Guide to hydration

WHY ARE BODIES NEED WATER

Why Our Bodies Need Water?

The benefits of drinking water are many: It’s vital for almost every function in the body. Water acts as a building block, a solvent for chemical reactions, and a transport material for nutrients and waste.

Water also helps maintain blood volume and allows proper circulation, helps regulate our body temperature, and acts as a shock absorber for our joints and our brain. There are still more health benefits of water: It helps lubricate the linings of our inner organs and promotes healthy kidney function.

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Improve physical performance.

During physical activity, our bodies can loose up large amounts of water. So keep hydrated before, during, and after exercise helps to protect your body from dehydration, and to helping your muscles to perform better. Correct hydration can reduce fatigue, improve endurance, lower your maximum heart rate, and more.

Boost your brainpower.

When you drink more water, you may improve your cognitive performance, too.

Some studies have shown that people that drink more water during cognitive tasks performed much better than those people who did not drink water during the tasks.

Mild dehydration can impair your cognitive function in the short-term.

Protect against disease.

One of the most important answers to the question “Why is water important?� is its role in disease prevention.

Proper hydration may be a useful tool in preventing a variety of health conditions and diseases. Staying hydrated may protect against kidney stones, constipation, asthma, urinary tract infections.

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Help you to lose weight.

Increasing your water intake may help you achieve better results.

Studies show that people who are on diets lose more weight when they also increase their water intake.

Prevent headaches.

Water deprivation is a very common cause of headaches. Most of the time simply rehydrating can provide relief from a headache. For some people, dehydration can also trigger migraines.

How Much Water Should You Drink a Day? The amount of water you need to drink will depend on several factors, including your age, gender, activity level, and more. However, here’s a good general guideline when it comes to recommended daily water intake: Women should drink at least 2.21 liters per day and men should drink 3 liters per day, and increase your daily water intake as you increase your activity level.

Top tip from to help you keep track of your water intake is to measure your progress with water bottle placed in a spot you will see it throughout the day. Set goals for yourself at time points throughout the day to make sure you are drinking enough.

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