https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enaree

So, I always wondered what I would do if the Apocalypse broke out and all estradiol medication was gone.

I thought that maybe drinking the urine of pregnant mares would do the trick, but you’d die of overhydration long before you could get proper levels. However, it turns out that, similar to the production of Premarin, you could use the urine to make estrogen cheese. doggirl-smart

Unfortunately, I don’t really like cheese. So I’d be screwed either way catgirl-flop

  • AntifaSuperWombat [she/her]
    hexagon
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    1 day ago

    Breene et al. in 1965 had demonstrated salt absorption in cheese, when curd is submerged in brine. In this alternative hypothesis curd, contained within a horsehair or cloth bag, is submerged in warm pregnant mare urine, within a buried clay pot. This is just a variation of buried clay pot irrigation which has been known for over 2100 years. Clay pots could be buried singly or as a group within a small depression. It could then be intermittently refreshed with warm urine from nearby tethered pregnant mares. One mare can daily produce between 7.6 to 11.9 litres of urine. The pot’s aperture could be covered with a large cloth. This, fixed in position by pegs, would absorb the urine and preferentially drain it into it by placing a small stone placed over each clay pot’s aperture, causing a further depression. The curd, having absorbed oestrogens, is then extracted and prepared as cheese for storage and later ingestion.

    The "recipe" if anyone is curious.