60-65% of the human body is water. 90% of the blood, 75% of the brain, 85% of the lungs is water. Humans lose water with perspiration, evaporation from the skin,micturation and defecation. If these losses are not replaced by drinking water, dehydration begins. You start to feel thirsty when dehyration reaches to 2 percent of body wate. If you don’t listen to the thirst or drink water or worse suppress your thirst with other beverages instead of water or eat something th eproblem gets worse.
13 reasons to drink water
- For your mouth: You need water for saliva production and mouth and throat mucosa moisturization, cleansing the mouth from food residues and and bacteria.
- For your brain: When you start to feel thirsty your brain is already dehydrated. If you don’t drink water regularly, the brain is tries to adapt to this ‘dehyrated’ state, but at a price. Dehydration causes confusion, loss of concentration, headaches and a tendency to sleep. Drinking a large glass of water at the beginning of tension-type headaches will help you with your pain.
- For your kidneys: Water is essential for your kidneys to function properly, to maintain body fluid balance and to dispose waste materials in urine. You can even possibly lose your kidney health when you are overly dehydrated.
- For your lungs: You need water to moisturize the mucous membranes that cover your airways and to increase fludity of your blood to be a better oxygen carrier.
- For your blood: Water is vital for healthy bodily functions that keep you alive, such as a healthy blood circulation, transportation of absorbed nutrients, secretion of hormones, and delivery.
- For your joints: Water is an indispensable element for the vitality and lubrication of your joints of your limbs and spine.
- For your intestines: When you get dehydrated, your body searches for extra water resources while reducing water excretion from the kidneys. The source usually used is water from yourgut content. If you do not want to take part in this scenario that ends with constipation, drink your water regularly.
- To lose weight: You can get confused over feel thirsty and feeling hungry. Because of the cofusion, you might end up eat stuff or drinking non water liquids, instead of drinking water. This causes your dehyration to get worse while you get extra calories. In addition, drinking water accelerates digestion and facilitates weight loss. Don’t forget eater has zero calories.
- For your skin: Dehydrated skin looks dull and dried like prunes. If you don’t want to look older and more wrinkled than you are, don’t forget to drink water.
- For your muscles: Your muscles cannot function optimally when they are dehydrated; you feel tired, your muscles ache and your sports performance deteriorates.
- For your body temperature: Water molecules in subcutaneous tissues lost as sweating in hot weather keeps your body temperature within normal limits.
- For our blood pressure: the body can’t adjusting blood pressure properly when dehydrated.
- For Detox: Water is used for waste disposal from the urines and feces.
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After drinking a glass of water ,check how much water you need daily.
Men at leat 2.5-3.5 liters, women at least 2-3 liters.
- These figures do not include caffeine drinks (tea, coffee and cola) with diuretic properties. You should drink at least that amount of extra water for each caffeinated beverage you drink.
- Other extras to watch for:
-When the weather is too hot
– When you exercise for a long time in hot weather
– Heated/air-conditioned ventilated environments
– After entering the sauna and bath
– When you have fever
– When you have diarrhea and vomiting
– If you take blood pressure medication as a diuretic
Don’t forget to!
• Drink water when you first wake up in the morning, after 7 hours of dehydration
• Drink water 2 hours before exercise, during exercise, after exercise
• Drink at the end of each hour you sit at your office.
