# Drinking your urine in an emergency situation

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-your-urine-in-an-emergency-situation/987481
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 24, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-your-urine-in-an-emergency-situation/987481 "2023-07-24T17:38:57Z")
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### Author: ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-your-urine-in-an-emergency-situation/987481/5 "2023-07-24T17:51:32Z")

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> [@Sigene](#):
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> We all ‘know’ not to do this.

I ‘know’ the opposite. It isn’t a perpetual cycle, but I was very much under the impression that drinking your urine could keep you going for a short while longer.

I mean, isn’t that what Bear Grylls always taught us?

> **[Bear Grylls / Better Drink My Own Piss](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bear-grylls-better-drink-my-own-piss)**
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> "Better Drink My Own Piss" is an image macro series featuring a photo of Edward "Bear" Grylls, the host of UK’s wildlife survival series Born Survivor, also known as Man vs. Wild in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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