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Fitness Fanatic Claims He Is Healthier After Swapping Food For Drinking His Own Urine

Fitness Fanatic Claims He Is Healthier After Swapping Food For Drinking His Own Urine

John DePass first cut out animal products - then food altogether

Rebecca Shepherd

Rebecca Shepherd

Last night a study told us that vegetarians are 'less healthy' than meat-eaters. It was all to do with saturated fat and cholesterol.

But this takes things to a new we've-heard-it-all-now level... because a former Mr Universe competitor is claiming his health has improved after scrapping all food (we repeat, all food) and substituting it with his own piss. Oh, and the occasional fruit juice.

John DePass, 46, dedicated 30 years of his life to bodybuilding, but after developing chronic pain decided to overhaul his lifestyle three years ago.

The dad-of-three claims by firstly cutting out animal products, then all food, he has eliminated the pain he suffered on a daily basis.

From Monday to Friday, John replaces food with urine and the odd fruit juice, but at the weekend, he treats himself - but not like you or I would by going to our favourite fast-food place or gorging on a full tub of Ben & Jerry's. No, John likes to indulge in one home cooked meal of meat and carbs. Push the boat out, John.

John DePass drinking his own urine as part of a strict diet.
Kennedy News and Media

The weight loss specialist now claims he feels enlightened and healthier than ever - despite his wife's 'disgust' at his new drink of choice. We wouldn't be moaning, just think of the money they aren't spending on food.

John, from Ontario, Canada, said: "I call it 'unfooding'. From Monday to Friday I don't eat. I've also been experimenting with urine for the last two years and it has grown considerably in my life over the last six months.

"We can benefit from the antibodies that are present within it. It can help your immune system, digestion, provide amino acids, vitamins, minerals. It's filled with high-quality nutrients for our body.

"If I feel I must eat in the week, I use a raw fruit juice including apple, a beetroot, some carrots, celery - but that's once a day, then I try to stay empty for 23 hours again."

He's not selling it to us... plus, his piss must literally be H2O - if he drinks it, that is.

John DePass, 46, preparing fruit juice as part his regime.
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He continued: "On Fridays I have fruit and a smoothie, then on Saturdays I will reintroduce vegetables. On Sundays I try to indulge with meat and pasta, rice or potatoes. I'll sometimes have cookies or vegan ice cream for dessert too."

Despite his huge change in diet, John still values family meals and tries to eat with his children once a week. Until six months ago, he hid his taste for urine - even from his wife Dora - for fear of being judged.

John said: "My wife has gotten over her initial disgust, distaste and judgement of me, and has come to see how [drinking urine and unfooding] has benefited my life.

"Although she's not joining me in a drink, she's no longer being an additional resistance. I was so afraid of the ridicule and judgement, the opinions of others, that it really held me back - even my wife and children didn't know at first.

John DePass, 46, with wife Dora, 45, and their three children Michaila, 15, Sierra, 14 and Aniken, 7.
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"I would never push it upon my wife or my children though. I certainly wasn't considering that when I was 14 or 15 like my daughters.

"My 14-year-old daughter has been a little more open about it, but overall the kids aren't too impressed. I would not have been proud of my father for drinking his urine either.

"But my number one priority is that I'm a father and I want to interact with my kids at family dinner. I still think that eating is our biggest way of interacting, so I like to get together with my family and eat alongside them on Sundays."

John has been training as a bodybuilder since he was 19, but when he developed generalised pain and tiredness three decades later, he decided to look at changes in his lifestyle.

John DePass, now 46, in a bodybuilding video from 22 years ago.
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The Mr North America 1996 winner and Mr Universe competitor then vowed to leave his past behind and adopt 'unfooding' as a form of natural healing.

John said: "I lived for 30 years focusing on building up the body and trying to increase size - consuming nutrients, vitamins, minerals. After years of doing that consistently I noticed I was starting to have some symptoms that I had no explanation for.

"I was having digestive issues, sleep issues, real serious pain in my body. It wasn't isolated - it would be Achilles tendon pain, neck pain, shoulder pain. It would shift from one space to the other.

"I was exercising daily, keeping a positive mindset and meditating - why was I dealing with such pain and trauma in my life? I wasn't that old. I didn't want to accept that it was just the ageing process.

John's Facebook post claims that humans don't need protein and vitamins.
Kennedy News and Media

"A couple of years ago I began to reduce my meat and noticed changes right away. The pain started to reduce almost within a day or two. I slept better, felt better. My body is now more lively, energetic, vibrant.

"I'm able to communicate better, I'm able to express myself better. I'm more self aware and sleeping better. I can breathe more deeply."

John's low calorie intake has reportedly made little difference to his weight, despite going from eating 5,000 calories per day, to fewer than 3,000 a week.

In his 20s and 30s, he weighed 220lb as he entered competitions worldwide, however after changing careers, he weighed 180lbs as he stopped his intensive training.

John lifting weights in his home gym.
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Miraculously, he claims his 'fruitarian' lifestyle has only seen him lose around 30lbs. John said: "As a bodybuilder I was an extreme size and stature from aged 19 to 35.

"Between 35 and 40 I wasn't bodybuilding any longer, I was a professional trainer, so I lost a lot of weight then. Now, in my fruitarian and unfooding lifestyle, if I go five days without food or water I can be as low as 130lbs.

"Then if I re-hydrate and eat at the weekends, I could be up to around 150lbs."

Now a weight loss coach, John has a studio in his home where he sees clients. Although he has a unique diet himself, he tries not to introduce urine drinking when he first meets clients.

John training clients in home studio.
Kennedy News and Media

John said: "I'm a weight loss coach so I do online and in-studio training. Most of my clients are coming for weight loss and these things are all beneficial to weight loss, but I introduce them to people along the way.

"I don't tell people when they come in that they need to drink their urine or stop eating food. That's not how I start people. I start by getting them to track their food, make them accountable to me.

"Then if we aren't getting the results we want, we introduce one idea, such as intermittent fasting, which is quite a common trend right now."

Well, all the best of luck to him and I hope his health continues to improve. I like my food too much and, to be quite frank, drinking piss at my desk wouldn't go down well...

Featured Image Credit: Kennedy News and Media

Topics: Bodybuilder, Community, Weird, Canada