unusual why did my pee smell so bad after a fast.
I quit my 4 day fast short of 2 days. The thing is, my urine wreaked. I mean really bad. There are words that can describe the smell but I'd rather not go through any of them. My question was why? So here goes. A little after 24 hours, your digestion starts to run out of glucose. So the body then starts supplementing glucose from it's store of glucose from your organs. The store molecule is called Glycogen. Glycogen is glucose stored with 3 parts water, 1 part glucose. So, after 24 hours, when the Glycogen starts inserting glucose into your bloodstream, that 3 parts of water starts going out as urine. So you pee every 20 or 30 minutes until the store is empty. Staying close to a bathroom is imperative. Ok, after the fast ended, my pee was really strong. I asked Gemini why my pee might smell so bad. And it said that I was probably short of water, that is dehydrated. There are other reasons, of course, but that was probably the main reason. After a bit ...