Teacher drinks own urine, bathes in it and rubs it over entire body claiming it helped him process his mum’s death

An American 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 who lives in Westminster, Colorado, first drank his own urine in 2012, as he heard that it could amplify the effects of psychedelic mushrooms.

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.”

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.

“You can drink your urine for extra effect,” he explained.

“At the time I was doing psychedelics and I used to drink my urine for that purpose.

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.

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.

He said: “If you’re eating lower quality foods the urine is going to have a much more pungent, bitter taste to it.

“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.

On what his loved ones thought, he said: “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.”

“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.”

Over the years, he has become more experimental with his urine, he explained: “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.

“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.”

“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,” he said.

“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.”

“Also, urine contains waste products, including urea and ammonia, which the body eliminates for a reason.

“Furthermore, applying urine to the skin can disrupt the skin’s natural pH balance and microbiome, leading to irritation, inflammation, and potentially allergic reactions.”

He explained: “It can sometimes be helpful to shave it off, especially during a full or new moon, much like how monks are known to do.

“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.”