Tea and dehydration

[Salsero]

Convert your tea to pee

That sounds like a recycling slogan ... I like it!

I think recycling would require reversing the cited procedure.

[soapy]

Convert your tea to pee

what are you selling????????

tea or pee.....

[geeber1]

Although I'd be afraid to use anything that came from recycled pee ...

How about in the Dune books where they wore those suits that recycled it into drinking water?

[Sydney]

All water is recycled from pee at this point.

[hop_goblin]

In basic we had charts like these over every toilet and urinal. I may have long since forgoten how to take apart my M-16, but I can't pee without checking the color.

Awesome terror alert pee chart! Rocks!

[heavydoom]

I definitely seem to pee more often when I'm drinking tea, although I don't feel dehydrated at all.

The BBC seems to agree with most of your comments: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5281046.stm

me too. the pee is clear though. this is a good thing, i am cleansing out my kidneys. getting rid of the toxins.

[silverneedles]

"cleansing" ... that word just sets off sparks in my circuits...
kidneys get rid of "toxins" anyway, that is their job.

[hop_goblin]

"cleansing" ... that word just sets off sparks in my circuits...
kidneys get rid of "toxins" anyway, that is their job.

Dig the new avatar! lol

[silverneedles]

thanks, just uh, sippin my tea, man,
delicious tea

[ABx]

I've always heard that tea hydrates as well as water. I think that at the very low doses of caffeine you just end up peeing more frequently, but not really any more (dehydration is where you're getting rid of more water than you're taking in).

I haven't found a source (though I admittedly haven't looked), but my understanding is that the US became a primarily coffee drinking nation because in the early days they brewed coffee as a way of filtering the water (to some extent). If caffeine was that much of a diuretic then I'd expect that we wouldn't have made it very far

[leiche]

I also have to stop drinking tea early in the day or I'll have difficulty sleeping. And by difficulty, I mean maddening insomnia.

I think I may be just a tad abnormal -- I often fall asleep while drinking a cup of tea. Not mid-sip, of course. Sometimes, I seem to fall asleep more easily if I consume caffeine right before.

[joelbct]

All water is recycled from pee at this point.

Well, apparently there are 326,000,000 cubic MILES of water in the world... But yeah I would suspect that most of those H2O molecules have been through the fluid cycle of a living organism many times...

Of course, not all of it though... ice comets still deposit new H20 from space into the earth's atmosphere on a regular basis, and that water probably has never been peed!

[silverneedles]

mmm peee,
in history, doctors used to diagnose diabetes by tasting ...uhh, testing... sweetness in uhhh.... pee...

[Salsero]

in history, doctors used to diagnose diabetes by tasting ...uhh, testing... sweetness in uhhh.... pee...

Thanks, that makes me feel a lot better.

Even further off topic, is the header of your blog a shot in the NYC subway?

[silverneedles]

yeah,
... proceeding with offtopicness:
wasnt the shot i wanted, but next time ...
the header doesnt have enough color or something, i'm gonna change it in the near future

i was going to do something with the sleepers, but i couldnt make it work...