i could and i do regularly. it took a slow time of transition to get over the LONG ingrained thoughts that it was a waste product. But i am coming from a different place, due to intense yoga practice, reading up on organic, raw foods lifestyle, and western alternative medicine and arueveda...this is nothing new, nothing unique--loads of people do it--i have a chronic illness, and it helps me tremendously. If it was just for a beauty treatment, i might have thought twice, but having chronic lymes, this therapy has helped me immensely with my constant pain and debilitation--far greater than any pain reliever...and it has the added benefit of giving beautiful skin and hair. It really doesnt taste bad at all if you avoid the first morning batch..lol--i know loads of people who do this and i even know a few who go on urine fasts...drinking or eating nothing but their urine for a week at a time--i wouldnt do that, but they get amazing results healthwise and detox wise...
like i said--each to their own...the idea of eating bacteria for probiotics...well, thats something new isnt it? if you had told folks years ago that yogurt was full of bacteria that you needed to keep your gut going well--they would have thought it was gross...now lots of people take probiotics and even ingest soil organisms as a way to stay healthy...
how aobut sushi? lol--years ago, if someone had told you you would eat raw fish? would you have salivated or gagged? lol