Drinking water and still dehydrated?
Dehydration happens when your body does no have as much water as it needs. Without enough of it, your body cannot function properly. Symptoms of dehydration may be:
- Feeling tired
- Heart palpitations
- Weakness
- Decreasing urine
- Muscle cramps
- Dry mouth
- Nausea
- Confusion
- Coma
The answer to get rid of this problem seems to increase drinking water. Some times drinking water is not the answer for keeping you well hydrated.
Dehydration could be a symptom of adrenal fatigue, along with sugar and salt cravings, difficulty sleeping and relaxing, general exhaustion .
Adrenals are two small glands that sit on the top of the kidneys, and along with your thyroid, create energy. They secrete hormones, that regulate water levels and concentration of minerals, like sodium in your bold, helping hydrated.
Dr. Leonard Smith renowned gastrointestinal, vascular and general surgeon gives advice on how to hydrate properly:
1. Drink half of the same amount in pounds of your body weight in ounces of water daily. Example: if your weight is 140 pounds, you need to drink 70 ounces of water every day
2. Sip water slowly, 2 to 3 ounces once at time
3. Drink as small amount of water as you can when you eat food. no more than 2 ounces. Water or liquids interfere with the digestion by diluting the gastric juices your body segregates to digest your food
4. Make your own flavored water instead of drinking soda (water with any fruit or lime and stevia)
5. Avoid coffee or alcohol. If you do, you need to drink more water
6. Keep your body alkaline (will talk about this subject later on). The bottom line is avoid sugar, processed food, animal protein and medicines
7. Use a good water filter, not the ones that remove the minerals
8. Drink mineral water. Mineral water is able to do so much good because it contains essential minerals such as iron, calcium and magnesium.
9. Drink Hydrogen water
Dr. Nicholas Perricone, board certified dermatologist, nutritionist, educator, scientist, inventor and healthy aging expert says:
"Hydrogen water hydrates skin better than moisturizers. Underlying dryness of the skin is always an inflammatory process. Hydrogen is a molecule that acts as an antioxidant anti-inflammatory. Hydrogen rapidly penetrates all layers of the skin and by turning off inflammation, the skin is able to hydrate much more rapidly than with hydration alone." For more information: www.perriconehydrogenwater.com
If you drink water and still have dehydration symptoms, you may experience adrenal fatigue. Drinking water is not the only answer. Start nourishing those adrenals to hydrate your body for longer and better life.
