“Drink a lot more water!” Keep hydrated! “Drink plenty of water!”
It appears to be quite unarguable information, and we hear it all the time, sometimes in connection with promises of fat loss and toxin removal.
We even hear the particular recommendation—eight glasses of water everyday so frequently that it’s nearly undebatable. But it is precisely the kind of advice that must be questioned and evaluated. Is it true that drinking enough water is the cure-all it’s cracked up to be?
Let’s talk about it!
Is it really necessary to drink eight glasses of water every day?
The most popular number for appropriate hydration is eight glasses (one glass=eight ounces, therefore sixty-four ounces) each day.
Another piece of water advice is that your body weight in pounds divided by two equals your magic number in ounces. (A 200-pound male, for example, should drink 100 ounces of water each day.)
Neither of them is right, and there is no one-size-fits-all formula or figure that will inform you how much water you ‘need.’ Yes, the body needs water and some bodies require a lot of it.
Your surroundings and activity levels are two important aspects that will influence your body’s water requirements. Universal statistics and formulas are not accurate predictors of your individual water supply.
Is the human body truly 70% water?
Certainly not. Your body contains not a tiny little bit of pure water. All of the fluid in the body, including ‘water,’ is electrolyte fluid. Water is only one component of these fluids, and your body processes hard to keep the right balance of water, electrolytes, and minerals in these fluids.
Drinking much more water than you need just strains this biological function. no to mention the work that the organs like the kidneys have to do to process all that water.
Is it true that water flushes away toxins?
The majority of poisons are fat-soluble and accumulate in fat. It would be lovely if we could rinse our insides as we do our dishes, however, putting more water in your body has no effect on poisonous or hazardous materials that have made their way in.
Does sipping more water improve fat loss?
Go wash a slice of greasy bacon in the sink. Is it still smeared with fat? Yes, of course! Water has no effect on the status of the fat in your body. No, it will not improve your body’s ability to burn fat.
Is it possible that the body does not recognize thirst?
When the body is thirsty, it lets you know! The human body has 52 perceptions, including hunger, thirst, hot and cold. To put it frankly, I regularly hear individuals state that thirst is commonly confused for hunger.
NONSENSE!
Thirst and hunger are messages from your body that alert you to distinct demands. You can spot the difference, just as you can spot the difference between being hot and cold.
What’s the harm in drinking a lot of water?
A couple of additional glasses of water each day will not heal all of your ills. In general, it won’t damage you either. If your body isn’t successfully expelling excess water, you may feel bloated. Drinking too much water, on the other hand, can be harmful and even fatal.
Excessive water consumption, believe it or not, can promote dehydration by causing an imbalance in your body’s water, electrolytes, and minerals. Keep in mind that pee includes electrolytes, so those extra visits to the bathroom do result in some electrolyte and mineral loss. But things get worse.
Hyponatremia happens when the sodium in the body becomes too depleted to control the quantity of water that cells absorb.
The sodium-depleted cells inflate with water, resulting in a slew of symptoms and issues ranging from disorientation and headaches to coma or death. Yes, you read it correctly: drinking too much water may be fatal!
Now that I’ve taken the rug out from under the nonsense people, here’s the absurdly simple fix: When you’re thirsty, drink something. Within reason, your body can respond to varying quantities of water consumption. If you drink less water, your body will not excrete as much as it should, and you will become thirsty.
If you consume more water than you need, your body will flush it out. In summary, your body is smarter than conventional knowledge, and your water consumption is probably good (as long as you’re not thirsty!).
So, if you can’t count off sixty-four ounces every day, don’t think you’re doing something wrong. You probably don’t need it, and all of the claimed benefits are, at best, deceptive, and, at worst, harmful.
