Yellow Means Caution
Okay, here’s a question you probably haven’t been asked lately. What color is your pee? The reason I ask is that it’s the best indicator of how much water you need to drink. If you have light yellow pee you are drinking enough water. The darker the color of yellow, the more water you need. That’s a caution indicator as well.
So why is it yellow? Your kidneys do a couple of things that show up in your pee. They keep the salt content of the blood constant, and they filter waste out of your blood. So pee is water, salt, ammonia cell waste converted by the liver to urea and pigments from bilirubin, the waste from blood, is degraded to urobilins. Salt, water, and urea are all colorless, but urobilins are yellow. If you get dehydrated, your urine will contain less water and be darker yellow.
Now you know why I nag about drinking your water. If the stuff is concentrated it’s hard on your kidneys and bad for you.
TODAY: SEE HOW LIGHT YELLOW YOU CAN MAKE YOUR PEE.
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October 7, 2013 6:04 am
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