Thus, drinking urine would increase the concentration of TNF and conceivably helped to shrink a malignancy.
Antibiotics are excreted virtually unchanged. Thus, if
antibiotics are in short supply and you are stranded in the woods with an infection, take the antibiotics you have and continue to recycle by drinking your own urine until you get to civilization. Nowadays, we know we can produce tumor necrosis factor by a simple injection of a killed bacterial vaccine.