H2O "buzz"???

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I wasn’t sure exactly where to put this post, so I’m placing it here, as it doesn’t seem significant enough for GQ. Pardon me, please, if this forum is not appropriate.

I have been drinking at least two quarts of refrigerated water nearly every day, for the past week or more. I drink said amount of water within 8-12 hours. This only proved to confirm my observation of past times when I drank large amounts of water…

It seems that when I drink a lot of water, I have a GREAT deal more energy, and my overall mood and productivity improves significantly. I initially thought it was a “placebo” effect, so to speak, but now I believe it to be an actual and physical reaction within the body.

What is happening when I get a water “buzz” and has this ever happened to anyone else here? :eek:

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It’s going to be simple, because once again I’m keeping up with aha in the Saturday night activities, but, yes, I drink lots of water and I feel a difference if I am, for whatever reason, deprived. I slam down a 12 oz. glass several times a day on weekends, and at work I favor the tap because the cooler water is too cold to take in the volume I desire.

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Depending on who you ask, we’re supposed to be drinking two to three liters of water each day (67-100 oz.). That means you’re still not drinking enough! (Your daily two quarts = 64 oz.) We also get water as a byproduct of metabolism, so you’re probably OK at two quarts, unless you do a lot of caffeine.

What that tells me is you have been running dry for way too long, and I would guess that since you’ve decided to start hydrating yourself properly, your body is operating much more efficiently now. You’re not experiencing a “buzz”, you’re just just not feeling run down from dehydration any more.

A dehydrated body isn’t happy. And it draws from other places to compensate for not having enough elsewhere. Water is taken mostly from inside your cells. Some is taken from outside the cells of your body, and 8% is taken from your blood volume. This causes your body to close some smaller vessels, called capillaries, and makes your blood thicker and harder to pump around your body. This has implications in hypertension, high cholesterol, and heart disease. Lack of water is also linked to, and currently being studied for, its role in headaches, arthritis, and heartburn.

A dehydrated state has clearly been linked to obesity. Without water your body cannot degrade a triglyceride (visualize lard) into usable forms for energy. Since a dehydrated state first pulls water from inside your body’s cells to compensate elsewhere, you have less water in your fat cells to liberate fat for energy, and so use less.

Water is also a natural appetite suppressant. When your stomach is full of anything it sends signals to the brain saying, “Woah there fellow, we’re full.” Overweight people need to drink more water than thinner people do. This is due to an increased metabolic load.

There is a lot more fat to be metabolized, and drinking enough water will make the kidneys’ job easier. In a dehydrated body the liver is forced to do some of the kidneys’ work and so can’t metabolize fat or cholesterol as efficiently. If you are trying to decrease the amount of fat on your body, you must drink water liberally, between two and three quarts a day.

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Yeah, but you expend a lot of that extra energy with all the additional pitstops.

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Some women on tv said if you drink a couple glasses of water at night youll be getting up to pee all night. I dont know about that.

Im interested in how salt effects the water in the body. People say it makes the body keep water & others say it makes it pee more to get the salt out.???

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From the man studying like a bitch for his medical boards:

Salt, in general, makes you not pee. Your body tries to maintain a constant concentration of electrolytes (mostly sodium) in your blood. Therefore, if you’ve been eating a lot of Bob’s Hypertension Chips with X-tra Sodium, you’re going to have more sodium running around in your bloodstream, and your kidneys are going to have to retain more water to dilute it. It will eventually correct, but the major effect in the short-term is an anti-diuresis.

Dr. J

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We should ALL be drinking eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day (total 64oz). It’s what our bodies need. That’s why you feel a lot better when your body is hydrated.

It’s not that hard to manage the 64oz, by the way. Have a glass with breakfast, two at lunch and two at dinner. That’s five glasses right there. Have one in the late morning, and one or two in the afternoon. Easy as pie. A lot of people around my office just keep a tall bottle of water at their desks, and stay hydrated that way.

As for needing to pee a lot, I have to tell you that the first week will have you running to the potty CONSTANTLY, until your body gets accustomed to being adequately hydrated. Just get past the first week (with easy access to the restroom) and you’ll settle in just fine.

– Baglady