Can Drinking More Water Help You To Lose Weight? – Dr. Berg

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hey guys Dr Burg here listen I want to answer this question that I keep getting over and over and over again um Dr Burg should I drink more water to help myself lose weight well the answer is yes it’s true that water is low in calories and the idea that it will fill you up and you’ll be less hungry for about a minute until you have to pee it all out water does not dissolve fat they don’t mix too well so drinking more water is not going to melt your fat off or help you lose weight it’s basically you’re going to you’re going to flush your electrolytes out when you and listen I’m not against water okay when you’re thirsty drink the water if you’re exercising drink more water but what I’m against is overhydration drinking too much water forcing your body to drink Way Beyond what you’re thirsty for is really really bad for someone to say that everyone needs a gallon of water a day it’s not quite true because there’s some dangers in that there’s a condition called hyponatremia which is basically um low salt in your blood low sodium in your blood so when you drink a lot of water you’re flushing out these key electrolytes pottassium sodium magnesium calcium and when you don’t have the electrolytes there goes the electrical conductivity to the heart there goes the muscle contraction uh and a lot of other issues so here are the symptoms of low electrolytes because of too much water with this condition called hypon nutria you can look this up I’ll put a link down below um and because we’ve been taught this so much uh a lot of people almost get pissed when I bring this up because it conflicts with what they already know or what they’ve been taught but if you have that Viewpoint just I want to ask you where did you who told you that who told you that you need to drink all this water who told you that everyone is dehydrated and you’ll find out like it’s when you start looking like well everyone just knows that well where who told you and do you know if that’s absolutely a truth you can get confusion weak muscles headaches your brain can swell and you can have an increased risk of This Thing Called Death you could actually die by drinking too much water um it can put you in a situation especially if you’re an athlete and you’re overhydrated just putting a lot of stress on the heart because you’re diluting the electrolytes again I’m not against drinking water just if you want to drink a lot of water just put some electrolytes in that water to make sure you don’t deplete your electrolytes and of course the worst thing you can do is drink distilled water and exercise because that will deplete the minerals even more um but go by your thirst are you thirsty put attention on am I thirsty of course you could for have no attention your body and forget about drinking water and that’s not good but the point is that um if you’re thirsty drink water if you’re not thirsty don’t drink as much especially Don’t force yourself to drink and your body will adapt to that as well last point about sports drinks and energy drinks uh which is a joke because they’ll put just a little bit of sodium and a lot of fructose or sugar high fructose corn syrup in these drinks which also depletes more potassium out of your body so you become even more dehydrated it’s sugar water basically and it’s expensive sugar water so uh that is not a good way to hydrate yourself all right thanks for watching press it forget it forget it I’m done press the Subscribe button and I will keep you updated on the future events