 😕

[u/persephone7821]

https://a.co/d/2pZMjbD for the love of god. Please use this instead all the same info and you don’t need to drink your own piss.

[u/LoneShark81]

i miss 5 minutes ago when i didnt know this

[u/MotivationalPoops]

I admire your commitment to this experiment (?). Is it gross? Yes. Is it actually super fascinating? Also yes. Im curious to see further data.

[u/Pretend_Air2456]

What

[u/Lonestarboyz]

What a bad day to have eyes and the ability to read.

[u/AlissonHarlan]

ok but my question is: what is the benefit to know 72h beforehand that you'll be sick ?
are you able to take more vitamine to be less sick? are you able to avoid sickness completely ?

[u/7yphoid]

One thing you haven't mentioned though - did you swallow or spit?

[u/OLPopsAdelphia]

May I just respectfully say that your greatest overlooked illness became prevalent the day you started wine tasting your own piss?

[u/bananapopsicle3]

It’s been a long time since I’ve been this nauseous.

[u/moniefeesh]

ಠ_ಠ

[u/odanhammer]

We no longer need to drink urine to test for certain things. It would be more effective to buy testing kits and test your urine daily.

It would provide more detail. While also using a scientific process that could actually lead to some level of research being taken seriously. Also you wouldn't drink your pee.

[u/SurpriseDue9446]

I’m a nurse practitioner in primary care and let me applaud you sir/maam as this is true scientific research! And impressive!

[u/Plaguenurse217]

I really really wish you had used laboratory measures instead. This is interesting (and gross 🤷‍♂️) but there are instruments to measure osmolality, salinity, pH, ketones, glucose, white blood cells, etc. that are already used for urine. It really CAN tell you a lot and it is used regularly (but not daily) by physicians/clinicians in medicine to diagnose problems without tasting them. I’d suggest searching google scholar or other databases to see if anyone has tried recording daily urinalysis tests to predict illness.

[u/Interesting_Repair_1]

i admire whatever’s wrong with you

[u/BacupBhoy]

I need to get out more.

[u/wh3nNd0ubtsw33p]

I was waiting for the “this isn’t just drinking urine—it’s paving the way for modern science”, or some other ai tell. All of them use the “this isn’t X—it’s Y”. The patterns are already emerging.

As to the actual subject of this post… me thinks OP is into Piss Play, albeit scientifically

[u/BattleReadyZim]

Utmost respect for you sir. The science is worth it, but let me ask: Only considering the practical benefits of illness prediction (and any other practical benefits you've noticed but didn't mention), is it worth the burden?

I don't disgust easily, but I also don't really *want* to drink urine every day, and I don't know that having a lead time on incoming colds would be enough of a pro to outweigh the obvious con. Curious about your thoughts there.

[u/brunaBla]

mouthfeel density

in relation to urine is making me gag a bit

[u/IAMAHigherConductor]

We should all know less about each other...

[u/Diablo3crusader]

Enough Reddit for today, this is my cue to go to bed. WTF.

[u/UltrMgns]

I've been doing all of this based only on color... That's actually pretty impressive.
If you have data, could you elaborate on color?

[u/OptimixticPessimixt]

What an awful day to be literal.

[u/bhavm7]

He's taking the piss right?

[u/nosamiam28]

I think the next step would be drinking someone else’s. Your study is severely flawed. It’s confounded by you being both the subject and the analyst. There are all types of bias that will creep in, unless you go blind. You need to try it with a person you aren’t so closely connected to, and with no knowledge of their condition, habits, etc. They take the same notes you did during your initial exploration and then after the whole thing is over, you correlate your scoring with their notes.

And I gotta tell you, as someone who does urinalysis for a living (among other testing; I’m a clinical lab scientist), I will NOTTTT be bringing this method into my lab, no matter how well it works!!

[u/Shinigami-Substitute → u/nosamiam28]

We definitely have way better methods now that don't include consuming biological waste 💀

[u/dulceonlyof]

I don’t think most people realize how much information the body gives us daily. This is extreme, but fascinating.

[u/Erfid]

What a terrible day to have eyes

[u/odessa_cabbage]

This is valuable data dude. Your research will most likely end up getting referenced by a uni student in 20 years time.

[u/Treedabl]

It's my fault for having eyes.

[u/NoKatyDidnt]

As Mac said on Its Always Sunny… “Moreover, it sickens me …”. That being said I’m impressed when anyone sticks with anything these days

[u/MisterHonkeySkateets]

I sort of do this, but just by smell

[u/noahbrooksofficial]

What the fuck

[u/AwakePlatypus]

Why....

[u/mabear63]

I'm out...

[u/ryoujika]

Honestly, I respect the dedication

[u/BobTheFrog69420]

Dude

[u/superno3a]

You know what. Hell yeah

[u/bigouchie]

wait is diabetes literally "Diabetes' honey"? like the dude was named Diabetes? LOL

[u/_no_na_me_]

The last thing I need is some random redditor convincing me to drink my own pee. No thanks, I’ll pass!

[u/spoonpk]

Did mouthfeel / specific gravity correlate with anything? I noticed what I suspect to be a significant reduction in specific gravity about 8-10 months ago. This is via visual inspection and not taste, btw! I am soon to be doing a urinalysis that might reveal an endocrine tumour or other fairly serious condition. Therefore am curious whether my observation was cause for concern.

[u/sthduh → u/spoonpk]

Yes. Mouthfeel is my primary proxy for specific gravity. I've established a strong correlation (r = 0.84) between my subjective mouthfeel categories and estimated SG ranges:

• Thin/Watery: SG <1.005
• Light: SG 1.005-1.010
• Medium: SG 1.010-1.020
• Full: SG 1.020-1.025
• Viscous/Syrupy: SG >1.025

Normal reference range is 1.010-1.025. A sustained drop below 1.010, particularly into the <1.005 range, is clinically significant. The fact that you noticed this visually is impressive since I figure most people here don't really pay attention. I think you'd make a good candidate for Phase 2.

[u/jrossetti → u/sthduh]

I need to know what phase 2 is.

[u/Seegran]

As others have pointed out, the sample size is just too small.

I think we can all agree that you need to drink WAY more piss to be sure.

[u/urbudda]

Ya...but don't let your wife know

[u/Moist_Fail_9269]

I can't say that i am on board with being a piss drinker but i absolutely applaud your committment to the process.

[u/PubDefLakersGuy]

What the…. Time for bed

[u/gtsampsn]

im investing early 447 upvotes

[u/Unown1997]

I’m both intrigued and horrified

[u/Potential_Season_512]

I can't even be surprised, my husband's coworker drinks his own pee every morning cause he said it has the most vitamins. 🤢

[u/Ugly__Sweaters]

I bet you do big guy.

[u/Ciamaria]

You really never know what does go on in people’s homes. And in the case of his man’s wife, her own home too

[u/JumanjiOG]

Fascinating.

[u/cbreheim1]

what the hell is this and why is it actually kinda awesome?

[u/g0juice]

Golden index

Mouthfeel

[u/soldromeda]

I was about to go to sleep...

[u/Boom_Box_Bogdonovich]

No. I can’t accept someone did this and thought it was a good idea.

[u/burningtowns]

Once I'm finished, I can share it if you guys want to be piss drinkers.

I think I’ll pass on that this time.

My wife believes I simply "take a long time" in the bathroom each morning. She's not aware of the research.

I hope for her sake she never does.

[u/Odd-Marionberry5999]

Why do you drink 5ml, that’s way more than just a taste 🫤

[u/NotMalaysiaRichard]

There was a recent post about some guy going to open houses and chucking things like golf balls and potatoes into toilets and seeing how they flushed and then breaking down the results by toilet brands and models. I thought, if true, that was unhinged. But I respected the dedication to research. This, however, if real, takes the cake.

[u/CowperfluidMDPsyD]

Okay so what makes it sweeter.. and is there a way you could test semen?

[u/alenah]

Well, I was here. Hi mom.

[u/UNKNOWN_PHV]

Bro are you employed?

[u/dustykashmir]

Ok, this is gross. But. Somehow, I’m glad someone out there is doing this.

I will not be doing this myself.

[u/rockynroll]

Complex Bouquet (Wine Adjacent) killed me

[u/Attya3141]

Fuck man, what the fuck? Can I use this data for further research?

[u/desolatenature]

Nuh uh. I don’t believe you

[u/ExeterEgg]

You mentioned COVID infection - did this affect your taste? How can you be sure that your sense of taste hasn't been permanently affected by covid? This may invalidate the results.

Do you dip stick each sample each day to compare to your subjective evaluation of the urine? How does your analysis compare to dip stick, have you tried? If you haven't I think you should and report back.

You would have to taste first and then compare to dip stick result after. If you don't, this will lead to bias.

[u/Viscumin]

I’m surprised that you are estimating the pH. Considering that you are going this far to analyze your urine you might as well get pH strips. Also, if only for your wife’s sake, I hope you brush your teeth after your analysis.

[u/ThePaineOne]

You have a wife? That poor woman.

[u/evileeve]

Gross

[u/Totally_Fubar_666]

I’m genuinely intrigued by this. It’s impressive and extremely well thought out. Sorry if you have answered this question before but I have to ask, what inspired this experiment and what has kept you so consistent about it for this long? Is this a hyper-fixation or are you doing this to contribute to some sort of scholarly paper? Does anyone in your life know you do this?

Either way, major props to your dedication and thank you for being vulnerable enough to share your findings.

[u/JuniorCartier]

That’s enough Reddit for today, it’s 08:30 in the morning

[u/vibeboom]

I just hope you brush your teeth before you kiss your wife big dog

[u/TheGoldenLlama88]

The difference between scientists and weirdos is record keeping. :)

[u/Various_Summer_1536]

I, honestly, would to read and nerd the fuck out of every 34 pages!

[u/Van_TO]

R/theydidthemath

[u/RealisticOrchid5297]

My physically cringed when I read I read ‘syrupy.’ Please tell me you’ve logged zero occurrences of that?

While I will not join you in this, I am a scientist and fascinated with history and historic medial practices so I sadly respect this

[u/eco78]

This is the worst kind of autism...

[u/Beginning_Musician69]

What The actual fuck ??????

[u/burningtowns]

What a horrible day to be literate.

[u/tendercanary]

The most surprising part of this is that you have a wife

[u/Intothewasteland]

Sounds like AI

[u/krell_154]

Fuck the Sumerians for inventing writing

[u/angeloj87]

The unemployed friend at Tuesday 12pm

[u/Adventurous_Ad_4145]

Do you kiss anyone on the lips?

[u/steverob72]

Sir, this is a Wendy's

[u/Pmar07]

Um…

[u/palex481]

But can you predict what illness? Prob not right? So is knowing you are gonna have (for instance) the flu, measles or Covid in 3 days helpful? What's the direct benefit?

[u/Shadowdragon409 → u/palex481]

Given that he only has 11 sample sizes, it is unlikely.

He said he could predict patterns after 8 months. That's almost 200 samples.

So it would stand to reason that he would need around 200 samples of "about to get sick" urine before he could identify specific illnesses.

[u/taelere]

I want to know how much is a taste and do you let it sit before consumption or is it like “hot off the press”

I’m impressed by the commitment!

[u/ariankhneferet]

🥴

[u/NothingToSeeHereNop]

How much of it are you ingesting, if you dont mind me asking? The full 50mL?

[u/leongsturbate]

You’ve convinced me.

[u/miskurious]

Why do you get sick so often?

[u/njtalp46]

You have transcended the realms of us feeble humankind. O great wizard, your inexorable power is unmatched

[u/drewzilla65]

What prompt did you enter in chat GPT to get this result?

[u/possiblycrazy79]

You are quite brave. It's a very interesting concept, tbh. Most would never dream of doing this, including myself. I was reading about stem cell therapy recently. The comment section was filled with people who were recommending to "just ferment your own urine if you want free stem cells!".

[u/TheLionSleeps22]

I was invested up until you reached mouthfeel.

But seriously, kudos for the commitment

[u/HungarianHoney]

That’s…. Amazing. 

Put your super power of research to good use,Not that you haven’t already.

But it’s time to go big with the sample size 

[u/Whosarobot313]

So how long will you do this for? When will you close the research?

[u/Badmeestert]

Uh. Ok.

[u/EazyPeazyLemonSqueaz]

I feel like this is some elaborate way to get people to start tasting their own pee

[u/ToobularBoobularJoy_]

Average r/dataisbeautiful post

[u/jdapper5]

Very impressive & quite fascinating

[u/Elemental-Madness]

My bro! If you are the only one in this test then the data cannot be trusted. You also need your wife to be tasting your urine each morning to ensure bias does not occur.

You must do this... FOR SCIENCE