TIME
October 24, 1977 12:00 AM EDT
India’s Prime Minister Morarji Desai, 81, works twelve hours every day, travels incessantly around India addressing public meetings, talks with vigor and bluntness to his countrymen and conducts the business of government wherever he happens to be at the time.
What is the secret of his youthful vim?
Something of a health-food crank, the Prime Minister thrives on a regimen that includes daily doses of carrot or apple juice, milk, yogurt, honey, fresh fruit, nuts and dates, and five cloves of raw garlic. And one thing more: he drinks his own urine.
Early this month Desai startled a meeting of India’s Tuberculosis Association by informing his audience that “self-urine” therapy was a cure for cancer and cataracts; he claimed to have cured his own brother of tuberculosis that way. In response to a surprised reporter’s question, Desai acknowledged that “for the past five or six years, I have drunk a glass of my own urine—about six to eight ounces—every morning. It is very good for you, and it is even free. Even in the Bible,” he went on, “it says to drink from your own cistern. What is your own cistern? It is your own urine. Urine is the water of life.”
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