Business Innovators Radio - Healthy Hydration

Episode Date: July 9, 2024

Making sure you have enough water is one of the simplest concepts in health. Your body uses water for a nearly innumerable number of processes and functions. Without water, you cannot survive; and when you don’t have enough water, you are not functioning at your best. So drink water. But it seems some things are easier said than done.In this episode, Dr. Dan, Dr. Riley and Angela will dive into the topic of healthy hydration. They cover the importance of staying hydrated and provide advice on proper hydration techniques, including electrolyte intake, heatwave precautions and ways to get more water into your daily routine. If staying hydrated is on your health habit to-do list, this episode will help you jump in!To learn more about this and other hot health topics, follow us on social media and subscribe to our WTH podcast. If you have a specific health question or would like to find out if we can help you with a personal health challenge, check out our office page or contact us at 412-369-0400/ [e-mail] always, our mission is to help you Get Healthy and Stay Healthy for a Lifetime!What the Health?!https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/what-the-health/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/healthy-hydration

Welcome to What the Health, where anything health is fair game as we tackle the trends and bust the myths about health and wellness. Here are your hosts, Dr. Dan and Angela Toro. And welcome to another episode of What the Health podcast. I am, Dr. Dan, here with two of my co-hosts. Angela. I'm Dr. Riley. Welcome back. Do the disclaimer.

You guys know that drill. We're here for informational purposes only and no way offering individualized medical advice. Always talk to your trusted health care provides. lighter before making changes. Beautiful. There we go. So do that. Although I don't think we're saying anything.

I don't know. It might be censored for this information that we're going to talk about today. Real hot topic here. Literally. Oh, she had to go there. We're talking about hydration today. It's funny because like when we start to develop and talk about what to talk about on these podcasts, we're like, don't we talk about this all the time?

Which again, we probably have in almost every. every overarching topic, one of the things we always talk about is make sure you're staying hydrated. Yes. We're in a massive heat wave right now in the northeast, and so thought it would be a nice public advice, public service announcement. Please, please, please stay hydrated. And that's it. We'll be back next. Oh, that was that. Sorry. No, go ahead, Angela.

She's going to do her spiel. You get on her soapbox here about drinking more water. Yeah, drinking water. And drinking water, actual water. The ice in my coffee doesn't count. I just finished my coffee too. Again, no, it honestly, it amazes me the number of people who don't drink anywhere near what they show. So we just came out of May either is national drink water.

Water Month or we just made it? We made it out. Yeah, okay. I think it was a day and we just made it in the month. Somebody has to do. So May at the office, we always do drink water month and just again is that reminder. But now that we're hitting into, apparently what is going to be a very hot summer because it's mid-June and we're having these weeks straight of 90 degrees, high humidity.

Yeah, it's definitely, I think we're hitting some records this week in terms of the number of days in a row of high. Yeah, high is both the, the, you know, the. be high and the low temperature as being high. Yeah. So the first thing people always ask is how much water should I drink? Because you hear so many different things. You hear, you know, it used to be the eight, you know, eight glasses a day, then it was 10, then it's half your body weight in ounces, and then it's, you know.

So I tell people what I was taught was 2.7 liters of fluids for women and 3.7 for men. Now, that includes fluids you get from watery foods that would include your coffee. That would, so that's fluids. So when you take that into account, that's kind of where the eight to ten cups of water is coming from. I think the half your body weight for the average person is a good number. The problem with that is if you get somebody that's very overweight, overly fat, that's, you're going to be too much. Yeah, so what I tell people is take your, if you think about your kind of, I guess, what your ideal weight. And then that, that's really the amount.

Because, again, if you have more muscle, you need more water. But if you have excess fat, you don't necessarily need that doesn't, you don't need more hydration for that. So that's where it just becomes a little bit tough to play around with. But yes, for the average person, half your weight in ounces. So, you know, 200 pound person, you're looking at 100 ounces. and again, eight ounces is, you know, considered a, yeah, that's a cup, which again, to me, so we keep, we keep the little box. So if you think of a typical, like, so a water bottle you would go grab the gas station or something is 16.9 ounces. That's basically two servings.

We get the little ones here at the office, and I'm like, oh my God. That's actually many ounces. That's so cute. We're even our coffee cups, right? Yeah. We have, like, gigantic coffee cups. And it's like, oh, yeah, I'm only having one cup of coffee, but a cup of coffee, I think is, what, like, six days? You know, something.

The American cup of coffee. Yeah, the American cup of coffee is like two cups. You guys got me the espresso for Christmas. And I, like, the first time I made that, I'm like, this is so tiny. And I'm like, oh, this is a cup of coffee. I'm like, this is what a cup of coffee is supposed to be. I was like, I need like two or three. But no, so if you, and so we actually, yeah, for the month of May, we had the, the

bottle sitting out to show how many of those you would need to drink. And if you think of it in that way, it's really not that much. I mean, you should be able to pick up one of those little bottles and chug that down. But for some reason, when people hear like 80 ounces or 100, they're like, oh, my gosh, that's... Yeah, so much water. So I tell people pick, I drink, I don't ever drink out of a cup. I always drink out of my water bottle. So get yourself a nice stainless steel water bottle that you know the ounces of, whether it's, you know,

24, 32. I had to go up to a 40 because I just drink so. But yeah, so I'm sitting here with my giant lot. It doesn't even fit in the cup holder. But, um, I know it's 40 ounces. I drink, I mean, I, I'm very active. So I drink three of these a day because that gets me my base amount. And then you need more if you're active and sweating. Um, so yeah. So again, get yourself a known amount. Have that with you and just know how many times you need to refill that. And then the more you do it, you just, it just becomes habit. So I know, like, I'm going to have my first one finished before lunch. That's so right there, I'm off to a good start. And then, you know, second one throughout the afternoon, third one throughout the evening. So it's just, you know,

and sometimes that third, you know, it's so when you get into that habit, you're just, you just don't think about it. Um, and that's the biggest thing. If you're, you're out and about running around and you don't have the water with you, it's, it makes it a lot harder. So it's a good reminder also, like, you're carrying this water, like, oh, maybe I should drink this. Yeah. And if you're not thirsty, because, you know, if you're thirsty, you're, you know, you're scheduled drinking for the day. Yeah. If it's, again, like, you know, like 10 o'clock, if it's 10 o'clock and you're going, have I had any water today? Like, you're already well, yeah, you're already well on your way to being dehydrated. I had my ice coffee. No, one tip that I find extremely helpful. And I, and I tell

patients this all the time is, you know, especially the ones that wake up and they're like, yeah, I just feel like I'm always stiff in the morning. It's like, okay, well, first of all, you're dehydrated because you haven't had any water for the last eight to 10 hours. So it's like, get up. You know, you haven't moved for the last, you know, eight to 10 hours being in bed. So it's like, get up. And before you start doing anything, before coffee hits your lips, before you do anything else, you should have 16 to 20 ounces of water. You know, and if you're, you know, if you're a decent, you know, golper, you can get that down pretty easily inside of.

inside of, you know, 15 minutes, you know. So it's like, just go to that first before you're like, well, you're making your coffee. Yeah. You know, fill up your coffee pot or whatever. You know, I do French press, so you got to, you know, you got to turn on the, boil water first. So it's like, you know, whatever you're doing to prep your tea or prep your water, you know, your beverage of choice in the morning. Aaron and I always argue over this. My wife and I are, you know, tea versus coffee at the house.

And she always jokes that she wants to start a tea shop. and just have the old crappy cup of coffee in the corner because that's what the majority of coffee shops do to tea drinkers where it's like, you know, beautiful coffee drinks and this and, oh, here's some crap tea in the corner. Oh, wait, I got to boil the water for you or here's the five-day-old, you know, iced tea that's been, you know, half warmed up. So in any event, what was I saying with that? You say, yeah, while you're getting your caffeine, grab or drink your water, yes, why are you getting your beverage or choice. What was I saying? Drink water. Yeah, just get up and drink that. You know, again, this time of year, it's a lot more on the mind, right?

If it's, it's easy to, you know, enjoy a really cold, you know, water beverage, you know, when it's, you know, 90 degrees outside. And it's like you walk outside and you start sweating. It's reminding me of our time down in Georgia, right, for school. Or, yeah, I mean, that was the one of the big reasons. I mean, we wanted to move back to family, but it's like, I could not see. stand, you know, basically from May through September, you know, when you're down in Georgia or below, it's like you walk outside and you're literally walking into a wall of water. So instantly start sweating.

So, yeah, that's what you're feeling now across, you know, a lot of states as we go into summer. So it's easy to drink that. But it's a lot harder when it's cold outside. You know, you have cool crisp mornings or cold. Or if you're inside in the AC all day, you might not. Yeah. Like, so again, it's hot. It's hot outside.

But if you're like, you know, if you work from home or you're just, you know, you're, you're like, oh, I'm just, I'm not going out. So you're hunkered down and you crank the AAC. 70 degrees. All of a sudden, you, you know, you'll forget that how hot it is. So, um, but yeah, that with this, the high heat and high humidity, you really want to make sure you're, you're staying hydrated. Um, especially if you're, if you are crazy and doing anything outside this week, you know, doing the, I know, I know it's like, everyone's like, oh, well, it's going to be nice, so I have to do, I have to get my artwork done. Don't do it in the middle of the day.

Do not do it in the middle of the day. And, yes, make sure you were getting lots and lots of water. But it's important to understand just, you know, we wanted to really help people understand the points of the electrolytes too, right? That's interesting. Yeah. That brings up the next point. Electrolites. It's what plants crave.

Sorry, it's from a movie idiocracy. If you've never seen it, we absolutely recommend. Highly recommend. It's absolutely hysterical. It's very vulgar, but just totally funny and ridiculous. Yeah. But yeah, so, yes, electrolytes, super important. Also have become a super marketed buzzword.

To the point that I said I was going nuts the other day. I see a commercial for... No, also, I didn't even see a commercial. I saw it in the store. I walked down to the gas station to grab... I was actually looking for... for something with electrolytes because I had a stomach bug and I, of course, I was out of my electrolytes at home.

And I see Gatorade with electrolytes. Like, this is how it was marketed. Gatorade with electrolytes. And, like, in the gas station, I think I actually yelled like, what the... Because that was supposed to be a Gatorade's thing for all ways. Yeah, we're a sports drink. We have electrolytes. So I'm like...

So now you were... basically admitting that that was not true and you were now marketing something. And guess what? The Gatorade with, I got it, the Gatorade with electrolytes, taste disgusting because that's what, I mean, electrolytes don't taste great. Electrolites are minerals. Yes, if you've ever had mineral water, it's, like, it's, it tastes like mineral. It's not, it's not sweet. It's not, yeah. It's very, yes, it's very, it's very, it's very, it's very, it's very, it's very, it's very, it's very, so I feel like we're doing a wine tasting right now or something. It's a little minerality on the palace. But, yeah, so, like, actual straight minerals taste like minerals. Try it for yourself.

Yeah. Now, and again, and that's actually the type of electrolytes I recommend. So the ones I use are called Light Show, L-Y-T-E, so, like, the end of Electrolite. Light show, you can get them on, I've only ever found them on Amazon. They might be in stores, I don't know. But it literally comes in a little, like, looks like a eyedropper. and you just put a little catful in your water.

And those are great. It's just the minerals. It doesn't have sugar. No artificial colors, flavors. It is just the minerals. So, again, it makes your water taste minerally. But, yeah, those I highly recommend. And if you are going out and buying the ones that are marketed, again,

trying to find the ones that don't have all the added stuff in it, the sugar, like, check the sugar. Always check the sugar. If you're buying anything marketed as with electrolytes, check the sugar. Because again, like people, these, um, companies that produce this stuff aren't dumb. They know that electrolytes don't taste good. So they load it up with sugar, so it tastes good. And they load it up with colors. So it looks pretty. So that people want to buy it and drink it. But because they did put the, you know, electrolytes in it, which usually is sodium and a little bit of potassium. maybe, they can market it as with electrolyte.

Because sodium is electrolytes, so technically, anything with sodium they can say with a left, I mean, soda technically has electrolytes. There you go. Oh, boy, there's the next marketing game. Pepsi with electrolytes. Yeah, so just, yeah, but just be very, very careful to watch that word because it just has become another marketing, you know, like gluten-free.

It's like, oh, it must be healthy, no. Yeah, it's all natural. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so. So my question is, did the Gatorade have sugar in it? The Gatorade with electrolytes had, I don't know if it was no sugar, but it, or it was low. It was one of the, it was one of the better ones I could find. It still had, it was pink, so it still had some kind of color in it.

But again, I'm like, coming off of day two, of nothing in my system, so I'm like, I need. Yeah, I need. That's a, yeah, circumstance that would be okay to have a little sugar. After Riley's pulling something up there. Yeah, so I'm just looking at one of the big name brand. The liquid IV hydration. They haven't no sugar one. I don't know what the content of that, but the liquid IV just straight up regular branding is 22% of, well, 11 grams of added sugar.

So 22% of your daily value and like potassium, you only get 8% of your daily value. I don't even see magnesium. No, and that's a big one. That one's huge. Yeah, I don't even throw that in there. So sodium, 22%, but if we were to pick one mineral that the majority of people are deficient in, I would probably say it's magnesium. Yeah, people do not get enough magnesium. Everyone gets potassium.

Because that's the go-to, right? Like, oh, yeah, my, you know, my blood pressure is high or, you know, or my water balances off. So I need to be on a potassium pill. Well, a lot of times you do that because you're on a blood pressure medication. And it's a diuretic. so it's pushing that fluid and electrolyte out of you, so it's like you need to be on a replacement for it. But that's, you know, yeah, if you're on any sort of medication,

I mean, you need to be making sure that you're getting, you know, your proper electrolyte balance. And magnesium is by far one of the biggest shortages. You can get it naturally and a lot of different nuts. I know Brazilian nuts are probably some of the most highly concentrated, you know, but there's a lot of different nuts that have good, good high quality, you know, electrolyte, you know, minerals in them. But again, it's not the kind of stuff we eat, we tend to eat a lot of in this country. And so, you know, there are. There's so many

different companies out there. You mentioned the one light. I know colleagues of ours recommend LM element. That's what I use. Yeah, that's what you use. It's very salty tasting, but, you know, it's not sweet. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I know it's decent for you. It's not sweet. Yeah. Yeah. And if you look at that. the labels, there's no artificial, you know, anything in it. And actually, they have some flavors to theirs too. Yeah, they add flavors to them. I would have to do more research on seeing how they add the flavors,

but it's not a sweet, no, it's not a sweet sugary flavor by any means. And that reminds me, we actually just, Aaron's our snack coordinator here at the office. You can thank her, yeah, when you guys always come in and thank us for having the snacks out. That's all Aaron. She takes care of us at home and it work. Did you ever hear that story that I got a nickname Snacks? We traveled from Atlanta to Dr. Jimmy's office in Burlington, New Jersey. That's one of, that was my main mentor in school who taught me the system of analysis.

But anyway, you know, we've rented a big van, you know, and like six of us, we drove from Atlanta up to New Jersey like 14 hours. to go to a seminar at his office for the weekend. So in doing that, Aaron packed snacks, not just for me, but for the entire car. And so Dr. Carmelow, Melo, he gave me the nickname Snacks because of all the snacks that I had to share because of my wonderful wife. So start calling me Dr. Snacks.

But yeah, but she found, for our drink water month, these true, so this one's true lemon, but there was also lime, I think there was even a grapefruit or orange one, but they're basically, they're zest. They're made from real, real lemon, so zero calories,

zero sugars, unsweetened, and you can just, their little packets, you can add to your water. So if you do use the true electrolytes that give it that more mineral taste, and you're like, oh, I can't drink this, especially if you're not a big water drinker to begin with, that can be a very,

a very off-putting taste, adding something like that. Even adding something like that to your regular water, if you don't, if you're not a big water person, can just give it that little, that little flavor without, again, adding the sugar to it and all the artificial crap that comes when you're buying the stuff that's marketed out there. Wow. How do I not even see these out?

Stuff happens in my office. Welcome to the office. Dr. Dan has all the adjusting, and everything else that goes on. behind the scenes. I'm like, what? They literally have been sitting up by the water for like two months now. Well, I'm going to take one of these and make sure I try this out.

I'll let you know how it goes. But again, there's no electrolyte in this. It's just the flavoring. But this could be a nice... It could be good if you... Yeah, if your electrolyte, water is more mineral than you can handle. That could just take some of the edge off of it.

Or again, if you're one of those people that don't like the taste of water, which I don't understand when people tell me personally, but... Sometimes water just has a... I'm very picky with my water. Oh, I'm very picky with my water. That's the other thing I was going to bring up. So if you're in

the Pittsburgh area, please drink filtered water. We have terrible water here. Yeah, we're like next to Flint. Yeah, we're literally a second behind Flint, Michigan, and lead content and, you know, God knows what else. And we're a very old city, old pipes.

Yeah. They are... They are... We're paying massive billions of dollars to fix it. Yes, but that's not going to happen. Yeah, immediately, correct. In fact, it makes me even more nervous, like, with all this work going on. Yeah, shaking up. Yeah, I'm like, so I know you have, like, a whole

filter. Yeah, we have a filter on our sink and our ice. Which is really nice. Yes. But I use zero water filters, which Brittany, who works here, turned me on two years ago. It's basically, it's a carbon-based filter like Britta, but Britta, I guess, had

two layers in the zero-water, has like five layers, so it does. And personally, when I used a Britta, I couldn't taste the difference between the tap water and the filtered water. The zero water, not only do I taste the difference, I know immediately when the filter's gone bad.

They have a test of mine. Yeah, you have a test that you can taste it though. As I'm saying, yeah. It's almost like... It gets, yeah. I know exactly what you're talking about. You know you have to change the filter. So it's like, again, with Brita, I'm like, have I changed this filter this year? I'm like, I never noticed. That's the thing. Zero water is very good.

Oh my God, the zero. So yes, I've become very, very picky with my water. I'm like, I miss my zero water when I'm traveling. Absolutely. But that's, yeah, that's been one of the best that I have found. And again, I mean, the filters might be a little on the pricey side, but well worth it for to have that good quality water. Yeah, we think about what you pay for a bottle of water, you know, and how much, how many, you know, glasses you're going to get them. I feel like they last decently long for as many, for as much as I go through. So. Yeah, I have to change our, our, our, our filter on our sink for our drinking water and ice, I change that maybe once every six months. And there are five of us who, you know, live in the house. And again, it's a five, it's a five, it's a five stage. But I mean, they're huge filter. So it's a five stage system. So you only have to replace like the first three. You're supposed to replace those like every six to 12 months. And then like the whole set,

the other, you know, the step four and five, you have to replace like, you know, once every three to five years. So yeah, so if you, yeah, if you own your home, those, I mean, those would definitely, I would think it would be worth looking into the investment. I know they even have the whole house filters. And yeah, and I get it. Like, you know, my mentor, uh, Dr. Bob DeMaria, he talks about this all the time. Because then you're, you know, if you're showering and, you know, especially you take hot showers, like, and there's a lot of chlorine because they're trying to, you know, keep it safe, you know, there's, there's a reason why we have, um, you know, a lot less infectious diseases now from, you know, a 100 to 100 years. Or from non-developed. Yeah, exactly. It's like because we have, you know, anti, yeah, filtered, you know, chlorinated water that keeps that stuff out. But that chlorine, also, you know, talking about electrolytes,

that chlorine actually leeches a lot of other electrolytes and puts an undue stress on your system. So when you're showering with it, when you're bathing with it, especially when you shower and it gets hot, you know, you're breathing that vapor in. You know, that does have an impact on your body. So there are a lot of people that have shower filters. We're not telling you to not shower, by the way. No, we're not. But, again, I mean, that just takes it to another level.

Again, I think there's a lot of steps that people can take it, you know, again, you know, someone who is, you know, 100, 200 pounds overweight. It's like, don't worry about your shower filter. Let's go out and take a walk on a daily basis. It's a lot more. It's prioritized. Yeah, there's a lot more you do. That's like, you know, the pinnacle of, you know, hey, I want to be optimally health. And I've changed everything else.

Okay, let's change the shower filter now. Like that's the next step if you're, you know, trying to, you know, be that absolute, you know, perfect, you know, cleansing environment. But again, it's like you're always, we live it. We live in nature. Hopefully, to some extent, we live in nature. And it's like, you know, there's always going to be some level of toxicity that our body has a filter for. It's called your liver and your skin and your lymphatic system. Like, you have a natural filtration system in your body.

So, again, a lot of people are trying to, you know, not add those undue toxins to their system by, you know, having these other artificial systems to, you know, to weed stuff out. So, again, I get it. It's a balance. It's a prioritization, like you said. But I think that shower filter is probably, you know, the very end of the line. But absolutely from the water you're drinking. That's much more concentrated. That's much more of a volume that you're saving yourself.

That's going through your whole system too. Yeah, that's. And then, yeah, and then the other just kind of PSA. I mentioned, you know, get a good stainless steel water bottle. And because that's the thing, especially this time of year, please, please, please, please, please, do not leave plastic water bottles in your car when it's 90 degrees outside. So the inside of your car is 120.

Yeah. And if you do have a water bottle, you left in the car, do not drink it. Um, those plastics, even though, you know, they've done a lot of work over the years with a BPA free, there's still, there's so many toxins and plastic that when it gets heated, leach into the water. So you really, really want to be careful with that. Um, I still remember a time of a friend of mine picked me up somewhere in the summer and had a water bottle. I literally, I mean, could have burned myself with this water bottle.

I'm like, please tell me you don't drink this. He's like, oh, like if it's, oh. No. Smacking out. Yeah, I'm like. Dump it out. So, yeah, just it's, you know, it's one thing in the winter to, you know, if you forget and leave your bottle in the car. But that's why I love the stainless steel, because I can.

If I'm running around, I can leave it, leave it in the car. One, it keeps the water cold. And two, it keeps it safe. So, um, very, you know, very important. And I even, you know, I have a smaller one that I use when I hike. It's like, yeah, it adds, you know, adds a little bit of weight. but I prefer that just to know that it's, again, staying cold. Yeah, absolutely worth it.

Yeah. So again, just to summarize the electrolytes, you know, I remember hearing years ago, it's like the salt in your system, which are, you know, your electrolytes, your sodium, your potassium, your magnesium, that concentration of electrolytes is what drives water across the cell membrane. So that's what is important to make sure that you have good, healthy establish. And again, your body holds that in a very, very tight ratio. If you have a cellular membrane that gets out of balance in terms of the positive negative concentration inside and out of it, it will die.

So your body very, very tightly regulates that. But again, that's where you can have sick damaged cells that just get out of control because of not having the good concentrations or what will happen is, you know, if you don't have good healthy, you know, minerals in your body, it's going to take them from the largest source that your body stores them and that's your bones, right? You know, so if you don't, if you're not, you know, if you're not consuming good healthy electrolytes in your, in your diet or in your water, then, you know, eventually, and again, takes, you know, takes 30, 40 years for you to get to a point of like actual diagnosable bone degeneration but um you know you you will get there if you do that

you know if you're constantly day in and day out not getting good healthy concentration of electrolytes so and especially if you're trying to be active and you're sweating that out um so yeah if you're um you're concerned about you know that the swelling if you get swelling or you're concerned about um just making sure that the water that you are consuming does end up getting to the cells because it doesn't get the water doesn't get into the cell it's it's no use to yeah it has to get into the from the stomach to the bloodstream to the cell um and if that water and electrolyte isn't getting there then again you're just going to end up filtering it out anyway and that's kind of and that's why we talk about the electrolytes more this time of year because if you're so again we're talking about like

medications that are diuretic that make you go to the bathroom more the water's going through you sometimes too quickly to absorb same thing if you know with the weather when you're sweating more the other way that we lose water. So even if you don't feel like you're sweating, you are, water is evaporating off of you when you walk out in this heat and this humidity. So that's the other reason. The electrolytes, again, keep it in your system long enough to actually get to the cells so that it's not going in and immediately going out. Because that's the thing, you know, I notice this time of year, it's, if I'm drinking water all day, I don't have the electrolytes in it. I still don't feel properly hydrated. It makes a big difference.

Yeah, one of the doctors in school, Dr. Ravi Kumar, he would say it all the times, water follows sodium. And so, you know, you can drink 30 gallons of water in day, but, you know, obviously you're not to be able to do that. Don't do. Don't do that. I know we're not, no, don't know what I tell you what to do, but don't do that. What I'm trying to say out of that is like, if there's nothing added to, especially in the heat of, you know, what we're going to have this week, like, it's, you know, there's more ways to optimize that and be beneficial. And that is with some of those proper electrolytes that you really do need. Well, in fact, doing too much water without the electrolytes, again, you're going to run into other issues. Yeah, it'll sit in between. It's called your interstitial space, right?

You get water between the cells, not in the cells. And that's when you can get swelling in the hands and the feet, the legs. And that's where you've heard of people who have actually died from that, from overconsumption of water. Because that was, that was some, that was even pre-Tik-Tock. That was some stupid challenge that was going around. a gallon, a gallon chugging or something. People were literally, like, literally, yeah, chugging these.

And, yeah, you're, yeah, just, yeah. So, yeah, literally drown themselves. Yeah, literally drown themselves. So, yeah, you don't want to, so you don't want to do that either, but, again, it's finding that, that proper balance. And again, it's either getting the electrolytes from the food or getting them added to the water,

but just making sure that you are, you know, if you're, if you're constantly peeing to the point that it's like, you drink glass of water and went right through you, well, then is that really, is that really hydrating you? And that's a good point because a lot of times if you take, you know, electrolytes, you know, you'll find that you won't urinate as much because your body will, um, will absorb it better. And then again, if you are active or it's hot outside, you might, you'll sweat more.

Okay. So if you're, if you're the type of person that doesn't sweat very, very well, that's actually a sign of dysfunction in your body. That's fantastic. Her shirt, she's showing me her shirt. I find your lack of sweat disturbing. Is that from like a Star Wars? It's a spin off of Star Wars?

I mean, I read that in the, I read that in the Darth Vader voice. I find that enough of sweat to disturb. Or maybe it is. I don't know. It really looks, yeah. I just thought it was hilarious because anyone who knows me knows. Yeah, but sweating is a very healthy. Again, we talk about, you know, body functions, you know, as there's,

as healthy, you know, healthy adaptations. And sweating is a very, very healthy function. If you go outside and you're the type of person that just has very clammy skin all the time, and it takes a while, yeah, you're clammy, but it takes a while for you to actually start sweating. That's actually a very dysfunctional sign of a body function. So, you know, if you, if you're drinking a lot of water with electrolytes, you'll actually find that you are sweating more efficiently so you will start sweating sooner, whether you're outside, you know, working out, or if it's just a hot day and you're just walking around and you start sweating.

That's what, like I always say, like, I, you know, people, my office team makes fun of me because or it grumbles because I keep the AC pretty cold in the, uh, in the summertime here, just because, you know, I start sweating. I haven't been complaining this week. Yeah. If it gets above like 72, 73 in the office, like I, you know, I, you know, you know, I, you know, know, I very quickly go from, all right, I feel comfortable to, oh, my God, I'm like sweating. So, yeah, that's how I'm at home. It's like, I keep, yeah, I'm on a third floor, so I can only battle the heat so much.

So I keep my AC set pretty high, like, it's like 76, 77 just to take the humidity off. But if I'm like, that's like, if I'm just sitting, but if I start cooking or cleaning, like anything where I'm moving around, I'm like, whewish, so immediately sweating. I'm like, oh, whatever. Yeah, but that's a, you know, again, that's a good, healthy sign of, you know, your body knows what to do and can move water quickly from one area to another. Again, like you mentioned before, if you're just drinking the water and it's going right through you, and it's very light or, you know, very white or clear, you know, then you're not necessarily absorbing that fluid and getting it to where it needs to go. So a better sign of healthy hydration is that, you know, you're getting good electrolytes in and that you're sweating very quickly, especially in a hot environment or activity. If you start noticing that, that's a good healthy sign versus, oh, shoot, I'm just peeing out crystal clear water. But if you go, if you take it too far and, you know, your urine starts getting dark yellow.

Yeah, if it's really dark yellow or, you know, orangish tone, you're definitely, you're way past dehydration. So you need to be getting better hydration in there. So yeah, there's definitely signs that you can be looking for. But yeah, how quickly you start sweating, you know, the color of your urine, that's all, you know, and the frequency of your urine, all very good indicators of, you know, how your hydration is. And that brings up one other important point I wanted to mention, which is. We need to wrap this up because I'm going to go. No, yeah, because I speak with you. No, I have my electrolytes.

No, so again, paying attention to. frequency of urination, but if you're drinking things that are artificially speeding that up, then you also need to pay attention to that. So caffeine. So, you know, again, we talk about, you know, this time of year, the iced coffee beverages, which is a whole other podcast that I could go into. But if you're doing a lot of caffeine, or the other, it's summer, summertime. What's the other thing we do a lot more up? Yeah. Hey, crack open a nice cold beer. So alcohol also speeds up. Yeah, it's, it dehydrates you. it speeds up urination, whether or not you believe in the break of the seal, it will make you

urinate more if you're drinking high amounts of alcohol. It will dehydrate you. So again, especially this time of year, it is so easy to become dehydrated. So between every alcoholic drink, make sure you were doing water. Yeah, at least a one-to-one ratio because, again, you will be peeing all day, but it's well worth it to not be, to not completely dehydrate yourself. Because especially in this heat, if you're doing, you know, if you're doing a lot of caffeine or a lot of alcohol and not replenishing that water, then you're going to be, oh, you're not going to be happy in the morning. Yeah. You can quickly go from feeling fine to like, oh, crap. Like, this is, you know, not just a painful situation, but it can be a dangerous situation.

Absolutely. Yeah. So, yes, absolutely, that one-to-one ratio. And again, you know, that's the advantage of going to the lake or the ocean. You don't have to use the bathroom. I use nature's bathroom, right? Just don't tell the people you're swimming. Yeah.

We're very open about it in our family. We're just like, you might want to stay over there. I'm trying to swim away from the boat, you know? But the kids follow you. I'm like, I'm trying to get away. Well, then they do it next to you. Like, come on, man. That reminds me of that Ron White.

Oh, of course I was in the good thing. It's like, we went down, we went down that creek or we went down that river. Eight hours and not one person had to pee. Everybody was just thinking on this. So, so he's like, so I finally had to go. And so, you know, but everyone got mad at me. Of course, I was in a canoe standing up. Yeah, so that's on that note.

On that note, hope you have a lovely, healthy, hydrated, summer and get your electrolytes, get your fluids that are non-caffeinated, non-alcoholic, but enjoy those two in a healthy, responsible way. Absolutely. All right. So I'm Dr. Dan. Dr. Riley. And Angela.

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