Episode Details

Recently, a mother and daughter in China got trapped in the elevator for 4 days. To survive, they ended up resorting to drinking each other’s urine. While this is an extreme situation, is drinking your own pee ever a good idea? How do people survive without food or water? How did people like Aron Ralston, Mahatma Ghandi, and David Blaine do it? Why does Bear Grylls drink his own pee? Why is drinking your pee similar to drinking salt water? Let’s get into it.

Sources:

[127 Hours — Aron Ralston]
https://www.searchlightpictures.com/127hours/

[The 2 Women Who Got Stuck in the Elevator]
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12175258/grandma-and-daughter-trapped-drink-urine/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8541393/Mother-82-daughter-64-survive-trapped-lift-drinking-urine.html
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mum-82-daughter-64-drink-22383472
https://newsbeyonddetroit.net/2020/07/23/a-mother-and-daughter-trapped-in-an-elevator-for-days-had-to-do-something-nasty-to-survive/

[Surviving Without Food or Water]
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-days-can-you-survive-without-water-2014-5

[David Blaine]
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/david-blaine-london-glass-box-stunt-reaction-starvation-above-below-a8523606.html
https://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/20/britain.blaine/index.html

[Rishi Khanal]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/nepal-earthquake-man-rubble-urine-rishi-khanal
https://www.indiatoday.in/nepal-earthquake-2015/story/nepal-quake-survivor-rishi-khanal-drank-urine-while-trapped-for-82-hours-250682-2015-04-29
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/nepal/11570304/Survivor-pulled-out-of-rubble-after-82-hours-trapped-and-forced-to-drink-his-own-urine.html

[Bear Grylls]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U_xmfSwYSw
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-08-14/bear-grylls-wildest-things-done/

[Urine History]
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/from-gunpowder-to-teeth-whitener-the-science-behind-historic-uses-of-urine-442390/
http://www.yogamag.net/archives/1981/ajan81/amar.shtml
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-03/fyi-it-ever-ok-dr