Intermittent Water Drinking: DON’T Drink Until Thirsty

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so I have a question for you did our ancestors carry around these water bottles sipping on them all day long the answer is no yet we tend to have this idea that we need to be sipping water all day long there’s a lot of push to drink often and stay hydrated I mean everywhere you go just you know like a restaurant for example what’s the first thing they ask you would you like some water at social events everyone’s drinking something constantly we’re told that we need to drink eight glasses water a day at least because our body is mostly made of water and no I’m not telling you not to drink water we need water and I’m not against water I just want to share some unique information that I think is going to help you the first thing relates to a very interesting research paper that I just stumbled on that has to do with um thirst and what thirst actually does for us it actually triggers a hormone called oxytocin that’s considered the Trust In Love hormone in fact oxytocin is a very powerful stress reducing hormone it actually has the ability to lower cortisol which is very interesting but the sensation of thirst actually increases oxytocin and if you never get thirsty because you’re drinking all day you’re not going to be able to trigger that oxytocin as much as if you waited until your body gave you signals of thirst I mean when you just think about our ancestors um they didn’t drink as frequent they might have drank a good amount of water right until they’re satisfied but they drank intermittently and just as uh you probably know the importance of eating intermittently what about drinking water intermittently I mean let’s just talk a little bit more about this oxytocin for a second oxytocin is what people with addictions are seeking speaking when they’re addicted to certain things whether it’s drugs or alcohol they’re trying to get more oxytocin oxytocin gives you very good feelings it helps reduce stress maybe you’ve heard about the oxytocin related to a mother and an infant when they’re bonding that will increase oxytocin also when you bond with your pets you can increase oxytocin uh they found donating and helping others can increase oxytocin social interaction but also there’s some other things that can increase this oxytocin which is I think a really important hormone to evaluate and just to understand so I already told you thirst can do it but also heat and even sweating increases oxytocin as well so apparently being overhydrated is not going to really help you with oxytocin so what I’m talking about is not reducing the quantity of water at all I’m not talking about that I’m talking about decreasing the frequency of drinking water I mean it’s just amazing how we drink water on this automatic type mechanism at a social activity uh we drink uh certain beverages for flavor but we don’t really drink for solving this thirst uh situation you may want to just try this out you get up in the morning ask yourself am I really thirsty before you eat your first meal maybe it’s at lunchtime are you really thirsty do you need to drink something because realize drinking a lot of water before a meal could dilute the hydrochloric acid that could affect your digestion but again I’m not against that if you’re thirsty but if you’re not thirsty I’m rarely thirsty until the late afternoon maybe even going at like 4 or 5:00 so lately I’ve been doing an experiment with myself just to not drink in the first part of the day and just see what happens but realize you may find that your stress goes down a bit if you don’t drink as often you should try it out and see now the other thing I want to mention about this is that when you drink a lot of water okay um you are diluting your sodium okay and I’ve talked about this in other videos there’s a condition called hyponatremia uh which you have low sodium and one reason for that is you’re drinking a lot of water and that can flesh out the electrolytes making you feel tired weak fatigued you see one of the things that you need to know about sodium is if you’re sodium deficient because you drink a lot of water that can stress out the sympathetic nervous system it can actually Elevate adrenaline and decrease your parasympathetics which is interesting SO waiting before you get thirsty to drink water and also having enough sodium can actually help your stress realize that the more the adrenals are activated the more sodium you’re going to need and when your adrenals are exhausted you start to lose aldosterone that’s another hormone that helps you retain salt and so you’re going to need more salt of course we don’t want you to get the salt from the chips and the salty snacks just add more sea salt to your meal and also realize that it’s the salt that helps hydrate you not just the water you need a combination of both with too much water and not enough salt that equals dehydration and I’m talking about the intracellular dehydration so salt is so important also when you’re low in salt you can actually be at risk for insulin resistance leg cramps and even abdominal pain so I would not just pay attention to thirst as a sensation but also to your Cravings to Salt don’t ignore those and if you’re concerned about having too much salt because of your blood pressure just increase your potassium but I will say I’m not against drinking water okay just don’t drink it so uh frequent okay when you drink it you might want to just consider waiting until you’re thirsty and then getting most of your water when you’re thirsty I mean we do lose water just from breathing you lose between 10 to 20 milliliters of water every hour not exercising or anything just at rest when you’re breathing for an hour you’re losing some water that’s between 240 and 480 milliliters which is between A4 or a half of a liter of fluid just by breathing now when you add exercise to that you increase that by about 4X depending on how much exercise you do but you do lose water when you’re breathing when you’re sweating when you’re urinating when you have diarrhea when you have vomiting but there’s one more additional thing that you probably have never considered or realized when the humidity is low not high but low as in in the winter time that low humidity will draw out fluid from our body the air extracts water from our body which is interesting you would think that the high humidity will force you to lose water but no it’s the low humidity in the winter so just because it’s cold out don’t think that you don’t need water the other point I want to bring up about drinking a lot of water is that uh the plastic containers on average in one year a person consumes 16,000 microplastic particles from drinking water in these plastic containers every time you twist the plastic cap on that plastic bottle you release like 500 microplastic particles and as the temperature goes up and goes down that degrades the plastic as well and in one study I found 93% of all uh plastic bottles that were tested 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