Hydration And Your Health: 5 Reasons To Drink More Water
“Water is life” is a saying many have heard countless times. From everyday things like our diet or skincare remedies to more serious matters like health conditions, water is almost always among the recommended solutions. This is mainly due to the human body consisting of 60% water — but not just any water. These bodily fluids specifically contain charged minerals called electrolytes that include compounds such as calcium, potassium, and sodium, which play many vital roles in the body — from enabling muscle movement to retaining water and balancing the body’s pH levels.
Every cell in our body needs these electrolytes and fluids to function optimally, and not getting enough water results in electrolyte imbalance that ultimately leads to dehydration. For starters, this condition has a wide range of symptoms, including constipation, headaches, dizziness, low blood pressure, fatigue, and irritability. As such, staying hydrated is very important no matter what you are doing. Here are five concrete health reasons that make it worth the effort.
1. Eliminates toxins
Eliminating toxins is a key process required for proper bodily functions, and this is achieved through sweating and going to the restroom. Sweating is a way for the body to regulate temperature before it gets too hot, and it uses water to do so, hence the thirst that comes after we work up a sweat. When it comes to our bowel movement, the body needs enough water for the kidneys to do their job and filter out unnecessary waste that exits the body in the form of urine.
2. Lubrication
Water helps protect, cushion, and lubricate the many joints in our body, the spinal cord, and various other tissues. Proper lubrication lets us do all feats of physical activity and exercises without feeling pain and discomfort in the arms, legs, shoulders, ankles, and so on. It can also lessen the discomfort from health conditions such as arthritis.
3. Elevates your mood
Being dehydrated makes anyone feel confused, fatigued, and anxious. Apart from preventing these symptoms of dehydration, a study points to higher water intake as being linked to better moods. Thus, people with good water drinking habits are more likely to get better sleep and experience positive feelings all day. According to the study, drinking an extra glass of water or two is well worth it to keep bad moods at bay.
As touched on in our previous article, water is among the key factors in reaching your weight loss goals. Drinking more water, alongside regular exercise and eating a balanced diet, helps shed those extra pounds by curbing your appetite, reducing excess calorie intake, burning extra calories, and elevating your exercise sessions.
5. Promotes regular bowel movement
Although fibre is the most prominent material that promotes good bowel movement, water is another component that keeps stool moist and moving through the digestive tract and prevents it from drying up and hardening. Hence, people who do not drink enough water or include fibre and magnesium in their diet frequently get constipated.
Conclusion
Of course, there are more reasons to drink water apart from the ones listed above, but these are among the most important ones to meet or, better yet, go beyond the recommended eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day.
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