Dehydration: Good Hydration is
The Forgotten Secret to Optimal Health

Just think about it. You are at least 75% water, your brain is 80% and your blood 90%.

Pretty important, right?

Dehydration symptoms include lethargy, headaches; in short even when it's mild, there's a marked loss of energy.

Water affects every part of your body's vital functions:

• nutrients and oxygen have to travel between cells
• provides the cushioning for your joints
• regulates body temperature
• waste removal
• determines the rate of your digestion, fat burning, etc.

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So how much water do you need to avoid dehydration?

The well known adage that you need 8 glasses a day is a good start, but not very precise.

Your needs will vary greatly based on the climate where you live, how active you are physically, etc.

Start with 1/2 ounce of water for every pound of body weight.

Easy to calculate:

Your weight right now divided by 2 - that's how many fluid ounces you need per day.

So at an average weight of 150 pounds, you would drink 75 fluid ounces.

This is good hydration.

8 glasses of 8 ounces each is 64 ounces so you see it's close, but not enough.

When you exert yourself or use a sauna, you need to greatly increase your water before and during this time.

• Do not wait till you feel thirsty. By this point you are already in a state of dehydration.



• Drink throughout the day. This may take a little effort at first to form a new habit. It is not the same to guzzle down 4 glasses at once.



• Do not drink with your meals. Once you've trained yourself to drink evenly the rest of the time, this will be easy. Drinking with a meal dilutes the entire digestive process making your body work much harder than is necessary.
• We're talking pure water or fresh made green drinks here, not sodas or coffee or other sugary drinks.
• Take a little time to educate yourself about water - there is a big difference in the quality of water. Learn about bottled water, drinking distilled water, or the popular reverse osmosis water, you'll see an overview about the different systems.

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You don't need to suffer from dehydration symptoms.

This is one of the easiest health challenges to correct.

All you need is to train yourself to drink water every half hour based on the one-half ounce per pound of body weight.

You will ensure proper hydration and feel great and energetic.

This article has mainly addressed drinking water, but do you know that you absorb many more contaminants (about 6 times as much) in a ten minute shower than from drinking throughout the day?

It is vital to have the right water.

It would seem like the benefits of drinking water are obvious, but don't let that be an overlooked part of your strategy for optimal health.

Read about dehydration symptoms and what you can do about them.

The causes of dehydration are pretty straight-forward - your body needs water!

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