I think with a lot of these health trends, it doesn’t take account for the fact that humans are animals.
Animals can’t always guarantee they’ll get enough water, or enough food, or the right kinds of food. Bodies aren’t like a machine that requires specifically calibrated amounts of inputs. Instead if you drink too much you’ll pee out more. If you drink too little your pee will be more concentrated so your body retains more liquid. If you get more nutrients than you need, the extra will be eliminated.
It’s probably true that with many things (except calories) it’s better to get a bit too much rather than too little. Maybe it’s true that for water it’s better to get nearly the maximum rather than slightly more than the midpoint amount. But, it seems unlikely to me.
if you dont drink the pee, that’s your problem, like that you just waste the water, you have to put it back
It’s the ciiiiircle…
Pissing is its own reward
See the trick is you gotta combine that with eating more fiber!
Then your will piss more and you will poop better.
The quality of my poops after eating more fiber is probably one of the things im most proud of but cant tell anyone in normal life.
Me before drinking lots of water: depressed
Me after drinking lots of water: depressed, but hydrated
Also, feeling more alert and, therefore, more aware of my depression.
“You know what’s smarter than a brain? 2 million nephrons.”
- At best, if it as as good as it’s said, it helps your liver, kidneys and bladder by getting rid of noxious substances faster and at lower concentration levels.
- As worst, if it has no benefits at all, you piss more often.
Unlike most “health” trends out there “drink more water” will be very good in the mid and long term if it works and only mildy inconvenient if it doesn’t, so logically it seems worth trying unless you’re in the kind of situation where taking a piss is somehow dangerous.
IMHO, people going for “convenience today” above all else is behind most of the shitty trends in most present day societies, and I don’t just mean it in health terms.
I am one of the OG hydro homies and it legit changed my life drinking more water. Skin cleared up (acne wasn’t terrible, but there was almost always some blemish), lost weight (less soda, less hunger in general), reduced stomach issues (helped with getting regular and not binging, just better general gut feeling), no more UTI’s.
I also get to pee like 4 times throughout the day at work which just helps break up the day.
Instant gratification. Why have thing later? Want thing now. Give thing now. Why wait for later?
You are not drinking more water, the average adult drinks too little, you’re drinking enough.
edit: less -> little
Zu wenig auf Englisch ist too little. Less wäre der Komparativ (weniger)
Danke.
I see coherent and non-aggressive explanations for (proper) grammar usage, ich freue mich. : >
… Do you guys not enjoy a good piss?
A good piss, sure.
The 4th good piss this morning so, far? No as much. I’m trying to rot my brain here and it’s getting hard to do that when I have to get up and pee every 34 minutes and 23 seconds.
34 minutes is a good rotation. nice clean kidneys, not gonna have kidney stones
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.
You should know that almost 100% of people who have started taking dihydrogen monoxide have died and the rest are expected to die.
TIL resentment and chronic migraines are the same thing
I definitely get chronic migraines from my ex, so I think you might be onto something.
I’ve been preaching this for quite a while now. If I have to post it again, so be it:
I have a crochet toast holding a sign saying “cook the toast, butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God, life is relentless.”
Same energy lol
More like “life is a Piss-on” amirite
One of my favorites: https://youtu.be/HrBJDvPZf2g
It works. You dont feel hungry.
Unless you are dehydrated drinking more water is of minimal benefit. Unless you’re replacing other unhealthy drinks with water, but that’s got little to do with the water.
Drinking more water is the most effective way to prevent and manage kidney stones by diluting urine and stopping mineral crystals from clumping together
It does seem like the “drink more water” propaganda which has gripped the US for many years now, has been an extremely succesful campaign for getting more Americans to lessen their sugary drink intake in favour of water. That is objectively a good thing.
The downside is all the Americans preaching to everyone else in the world on the internet about it, even though most of us already didn’t drink excessive amounts of sugary drinks.
Look up how cells handle oxydation, radicals. More liquid helps.
Btw, the average adult drinks less than recommended.
Btw, the average adult drinks less than recommended.
Their point is that the recommended amount in the US is bollocks
Yeah, that wasn’t clear from their post.
It wouldn’t be surprising if a person who was drinking too little water was also getting too little sleep and too little exercise, so they could have multiple sources for the same symptoms.
Have you been spying on me?
Hey, you didn’t have to make it personal…
I’ve found that once I increased my salt intake (along with my water intake) my brain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, and pee went away.
How can you not be getting enough salt?? We don’t need that much and it’s in basically everything
But if you drink more water, you also need more salt.
Huh? If you have more salt, you also need more water.
🤷♂️
Maybe? Maybe not. It’s expensive to test for, and cheaper to treat the symptoms. And I can monitor my vitals myself.
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Obviously I don’t know anything about you but I have cystic fibrosis so I lose a TON of salt and do need a high salt diet, some people who carry the cystic fibrosis gene express it fairly strongly and need more salt… could be something unusual like that I guess
yeah, I saw that in an episode of Star Trek.
Mango chili LMNT packet in 40oz of ice water is my go to fav.
LMNT is awesome! Mango chili low key scares me. 😂
This conversation got me super excited to try it, only to see that it costs 3x as much as Powerade Zero packets. Since we easily chew through a 10pack of packets a week, I can’t bring myself to have her try it.
I understand. It is costly. I use it because of its potency and other ingredients. But I am open to suggestions for better products.
We tried the cheapest stuff Amazon will sell and went back to Powerade Zero.
The next step is trying to build your own electrolyte drink, but that is a recipe for disaster.
Puns aside, I was concerned about giving myself an electrolyte imbalance. I asked the doctor about it and they told me to just eat food, weirdo (sass for dramatic emphasis, but I definitely got the look I give end users when they ask stupid questions).
FYI they make mango chili Peeps.
Electrolytes, it’s what plants crave!
Your “pee went away”?
I’m fucking dying lmao
Wow seeing that gif was a forcible mental teleportation back into the early 90s.
Okay, slightly exaggerated. More like I stopped peeing as frequently.
Salt causes water retention.
Intake water? Like from the toilet?
Brawndo. It’s got what we crave!
Electrolytes, what’s that?
(To the tune of mxpx’s “responsibility, what’s that?”)
mxpx
Woah, that takes me back
Consider also reducing your sugar intake!
TFW experiencing all the symptoms of addiction to sugar: “I must not be drinking enough water 🤔”
I really struggle with this one. I love sugary treats. Chocolate, fizzy drinks, etc.
Don’t do drugs.
- But I like it so much!
Hint: sugar is a drug
With fizzy drinks I found it very easy to shift towards flavored seltzers instead of it’s the fizz specifically. And if it’s sodas… Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular due to the mix of multiple sweeteners. Totally different from diet sodas which usually just use one or two, usually aspartame which also has a strong aftertaste.
If possible for chocolate, higher quality products often will hit that craving better than the cheap candy bar type stuff with 5x the amount of sugar.
Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular
Unless you have hypersensitivities and can taste the sweeteners lmao. Though I have to say that most of regular sodas taste like chemicals too, so it’s not that different either way
I was gonna say, I can not only taste the difference, but I also get violent diarrhea whenever I drink the zero-sugar sodas.
Be somewhat wary of artificial sweeteners, most of them are relatively new and so have unwanted side effects ore unknown side effect. (I geuss it’s like vaping : better than smoking but not great). Some known ones include : --cancer-- (edit : the cancer part is wrong aparently, see coment bellow) and obesity because you body cranks your calorie retention to the max (it sees a full can of something that tastes very much like sugar go in and no calories come out so it goes "wow, i’m really bad at extracting and storing energy. Let’s improve that ! And you get fucked next time you eat sugar) anyways, as with everything, be mindfull with consumption
Some known ones include : cancer and obesity because you body cranks your calorie retention to the max
The aspartame cancer study is a complete joke. They fed those mice a x1000 higher concentration of sweetener than any human would ever eat
Well til, anyways, i’m not telling you that articficial sweeteners are worse than sugar, i’m telling you that you might not want to take too much artificial sugar.
It gets easier if you go 100% cold turkey for a few months; I stopped any kind of refined sugar in like 2016 and now more subtle sweetnesses stand out, and the occasion I eat things like ice cream with chocolate or a glazed jelly donut makes me physically ill.
I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice? Why is there so much??
I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice?
Even more amazing is that people paint the Monster logo (the three claw marks) on their fucking cars. Imagine getting your sense of self-worth from your overpriced energy taurine drink of choice.
Or tattoos
I had this too. After a month without sugar, I lost the taste for it. I can do a few spoons of icecream or a tiny bit of cake, but that’s it. I can eat a shit ton of sweet fruit though. I ate 4 mangoes in a day. (Don’t do that.)
You’re not my supervisor!
No u.
sounds like dehydration
