Post by sherlew99 on Dec 17, 2013 12:23:01 GMT -6
What Your Urine Says About Your Health
By The Editors of Prevention | Healthy Living – Mon, Dec 16, 2013 10:46 AM EST
By Cindy Kuzma, Prevention
Consider this the next time you're about to flush--you may be sending important health information down the toilet. We're not advising a return to the old summer camp rule or anything (if it's yellow…), but we do humbly suggest you give your urine a little more respect.
Why? Because we're approaching a golden age of urine testing, thanks in part to a project called the Human Urine Metabolome, a recently completed analysis of more than 3,000 chemicals and compounds in liquid waste (a veritable encyclopedia of urine). "Instead of looking at urine through a keyhole, we're now looking through a picture window," says David Wishart, PhD, the University of Alberta scientist leading the project. In the next decade or so, Dr. Wishart predicts we may all have home testing kits that read our bodily fluids to foretell the risk of diseases such as cancer and diabetes.
By The Editors of Prevention | Healthy Living – Mon, Dec 16, 2013 10:46 AM EST
By Cindy Kuzma, Prevention
Consider this the next time you're about to flush--you may be sending important health information down the toilet. We're not advising a return to the old summer camp rule or anything (if it's yellow…), but we do humbly suggest you give your urine a little more respect.
Why? Because we're approaching a golden age of urine testing, thanks in part to a project called the Human Urine Metabolome, a recently completed analysis of more than 3,000 chemicals and compounds in liquid waste (a veritable encyclopedia of urine). "Instead of looking at urine through a keyhole, we're now looking through a picture window," says David Wishart, PhD, the University of Alberta scientist leading the project. In the next decade or so, Dr. Wishart predicts we may all have home testing kits that read our bodily fluids to foretell the risk of diseases such as cancer and diabetes.
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I especially like the fact that this test could be used to pre-screen people for colon cancer. Once the test is available, only those who'll really need a colonoscopy will have to sign up for one. Lot's of people over 50 are skipping it and they really shouldn't. Urine tests also cost a lot less and don't carry the risk that many procedures do.
