Machida’s dad explains benefits of urine drinking, then does it
Ariel Helwani: Does Yoshizo drink urine, why, and what are the benefits? Yoshizo Machida (through Ed Soares translation): The reason why is…
Ariel Helwani: Does Yoshizo drink urine, why, and what are the benefits?
Yoshizo Machida (through Ed Soares translation): The reason why is because it actually is a health reason. And what happens is when you eat and all the food that you eat and you digest, not all of it comes out but when you drink urine in the morning, it helps flush your system out. So, it basically cleans your system every day when you drink your urine.
AH: Does Lyoto drink urine daily?
YM: Yeah, I mean, the reason why… Lyoto did drink his urine every day up until you know for this fight but you know the reason he started really drinking his urine is about two or three years ago he had this cough, he would take medicine, take medicine, he wouldn’t get rid of it and he asked his Dad, What should I do? and he said, Hey, drink your urine, that’s what’s going to keep your healthy, and that’s exactly what he did, he drank the urine and within a few days, a few weeks his cough went away and he didn’t have that problem any more.
AH: Why does Yoshizo believe in drinking urine?
YM: It’s like a vaccine you know like you know sometimes when you take a vaccine for a disease, you know you’re taking of the same of what you’re trying to fight against and since the urine comes out of your body then you drink it again, it almost serves like a vaccine.
AH: Has Ed Soares ever drank urine before?
ES: I’ve never tried it. My partner’s tried it and he’s tried to make me try drinking it and I, you know, there was a time where they were talking about it and I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to try it, I’m going to try it’ and I even went and urinated in the cup and it was hot and my partner said, ‘Hey, it’s better to drink it when it’s cold’ and I let it get cold and I looked at it and I just couldn’t bear to do it, I couldn’t bear to do it, but I am interested in it, it’s amazing to me, I just, I just haven’t had the guts to do it, yet.
If Machida wins, I’ll try my urine. I’ll drink it.
AH: What does urine taste like?
ES: [Yoshizo] said that you know just depends, sometimes it’s sweet, sometime it’s salty, it really depends on what you eat. He says that as a matter of a fact, my urine was very clean and I asked him why and he says, ‘I’m not sure, but it was very clean so I drank two cups today.’ He says during the war in Japan, all the Japanese soldiers would drink their urine to help them immune from themselves whatever they were trying to fight. There wasn’t medicine back then so that was their only form of medicine.
YM: if you want, I’ll do it right now and drink some.
[Yoshizo heads the bathroom. Ed’s partner comes into the interview and explains urine tasting.]
It all depends what you have eaten the night before, you know, and sometimes if you have a little bit of this salt of course it tastes salty. It all depends but you know it’s just a matter of habit, you know, like right now I mean there’s day where I think right off the fountain (hot).
Now he’s just going to wash it down with some water, he’s enjoying himself, and there you have it. Mr. Machida drinking his urine on a Wednesday afternoon in Montreal.
Mr. Machida had some urine dribble down his chin while he drank the whole cup.