Avoid These Big Mistakes When Drinking Water

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this is an updated video on all of the myths about water because I found some more data about water that is just utterly ridiculous okay these ideas that people have in their mind let’s talk about the first one by the time you’re thirsty it’s too late you’re already dehydrated that is utterly ridiculous I don’t know where people got that idea but it’s kind of like you could say that about eating by the time you’re hungry it’s too late you’re starving your body has all these different perceptions thirst is one of them and uh your body will let you know when it’s thirsty I mean I don’t know who’s pushing this idea that we can’t go by thirst anymore we have to drink before we’re thirsty our bodies have the perception of thirst okay unless we have brain damage a tumor in our brain maybe some type of autoimmune uh condition to our brain or it could be that you’re just not having enough salt in your diet okay and so your blood is very diluted and you’re going to get rid of the sensation of thirst if you don’t have enough salt but you should really go by your thirst just drink when you’re thirsty all right next one is you should drink enough water until your urine is clear your urine should not be clear it should be slightly straw color or yellow that’s the normal color of urine if your urine is too clear you’re too diluted now if your urine is too dark okay that also doesn’t mean you need to drink more water that means that you might have a liver issue because the liver has something to do with getting rid of that pigment now if your urine is a little bit foamy it could be more of a kidney problem or it could be you’re consuming a little bit too much protein all right the next one you need to keep drinking so you’re going to be full so you’ll eat less like the water’s going to stay in your body right drinking more water is not going to help you lose weight now there is data that shows that if you replace your sodas with water yes of course you’re going to lose weight your consuming less sugar water but the water itself doesn’t help you burn fat all right the next one drinking more water will flush out your toxins most of the toxins are fat soluble they’re stuck in the fat cells you’re not going to detox by drinking a lot of water it’s not going to happen all right next one is water will prevent dehydration well yes you do need water for hydration of course but you also need electrolytes and sea salt which is actually electrolyte as as well because what’s going to happen is you’re going to drink all this water you’re going to dilute uh a mineral called sodium there’s a condition for this is called hyponatremia that means low sodium in the blood you can get swelling edema in your brain cramping you’re going to feel weak you’re going to get a headache you’re going to get irritable and you’re going to have cognitive problems and you could even go into a coma let me tell you a real life situation uh even in my practice I’ve had people come in that had high blood pressure they’re on a diuretic okay which by the way um lowers their sodium they’re told to drink a lot more water so now we’re really diluting uh that sodium they’re doing sodas they’re doing tea and on top of that they’re exercising and they’re sweating and they’re getting all these side effects so anytime someone is trying to hydrate yes think fluids but also think sodium as well but definitely don’t overdo it drink when you’re thirsty your body will tell you when you’re thirsty if you listen to it if you’re exercising if it’s hot outside if you’re sweating if you just did some aauna treatment or you drank a lot of alcohol you need to drink a lot more water if you’re at risk for a kidney stone drink at least 2 and a half liters of fluid a day so again I’m not against water but I am against drinking massive amounts of water when you create other imbalances another point about uh fluids is that drinking a lot of water right before you eat and you could drink right before eating it’s not going to be a problem but if someone has let’s say they have acid indigestion okay they have heartburn and they get bloating it could mean that they don’t have enough stomach acids it might not be the greatest idea to drink a lot of water right before you eat especially if you have those symptoms and I already talked about this but if you have kidney stones you want to consume at least two and a half liters of fluid every single day preventing this super concentrated urine um if you have gout uric acid Crystal one thing you can do is you can add a little bit of baking soda to the water to alkalize it which would then cause the gout symptoms to reduce now if you have kidney stones you can add lemon water because the citrates will bind with the oxalates and prevent the formation of oxalates connecting with calcium now if you go on the low carb ketogenic diet okay and you’re not consuming enough salt and you’re drinking a lot of water that can throw off things as well you might feel weaker you might have what’s known as the keto flu or keto fatigue when really you just need more salt the next thing that you hear drinking more water is really good for the kidney because it keeps the kidneys clean and functioning there’s this idea that if you keep flushing the kidneys they’ll be purified no that’s not true you’re just causing the kidneys to work a little bit harder it’s not going to clean out the kidneys by drinking more water the kidneys filter the blood and uh they recycle a lot of things in your blood but drinking more water doesn’t necessarily clean out the kidneys there’s no data that says that’s true when you consume certain foods like vegetables for example 80 to 95% of those vegetables are water you are getting a good amount of water from your vegetables even meat is between 60 and 65% water and when you are burning fat and you’re generating water because when you oxidize fat you generate water and CO2 in the mitochondria in fact you’ll generate a little more water than the fat that you’re burning because of the oxygen so in other words let’s say for example you burn one pound of fat you’re going to make a little more than one pound of water it sounds incredible but it’s true but please don’t rely just on that water and then it’s okay to get most of your water in certain parts of the day but uh I wouldn’t necessarily uh ever force yourself to drink too much because the water intake is an individual thing and there’s so many variables and what one person needs might not be good for another person as far as thirst goes your thirst can go up if you’re a diabetic your thirst could also go up if you have too much calcium in the blood but both of those conditions diabetes as well as too much calcium in the blood it’s called hyper calcium yeah um can also cause excessive urination so that’s probably why you’re thirsty so I hope you have a little more knowledge about um drinking water if you have not seen my video on carbonated water I think you might enjoy that I put it up right here check it out