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Some people will try any type of cream or lotion to clear their skin, but would you go as far as drinking a dog's urine?

The majority of us would say no, but that is exactly what blogger Lynn Lew from America has been doing.

She claims that drinking dog urine has helped to clear her acne and given her a "glow".

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In a video posted online, Lynn explained her theory and how it has worked for her.

She said: "Many of you have asked me how I always look so good, how my makeup always looks so perfect, or how I always have this natural glow."

She then collects a cup full of urine from her dog and drinks it.

After finishing the unique drink, she continued: "Until I first drank my dog's pee, I was depressed, I was sad, and I had bad acne."

As reported by Cambridgeshire Live, she then offered some questionable facts about dog urine and its properties.

"Dog pee also has vitamin A in it, vitamin E in it, and it has 10 grams of calcium, and it's also proven to help cure cancer," she said.

While "urotherapy" used to be practised in ancient China, Rome, Greece and Egypt, it's not a practise which health experts today endorse.

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Not only that, but no studies have provided sufficient evidence of its efficacy or health benefits.

"It's a bizarre concept," Mr Zaki Almallah, consultant urologist at BMI Priory Hospital in Birmingham told Marie Claire.

"The kidneys filter the blood and any excess fluid, and salts and minerals are expelled.

"The point of urination is to rid the body of excess. Why would you want to re-absorb that?’ he asks, pertinently.

"The only time it's medically recommended to ingest urine is if you're stranded without food or water for many days."