Dr. Berg gets Confronted by a Dietitian and an M.D. regarding the Water Myth

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Live from News Channel 8, this is Toyota Sports Talk with Glenn Harris. Well, it’s another hot summer in the city, and that means hydrating early and often, and making sure that you pay attention to the quality of fluids you’re drinking. Tonight on Sports Talk, we’re going to expose some of the myths about drinking water, and they can affect your overall health. No question. How you doing everybody and welcome to this edition of Toyota Sports Talk.

I’m Glenn Harris starting uh starting your weekend with us. Thank you. It’s another health and fitness Friday and we bring back one of the our original fitness pros, Dr. Eric Berg, author of the seven principles of fat burning. Doc, how you doing?

Great, thanks. You’ve been on the road and everything. So, you’re back. Back. All right.

But you got something real important to talk about and it’s about drinking water. And I’m sure all of you have heard your parents say you didn’t drink water. eight glasses, whatever. Uh you mentioned in your videos that eight glasses of water may not be right for all the people, you know, all the time. That goes uh against what we’ve been taught.

Well, I just want to say that there it’s there’s a lot of controversy with this water thing. Everyone’s pushing this water. You got to drink eight glasses. I used to be the guy pushing water. You have to drink your water.

Until I bought a machine to look at the hydration and I find the more people drink, the more dehydrated they become. Because if you think about it, when you drink water uh and then you urinate, you are the urine is a lot more concentrated in all the minerals, electrolytes and uh proteins and that’s coming out of the body. So if you drink a too much water, you’ll flush out your electrolytes. And there’s even a condition called hyponetriia, which basically means you deplete all your minerals from your heart and you get a heart attack. So this whole myth of drinking all this water is based on uh just random opinion.

So the key is to make sure you don’t overdrink. Now I know it’s hot out there so drink it. But water doesn’t necessarily hydrate you because it’s filtered and it’s filtered through a lot of different systems unless you buy bottle water and then you’re drinking water without the minerals and that’s the danger of drinking too much water without minerals. Yeah. Now, tap water has nothing in it, right?

Tap water has a lot of stuff in it as far as bad things. Chlor, it has chlorine and it has all sorts of stuff, but it doesn’t have the minerals. Like growing up, you had a well, you had well water, you had spring water, artisian water. All those minerals were really good for us. How bad is chlorine?

Chlorine is very bad. It’s very I mean it it kills bacteria but um what happens is it it’s a it’s a very highly reactive chemical. So you drink I mean it’s it’s not good. I don’t like it. Yeah.

Oh man. How much water do we need? Well, you need to drink when you’re thirsty. I know there’s this myth that you say, “Well, our bodies don’t know when we’re thirsty and you have to um you know, by the time you drink, it’s too late. You’re already dehydrated.

” That is based on someone’s opinion. It’s not true. You know, when you’re thirsty, you drink and then you drink till you’re full. But this whole thing where you’re taking this gallon jug and you’re drinking, drinking, drinking, you’re basically diluting all your minerals in your body and you start to develop all sorts of deficiencies and magnesium, calcium, and potassium, and well, I go to the gym and guys bring gallons of water. A gallon.

Uh, it’s frozen most of the time. It, you know, gets down and they just drink and drink. If you sweat a lot, well then definitely drink. But just use your uh sense of thirst to know that when you’re thirsty. I know people that do not drink water at all.

They don’t drink it at all. Yeah. They say they don’t like water. You know why they don’t like water? Because water has been so filtered that there’s no minerals in it.

It’s not satisfied. We have some water here. This is called ice Icelandic. This is uh glacier water from an actual glacier. Pelgrino.

This is from underground in Italy. These are mineral waters. They’re spring waters. They have mineral mineral components and it’s very hydrating when I drink this stuff. Um I mean like growing up uh in Wisconsin, we drank hard water from the well and that was so satisfying when I drink filtered water or I drink tap water or that’s filtered.

It doesn’t do anything for me. It’s just not hydrating because the minerals. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Should we drink filtered water? Mineral water. What should we drink? Well, you got a lot of different types of water. You got spring water, you got hard water, you have uh distilled water, reverse osmosis.

Now, I’m not saying you have to buy bottled water all the time, but you should should think about getting some good mineral water, some high quality. Of course, I tried this glacier water. That’s I’m kind of spoiled on it now and it’s kind of expensive, but Pelgro is my favorite. It’s carbonated, right? But if you get a good spring water, I think you’re going to be fine.

Now, get a filter in your house, but try not try to also get some good water from a bottle bottle place. Yeah. But you need the minerals. Now, if you don’t have um uh this type of water, you can also put minerals in the water like electrolytes. Yeah.

But make sure it doesn’t have the sugar. So, um I do not agree that you should drink distilled water because it pulls all the minerals out. It’s like a vacuum. It’ll pull everything out. Spring water is the best.

Hard water from the well is the best. What are they selling us? If if distilled water is not good now, somebody knows that. Well, it’s filtered. It’s just filtered.

You think you’re getting something good? It’s like a dollar for a little bottle. It’s just filtered water just like you would do on your tap. Yeah. It’s I mean, it’s just a joke.

If it’s a rip, it’s like you’re not getting anything now. Unless it’s from a spring, you know? You could even taste the water should taste almost sweet if it’s the real deal, right? And I can taste this and I’m going to have you taste it later and you just tell me what you think, but I mean, I can taste well water. It’s it’s just it’s hydrating, you know.

So, you could drink one of these and be thirst free for a few hours. Say, yes, that’s what I do. If I drink other water, it just doesn’t do anything for me. Right. Right.

Okay. Yeah. Next up, we’ll open up for your health and fitness call for Doc 703871020. and all calls will have a chance to win a copy of his book, The Seven Principles of Fat Burning and some of his nutrition product. To see the complete line, check out uh drberg.

com. Sports Talk Friday continues in a moment. I’ll be right back. Hey, you can check out Dr. Berg online and take the quiz to determine your body type at drberg.

com. Take a look at the blogs, videos, and other weight loss information from his bestselling book, which I have. We’re back with Dr. Eric Berg, author of The Seven Principles of Fat Burning. You can schedule a consultation with him by calling his office at 7033547336.

Let’s go to the first caller. Mary, go ahead. You’re on the air. Uh, yeah. Hi.

How you doing? I’m all right. How are you all doing? Okay, that’s good. Uh, listen, I just wanted to menti