• AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    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.

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    11 hours ago

    But, but, it’s 3am and I just drank 40 beers in Tijuana. It must be a water related issue.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    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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      11 hours ago

      This has always interested me, especially when I’ve read here and there that issues such as obesity is much more accurate as being a diet problem rather than an exercise problem. Not that the latter doesn’t help at all, certainly.

  • zerobot@lemmy.wtf
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    1 day ago

    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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    1 day ago

    See the trick is you gotta combine that with eating more fiber!

    Then your will piss more and you will poop better.

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      11 hours ago

      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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      1 day ago

      The quality of my poops after eating more fiber is probably one of the things im most proud of but cant tell anyone in normal life.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Me before drinking lots of water: depressed

    Me after drinking lots of water: depressed, but hydrated

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago
    • 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.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Instant gratification. Why have thing later? Want thing now. Give thing now. Why wait for later?

    • fishy@lemmy.today
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      1 day ago

      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.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Rothe@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      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.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Drinking more water is the most effective way to prevent and manage kidney stones by diluting urine and stopping mineral crystals from clumping together