{"id":26017,"date":"2009-02-11T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/11\/yer-in-big-trouble-if-you-buy\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:07:20","slug":"yer-in-big-trouble-if-you-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/yer-in-big-trouble-if-you-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Yer in big trouble if you buy this woo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Bolivian woman has died from an injection of urine allegedly administered by her friend as a form of health therapy, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Investigating prosecutor Oscar Flores told The Associated Press that 35-year-old Gabriela Ascarrunz died Saturday of an &#8220;infection caused by urine that was injected by fashion designer Monica Schultz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Local newspapers reported that Schultz, who is known across Bolivia for her clothing lines, is a practitioner of urine therapy &#8212; a form of alternative medicine using human urine for cosmetic purposes or to treat various diseases. Some people rub it on their skin, while others inject or drink it.<\/p>\n<p>Skeptical scientists and physicians say there is no evidence urine treatment works and that chemicals it contains could potentially be toxic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090211\/ap_on_re_la_am_ca\/lt_bolivia_urine_therapy\">details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bolivian woman has died from an injection of urine allegedly administered by her friend as a form of health therapy, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Investigating prosecutor Oscar Flores told The Associated Press that 35-year-old Gabriela Ascarrunz died Saturday of an &#8220;infection caused by urine that was injected by fashion designer Monica Schultz.&#8221; Local newspapers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/yer-in-big-trouble-if-you-buy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yer in big trouble if you buy this woo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[103],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6LD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}