I've been preaching this for quite a while now. If I have to post it again, so be it:
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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I have a crochet toast holding a sign saying "cook the toast, butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God, life is relentless."
Same energy lol
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It wouldn't be surprising if a person who was drinking too little water was also getting too little sleep and too little exercise, so they could have multiple sources for the same symptoms.
Most people do get enough water, tea, diet sodas or energy drinks, Gatorade, etc. most drinks are 95-99% water and have the same hydration effect as a glass of water. Caffeine isn't a strong enough diuretic to actually have any impact in 99.99% of cases. You would basically have to over dose on it and kill yourself before it became a real problem for water intake.
The problem almost always is lack of veggies, exercise, fruits, and lack of sleep.
Hydrohomies have caused a huge amount of problems with the whole drink more water thing. Over focus on a problem that doesn't actually exist while being toxic and aggressive at anyone who tries to correct them.
Calorie intake from drinks is a larger issue then lack of water. Which is solved via artifical sweetener or drinks that don't normally contain large amounts of calories. Assuming of course your trying to lose weight or it's hampering your ability to eat other food stuffs such as veggies.
Seriously people just eat some more veggies, walk a bit more and go to bed an hour earlier. It will do infinity more for you then drink more water.
Hey, you didn't have to make it personal...
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I’ve found that once I increased my salt intake (along with my water intake) my brain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, and pee went away.
Electrolytes, it’s what plants crave!
Your "pee went away"?
Wow seeing that gif was a forcible mental teleportation back into the early 90s.
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How can you not be getting enough salt?? We don’t need that much and it’s in basically everything
If you give up processed foods you will find that salt is in nothing unless you add it. I eat no processed food and I need to add quite a bit of salt to my food
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Maybe? Maybe not. It’s expensive to test for, and cheaper to treat the symptoms. And I can monitor my vitals myself.
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Obviously I don’t know anything about you but I have cystic fibrosis so I lose a TON of salt and do need a high salt diet, some people who carry the cystic fibrosis gene express it fairly strongly and need more salt… could be something unusual like that I guess
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Intake water? Like from the toilet?
Brawndo. It's got what we crave!
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Me before drinking lots of water: depressed
Me after drinking lots of water: depressed, but hydrated
Also, feeling more alert and, therefore, more aware of my depression.
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.
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- At best, if it as as good as it's said, it helps your liver, kidneys and bladder by getting rid of noxious substances faster and at lower concentration levels.
- As worst, if it has no benefits at all, you piss more often.
Unlike most "health" trends out there "drink more water" will be very good in the mid and long term if it works and only mildy inconvenient if it doesn't, so logically it seems worth trying unless you're in the kind of situation where taking a piss is somehow dangerous.
IMHO, people going for "convenience today" above all else is behind most of the shitty trends in most present day societies, and I don't just mean it in health terms.
I am one of the OG hydro homies and it legit changed my life drinking more water. Skin cleared up (acne wasn't terrible, but there was almost always some blemish), lost weight (less soda, less hunger in general), reduced stomach issues (helped with getting regular and not binging, just better general gut feeling), no more UTI's.
I also get to pee like 4 times throughout the day at work which just helps break up the day.
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I think with a lot of these health trends, it doesn't take account for the fact that humans are animals.
Animals can't always guarantee they'll get enough water, or enough food, or the right kinds of food. Bodies aren't like a machine that requires specifically calibrated amounts of inputs. Instead if you drink too much you'll pee out more. If you drink too little your pee will be more concentrated so your body retains more liquid. If you get more nutrients than you need, the extra will be eliminated.
It's probably true that with many things (except calories) it's better to get a bit too much rather than too little. Maybe it's true that for water it's better to get nearly the maximum rather than slightly more than the midpoint amount. But, it seems unlikely to me.
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Unless you are dehydrated drinking more water is of minimal benefit. Unless you're replacing other unhealthy drinks with water, but that's got little to do with the water.
Drinking more water is the most effective way to prevent and manage kidney stones by diluting urine and stopping mineral crystals from clumping together
It does seem like the "drink more water" propaganda which has gripped the US for many years now, has been an extremely succesful campaign for getting more Americans to lessen their sugary drink intake in favour of water. That is objectively a good thing.
The downside is all the Americans preaching to everyone else in the world on the internet about it, even though most of us already didn't drink excessive amounts of sugary drinks.
Look up how cells handle oxydation, radicals. More liquid helps.
Btw, the average adult drinks less than recommended.
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if you dont drink the pee, that's your problem, like that you just waste the water, you have to put it back
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You are not drinking more water, the average adult drinks too little, you're drinking enough.
edit: less -> little
Zu wenig auf Englisch ist too little. Less wäre der Komparativ (weniger)
Danke.
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my dude, i agree, but you've been doing that for what, three years? that doesn't really seem healthy.
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....... Do you guys not enjoy a good piss?
A good piss, sure.
The 4th good piss this morning so, far? No as much. I'm trying to rot my brain here and it's getting hard to do that when I have to get up and pee every 34 minutes and 23 seconds.
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But, but, it's 3am and I just drank 40 beers in Tijuana. It must be a water related issue.
See the trick is you gotta combine that with eating more fiber!
Then your will piss more and you will poop better.
After completely cutting fibre from my diet my poop has been easier than ever before, my water intake is unchanged except I don't find I drink enough anymore to turn my pee perfectly clear
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If ur constantly peeing ur probably drinking too much water. This is one of those things you don't really notice when you're doing it right, but it will drag you down if you are constantly dehydrated.
Yeah, it's over hyped.
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