Thank you, ABC News for this story about a Hindu organization in India that will soon begin selling a soft drink containing cow urine. The purpose of the drink is to help fight diseases like diabetes and cancer. They plan to add some aloe vera and gooseberry to enhance the drinking experience and claim they don’t know what the final flavor will be yet. My guess is cow urine.

The cow is sacred in Hinduism and urine in general has been used for its supposed medicinal properties for centuries. Believers of urine therapy claim that the practice can help cure almost any ailment. Problem is, mainstream medicine has never endorsed urine therapy as a safe or effective way to treat anything. This article from slate.com points out the numerous dangers of drinking your own urine and in my own survival research I learned that the U.S. Army Field Manual has urine on the list of no-noes.

But the concept of cow’s urine curing cancer brings up a deeper point. Is there a disease on earth that doesn’t have a potential cure waiting to be discovered? The notion that there’s a sort of Newton’s Law of Motion when it comes to disease and cure is pretty interesting and somewhat hopeful. For every disease, there is an equal and opposite cure? Sounds good to me. Followers of Islam believe that Allah has not created a disease that doesn’t have a cure. It’s all pretty fascinating stuff if you ask me.

What do you folks think?

Your homework for today:
How Newton’s Laws of Motion Work
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12 Deadly Diseases Cured in the 20th Century
Is the cure for heart disease one carrot away?