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Carson Flowers, 29, a holistic health teacher, first drank his own urine in 2012 (Image: PA)
A teacher who drinks his own urine, which is fermented for up to four years, as well as bathing in it and rubbing it all over his body, claims drinking the “pleasant” tasting liquid helped him process the grief of losing his mother. Carson Flowers, 29, a holistic health teacher, first drank his own urine in 2012, as he heard that it could amplify the effects of psychedelic mushrooms.
He began drinking it regularly, as a form of therapy, after his mother, Sonya Lea Flowers, passed away at age 50 in 2016 from smoke inhalation when she accidentally set her house on fire, and he claims it helped him “lift the depression” he was feeling. Carson, who is single, thinks his urine can taste like either “bone broth” or “tea” depending on what he has eaten, and despite his loved ones being “grossed out” by his ritual, he has continued drinking his urine multiple times a day.
He now has a supply of four-year-old urine to drink and even puts fresh urine up his nose, uses it as a moisturiser and bathes in it he claims the latter got him “spiritually high” and he could “hear angels singing.”
To people wanting to try urine therapy, he would recommend “observing” a bottle of your urine and putting a “few drops of it under your tongue.”
Carson told PA Real Life: “You can do what’s called ageing your urine or fermenting it, where you just leave it in a bottle for a week or a month or years at a time. It just becomes a really potent, very high pH liquid, which has a lot of great benefits.
“Right now I have a couple of bottles that are at least four years old.”
Carson first tasted his own urine at age 17, after he and his brother listened to an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, about how psilocybin can remain in your urine after taking psychedelic mushrooms. “You can drink your urine for extra effect,” he explained.
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Carson’s urine stash (Image: PA)
“At the time I was doing psychedelics and I used to drink my urine for that purpose. It did kind of work.”
Sadly, in 2016 Carson’s mother, Sonya Lea Flowers, passed away from smoke inhalation after she accidentally set her house on fire. Carson gained around 85lb throughout the grieving process, so decided to try the snake diet a diet where people eat only for a couple of hours a day and starting with two days without food.
Carson then progressed to doing a six-day “dry fast” so did not eat or drink anything followed by a three-day urine fast, where he did not urinate. With the combination of exercise, Carson was able to lose around 100lb, and he became fascinated with the world of urine therapy so, he soon began drinking his morning urine every day.
by the idea of urine therapy. Now, he drinks his morning urine every day.
He explained: “If you’re eating lower quality foods the urine is going to have a much more pungent, bitter taste to it. If you experience anger, and other fear-based emotions, they can also have that bitter quality come through a lot stronger.
“Now, if you’re eating a much cleaner diet, a lot of people describe it as like drinking tea and a pleasant taste. If you have a saltier diet, it can taste a bit more like a broth.”
“The amount I drink depends on the day.”
When questioned about his family’s reaction, he shared: “They were a little bit grossed out or even worried about the practice because we are told that it is a waste product, and you shouldn’t consume it. My aunt was actually very worried that I was going to die.”
However, Carson revealed that urine therapy contributed to alleviating his grief. “The first thing that I noticed was I had a lot more mental clarity I could feel my emotions a lot more and I had suppressed a lot of sadness,” he informally explained.
“I was able to start to lift the depression that I was in and over time, over roughly a year of having a near daily practice with urine therapy, I started to have an intense spiritual awakening.”
Carson now embraces a routine of “looping” his urine he starts his day by drinking his morning urine followed by water, and continues this recycling practice throughout the day.
The man has been taking his urine experiments to new heights over the years. He said: “If I have the opportunity, I like to rub my urine all over my body my skin gets very soft from it and my skin feels stronger. I’ll soak a cotton ball in my urine and use it to help heal wounds and before I sleep, I like to rub it on my face, especially the forehead and the temples, which I find is really good for hydrating the brain.”
Then he opened up about another method saying, “You can put it up your nose as well, which is great for hydrating the sinuses in the brain and when I do a practice like that, before bed, I have really intense, incredibly vivid dreams.”
Once, this gentleman had around 114 litres of urine stored in bottles. With a holiday coming up, he decided to utilise half of it by adding to his bath.
Speaking about his experience, he declared,”I sat there soaking it all up in the bath and it got me really high like, spiritually high, and I could hear angels singing,”.
For those intrigued by urine therapy and looking to try for the first time, he suggests starting small, “I suggest just peeing in a cup or a bottle, and just observing it with your sight, with your smell, and really just noticing. A great way to start urine therapy without having it feel invasive is to put just a few drops of it under your tongue and hold it there for 10 minutes.”
Dr Giuseppe Aragona, a GP and medical adviser, has given a stern warning about the dangers of urine therapy: “Drinking or bathing in contaminated urine can lead to infections, including urinary tract infections (UTIs), skin infections, and gastrointestinal issues. Also, urine contains waste products, including urea and ammonia, which the body eliminates for a reason.
“Reintroducing these substances into the body through ingestion or skin contact can overload the kidneys and liver, potentially leading to toxicity and organ damage. Furthermore, applying urine to the skin can disrupt the skin’s natural pH balance and microbiome, leading to irritation, inflammation, and potentially allergic reactions.”
Carson, who practices urine therapy, also believes in the power of shaving his hair for spiritual reasons: “It can sometimes be helpful to shave it off, especially during a full or new moon, much like how monks are known to do.”
He shared his own experience with hair removal: “I think in 2020 and 2021 I did a full removal of facial hair and head hair, eyebrows included. Then I started growing it out 2022 and beyond, I had a big beard until the end of 2023 and felt called to burn it off and then shave it down.”
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