4 Ways Your Urine Can Be Warning You About Your Health

There is an old English proverb that I continually hear quoted by dreamy romantics alike: The eyes are the window to the soul.

But there is another window to our inner selves. It’s one that we’ve known about for far longer, and one that can give us a far more accurate picture about our internal state. Yet, ironically, we tend to look at it far less, and we certainly don’t praise it in poetic Shakespearean verse. I’m talking about your pee. I remember having a laugh back in medical school when I came across a line in one of my textbooks quoting Hippocrates, the Father of Western Medicine, saying “no other (part) of the human body provides so much information … as does the urinary system.” Even 6,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablets have been found inscribed with medical evaluations of people’s urine.

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