It started years ago with an advise given to sportsmen, drinking a lot of water makes sure that you do not become dehydrated. But drinking too much water now seems to not be healthy either. There is namely a danger when you start drinking too much water. When you are sweating a lot, then you also drink more, because you have also lost a lot of moisture. But when you drink too much water, the urine production stops when your body is moving intensively and that can also be dangerous. Sportsmen that have drank a lot of water, can suffer from a water poisoning after a match and weigh more after than before the competition. Water poisoning gives a bloated feeling, nausea and a headache. The dangers were underestimated, and still are, even after several cases where water poisoning was proven to be the cause of death and not the heat during the sports. Probably the braincells are filled up with moisture and swell up. What follows is confusion, convulsions, coma and finally death.
Your body consists for the majority out of water, 75% of our body is water. You need water for absorbing nutrients, but also for processing waste materials and it is necessary to stay alive. The drinking of water is essential to the human life form, so that it can prevent diseases and by drinking water you will take better care of yourself and feel better.
Some people do not drink enough water. When the body does not get enough water, then that will ensure that the body can not dispose of all the toxins. When the body starts to dehydrate, it will go into survival mode. The results of a shortage of water:
People do not always drink enough water, they are scared that they need to go to the toilet too often. But you cannot miss water, your body needs it. In the beginning you might go to the toilet more often, because you start drinking more water, but when your body becomes used to drinking more water, then the desire to go to the toilet does not arise that quickly anymore. Your body namely adapts and then you start to notice that drinking more water only gets better (watch out, not too much).
How much do you need a day?
If you want to drink more water, but you do not have a clue how to do this, then make use of these tips:
You lose a lot of fluids in a day, because of urine you lose about 1400 ml a day, because of excretion 100 ml, because of breathing out you lose about 500 ml and because of sweating you lose another 500 ml on average.
During the day we take in fluids in different ways, but we also lose a lot of them, for instance because of sweating. Taking in fluids happens through drinking and eating. The best is to take in around 1,5 to 2 litres of fluids through drinking. Through eating you can take in around 900 ml a day. There are moments when you need more fluids than others:
It is important that you take in the right amount of water every day, your body can not go without water. But too much is also not good. You often notice yourself how much water you need. Make sure that you spread your water intake over the day, so that your body will not dehydrate. When you do a little more than usual on a day, workout more intensively, you are ill or it is warm, make sure you drink a bit more water, because you are also losing more fluids. Water has a big number of qualities:
