What Your Pee Can Tell You About Your Health

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 pee).

"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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