Former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida, along with his father Yoshizo – a Shotokan karate 8th dan – have long intrigued the martial arts and health community with their unique health practices…
And, well, the most talked about of those being their tradition of drinking urine for its supposed health benefits.
This practice, passed down through generations of the Machida family, was brought into the spotlight during an interview with Ariel Helwani; where they discussed the reasons behind this unconventional health regimen.
Yoshizo explained:
The reason why is because it actually is a health reason.
And what happens is when you eat and all the food that you eat and you digest, not all of it comes out, but when you drink urine in the morning, it helps flush your system out.
So, it basically cleans your system every day when you drink your urine.
His son, Lyoto, turned to urine consumption to cure a persistent cough that medicines could not alleviate:
The reason he started really drinking his urine is about two or three years ago he had this cough, he would take medicine, take medicine, he wouldn’t get rid of it and he asked his dad: “What should I do?”
And he said: “Hey, drink your urine, that’s what’s going to keep your healthy.”And that’s exactly what he did – he drank the urine and within a few days, a few weeks his cough went away and he didn’t have that problem any more.
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