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Matthew Barton, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University

If you get lost in the bush, can you really survive by drinking your own pee?

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TV adventurer Bear Grylls has built a global reputation through his often unconventional and sometimes extreme survival feats to stay hydrated.

He has squeezed moisture from elephant dung, sipped the contents of camel intestines, downed yak eyeball juice and, perhaps most famously, drank his own urine.

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