A doctor advises several cabinet members on their diets this summer. He says urine is normal due to diets consisting entirely of fermented foods. Urine is usually a shade of yellow due to urobilin pigment, which your gut bacteria produce.
Urine color changes are often an emergency for most healthy people. If you get super fluorescent, you're eating too much of something, says nephrologist. Urine color change is accompanied by symptoms like pain, rash or leg swelling.
Urine changes can sometimes herald kidney problems, but most kidney disease is invisible. 37 million american adults have chronic kidney disease.
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