Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Don't Need 8 Glasses of Water a Day
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Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Don't Need 8 Glasses of Water a Day
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The funny thing is, these drinks often contain hydrophilic substances that actually dehydrate you and make you thirsty for more.
"All about the money"
And so you buy more. When you buy more, they more money they get!
.... not entirely correct.
I suppose you mean "too many damn electrolytes" (it's what plants crave btw). = Not an isotonic solution = will dehydrate you
Wait you mean those drinks that make you more thirsty actually dehydrate you? I think I'll stick to water.
Tyler Tenebrae funny or planned?
Sometimes I'm not thirsty but when I drink water I realise I was thirsty...
@@independentquebec3500 yup yup yup my friend also said that
Same
you mean all the time right or am i abnormal
That doctor looks like she has never had a glass of water
Santiago Garcia Carrasco I don’t think water is one of those drinks.
Soon to be taken down by Gatorade due to "copyright infringement"
I don't know if they are registered as a "news source" or not. But if they are a news source, they can show all the trademarked goods and who evers face they want without their consent.
The thing is, anyone who owns trademarks can pretty much take things down as they please, or at least demonitize them. Sure, the TH-camrs are often completely innocent under fair use laws, but TH-cam doesn't really care.
umm 1 year later the video is still up. :D
That is not how it works. This video doesn't even come close to violating fair use.
As I said before, doesn't matter. Look at Auralnauts, for example. Though it's Fair Use, their videos get taken down/demonetized often.
My football coach actually tells us to just drink when we are thirsty and to not drink that much because we will get cramps because of drinking too much.
he's wrong about the cramps
@@CourtyardPigeon He's only wrong about the cramps as long as he's not giving them white wine to hydrate xD
my track and field coach told us the same thing except the cramps part 😅
Nah, too much intake of hydrating fluids is wasting time that the coach could have you working in full pads in 100 degree heat. There’s only so many hours of sunlight to get that practice in.
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I'm sorry, but having worked in the medical field (a Corpsman of Marines), the only way to *GET* hyponatremia is to NOT eat for at least a couple meals and then flood your body full of water.
Let's be clear on what really happens: Hyponatremia is when you flush all the nutrients out of your system, and the only way to do that is to *skip meals* AND over-hydrate.
Yes, this is exacerbated while working out or going through high endurance exercises like an all-day force-march with full gear (through a triple-canopy jungle), but you would have to avoid eating in order to get hit with hyponatremia - this is why MREs are loaded with calories. In fact, from my experience, you're more likely to get heat syncope or heat cramps (in that order) than hyponatremia.
In the case of the marathon runners, they didn't get Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia from just over-hydrating; they found that these runners refused to eat a proper meal (breakfast) and THEN over-hydrated WHILE pushing their limits.
Yeah exactly. I was actually just going to post something similar when i saw this.
"just drink when youre thirsty" okay tell that to all the guys that go down as a heat cas on a btn hike who waited till they were thirsty to drink
Were you in the navy because the marine corps has no medical field.
Lol you dont have to be a corpsman to know the effects of dehydration and what causes it
Im assuming he was a greendide corpsman too cause the navy dont go on a lot of hikes
Well, I *did* say "Corpsman of Marines."
So Sean O'Brien would be correct, I was a Greenside Corpsman.
Next on this show: Adam ruins breathing
Mohammed Faizan lol
*hyperventilating
Daemon Blackfyre Turns out you don't need to. As a matter of fact I haven't done it all da..........
woolgatherer You got me there.
Daemon Blackfyre
lmfao!!!!!
I've noticed that drinking water when I wake up helps me wake up and realize I'm thirsty, not tired. This is a symptom of my chronic fatigue. Anyone who is too sedentary or has fatigue issues can experience thirst and hunger as tiredness. But it only takes like 1 or 2 ounces of water to trigger that feeling or reawaken it again. I take one sip and I feel it. 8 ounces right away in the morning? I'd get sick.
I agree with most of this but as a kid that would often forget to drink until I was very dehydrated and throwing up I think kids do need to be reminded to drink water especially on hot days.
"They actually gained weight by drinking water."
Yeah, don't we all? Anything we put in our bodies is going to cause temporary weight gain
That's exactly his point. They drank more than they had lost through sweating
@2v_5r George Harrison is dead
@@86fernandes86 well thats why you should use your body but id get it when youre too busy but damn it feels good sweating alot
And mostly peeing
@@jeremy-ws1rb That sentence made no sense
"We also found the cure for cancer!"
"Is it Gatoraide?"
"No."
"GET BACK TO ME WHEN IT'S GATORAIDE!"
@yuri_ sadhecc Oh snap.. you invalidated your own comment.
It’s got what plants crave
@@MsZsc You mean electrolytes?
@@MsZsc: When Markiplier played Job Simulator was pretty funny.
Nice one Adam, but you should mention that fluid consumption can differ greatly between climates. Ever tried to exersice during the scorching Greek summer sun? You'll need WAY more than 8 glasses of water, that's for certain.
But here's the thing - if so, you'll feel thirsty.
The body's REALLY good at knowing how much you should drink.
@@johnathanhughes9881 not necessarily. Many people don’t realize their thirsty until they start drinking water. I didn’t drink water for an entire day because I just wasn’t thirsty. Furthermore, there are also benefits to energy levels and physical/mental performance for staying hydrated.
@@ckr3167 Then you probably have a medical condition and need to talk to your doctor.
If you arent recognizing when you are thirsty, that is NOT normal. Being thirsty is an extremely basic instinct that is vital to survival, its not something that can be so easily ignored unless you have some issue going on.
“ *Drowning* us in ads like these ”
I see what you did there.
Wow, Adam actually gives legitimate advise. I only drink when I'm thirsty too. I thought 8 glasses a day was excessive.
I disagree with most of the video but the one thing he is correct about in this video is that you do not need 8 glasses of water to stay hydrated. The only people that need 8 glasses of water are athletes that exercise all day.
I can only speak for my own personal experience, but thirst for me has been a bit of a lagging indicator. If I'm doing a physical activity for a prolonged period of time (~1 hr), and I don't drink until I'm thirsty, I almost always end up with a headache. Pre-hydrating is useful to avoid those headaches. Plus, if you simply just don't have the opportunity to stop what you're doing and grab a drink of water, then you're just screwed. Pre-hydrating, to me, is a practical preventive measure, just like using the bathroom before a long road trip even if you don't have urgency to pee. You know it's going to happen at some point, so get it (drinking or urinating) out of the way before all of the sudden you absolutely have to.
Are you sure that isnt just placebo?
You could be thinking you'll get a headache because you arent drinking water, and because you expect to, you do, and when you do drink water, you dont expect to, so you dont.
Placebos like this exist all the time as a result of bogus science. People believe a thing, which causes a placebo effect, which causes them to believe it more and spread it, causing more placebos, etc. But in reality there is no actual connection, its just placebo.
And yes, Placebo is a real thing with very real effects. Thinking you will be sick can actually cause you to display some symptoms of being sick. Headaches are one such example.
@@eragon78 I'm pretty sure it's not a placebo. I just checked, but apparently dehydration headaches are fairly well-documented online. Your brain contracts from fluid loss.
@@mrmacross That is true yea, im not saying headaches dont happen from lack of hydration.
But that doesnt mean what you're feeling isnt placebo.
Again, if you EXPECT to be dehydrated, and you EXPECT that will give you a headache, then you very easily can form a headache even if you arent dehydrated. Even if headaches are common with real dehydration, you can still induce them without dehydration if you expect to have one. That is the placebo. (or rather in this case, a Nocebo, but its the same effect, just for negative conditions)
Of course, it could be real dehydration as well, im definitely not saying it isnt. Im just saying that this is why you cant really trust your own individual experiences or the individual experiences of others. I mean they almost definitely had those symptoms, but to say the CAUSE was definitely dehydration is something you cant know without a proper study.
This is why we have to trust science and do actual controlled studies to determine how likely dehydration is, how dangerous it is, what causes it, how good thirst is at fighting it off, etc. Trusting your own personal account is rife with potential numerous conflicting variables.
Like who knows if the headaches were a nocebo, caused by lack of water, or caused by some completely other mechanism? Lack of proper sleep and eating can also cause that stuff. And if you think its the water, then the placebo can actually kick in to help prevent headcahes from other effects if you think thats what is causing it and that drinking water helps.
the truth is, its hard to say exactly what is causing your headaches. It very likely could be dehydration, but it also very possibly isnt.
I mean that said, if drinking water helps you not have them, then continue doing so. My point is that a singular personal account isnt going to really have more sway than a controlled study. There are just too many conflicting variables to account for in a personal account of something.
@@eragon78 which is why the first thing I mentioned 6 years ago was that "I can only speak for my personal experience."
@@mrmacross I mean fair, but my point was that its not really reliable. Everyone speaks from their own personal experience when they think drinking water helps them, but relying on personal experience is quite often a bad thing to do when it comes to medical or nutritional advice. People's own perceptions are very very often flawed.
You are right. I will however say that heat is a bigger factor for anyone playing outdoor sports to hydrate. They should drink water before they practice, throughout the day rather than while actually practicing.
Phoenix Fire boi the mortal of this video is to drink when your thirsty
Yeah, for most people. If you do outdoor sports though, you get thirsty during practice, and you can't just take individual breaks during practice, the only way a coach can keep practice organized and give people water when they need it is to have water breaks, and as the video said, drinking water during practice isn't all that good for you. That is why coaches should encourage players to drink water throughout the day, even if they are not thirsty. Of course they should also tell them not to drink too much, but a slight increase in water consumption throughout days when you have outdoor practice is healthy.
Phoenix Fire not my soccor coach we have water breaks when we do a lot of work Im always thirsty when we have water breaks we only have 2 water breaks
You should also drink water during practice and during games. What Adam fails to mention is that water helps cool you down. If you play a sport in the summer, especially in the South, then you would know how easy it is to suffer from heat exhaustion or a heat stroke.
Honestly, this is one of the dumbest videos of Adam Ruins Everything.
howard baxter sorry the delta in temperature between your body and the specific heat capacity of your body and water plus your mass Vs the mass of water ingested means that over all you temperature of your body is only cooled by about 0.10-0.20°c if the water is ice cold and the mass of the person is between 50-100kg and accounting for a range in the amount consumed
Don't get me wrong it's refreshing but it doesn't really cool you down
Sweating is much more effective
The women who drank 2 gallons of water too fast to win a Wii for her kids, suffered massive brain damage.
She had something legitimately wrong with her body, though. Her body couldn't produce hormones that give her the urge to go to the bathroom, which caused too much water to be in her blood.
Did she win?
And died.
It's not worth it over a stupid Wii!
That's because you aren't meant to drink your daily water all at once. Doesn't mean you shouldn't drink it throughout an entire day. Your kidneys can't handle more than 1 liter per hour. If you overload it, you can die. She overloaded.
But it has electolytes
electrolytes is salt.. body runs on it moron.
u spell awesome
+ka7wyf But electrolytes... (Idiocracy ref in case you think i am crazy)
its what plants crave
the thirst mutilator!
Dehydration is a serious issue. It's just that you don't get dehydrated as much as the beverage companies claims.
"and she wins by a belly" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can't not with this show
It's true that the chance of you dying from dehydration is extremely low, but there are the issues of kidney stones (especially in men) which is the result of our over consumption of salty foods in the last few decades, and can be mitigated with drinking water, even when you don't feel so thirsty.
Secondly, lack of drinking can result in tiredness and headaches even without getting seriously dehydrated.
Last but not least, when over sweating in sport, drinking just water is actually dangerous, because you need to add alkalines to your body to prevent lack of balance in your cells. This is when actually drinking gator aid and similar products is effective.
So while I appreciate the stick it to the man kind of attitude against the big beverages industry, this video can be highly misleading.
I agree
I was looking for a comment like this! While the information in the video is technically true, it’s not comprehensive and there are plenty of other factors that you have to consider. Also, some of the information in the video is presented in a misleading way (12 athletes have died from hyponatremia!!!!!! but no mention of how many have died from dehydration. hint: it’s more than 12)
Okay “Aric ruins everything”
Yeah this video is misleading. Over hydration is absolutely a danger. And while sports drinks are meant to mitigate that with their dose of electrolytes, over hydration can even occur when drinking too much Gatorade.
However, I’d wager that the number of people under-hydrating FAR exceeds those over-hydrating. Climate, activity level, and kidney health can all increase your optimal water intake, and thirst is not a perfectly accurate, immediate indicator of that optimal amount.
It's not salt the issue.
when i was a kid my mom told me that radio shows used to host contests where whoever drank the most water would win but they had to stop because people were dying from it :/
"Thats crazy. You're crazy person. Who are you?" Thats my new catchphrase
Ironically that Asian researcher lady looks very dry and dehydrated.
noticed that too
ever heard of ageing?
Hope Patterson Nah, she's obviously an elder lady, I don't doubt that. I merely wanted to point out the irony
Hope Patterson aging goes more smoothly(pun intended)if you drink water :)
+xonxt she could be sick or just naturally skinny. You are the typical ppl, that this video is made for. Skinny don't mean dehydrated! UGH. Stupid.
I notice a significant difference in my recovery time during wind sprints when I have drank plenty of water throughout the day. Up to a gallon before exercising
As someone who is also in the field of Exercise Science, they completely missed the mark with this one. I was cringing the whole time, especially at that lady. This is Me ruining this episode: Thirst actually isn't that sensitive, and if you really only drink when you're thirsty it can cause some major issues over time. It's true, you shouldn't really be afraid of "dying" or "cramps" from not drinking enough while exercising, but staying well hydrated prevents lactate buildup (which can make you feel more sore and prematurely fatigued), increases cardiac stroke volume, VO2 max, and overall improves athletic performance Dramatically, which is what coaches want. Overhydrating is real but problems that occur from it are rare, under extreme conditions, and shouldn't scare you from drinking enough water. If you're not super active, you might not notice much of a difference in dehydration, but a well trained athlete should. TIP: If you weigh yourself at the beginning and at the end of a workout, if you lost more than 2% of your starting body weight in water by the end, you're dehydrated and performance may start to decrease. If you weigh more, you drank too much. TIP 2: Instead of 8 glasses a day, try taking your body weight in lbs, and drinking half that much in oz. So a 120 lbs person should aim to drink 60 oz per day. And as far as sports drinks go, you don't need to replenish anything more than water unless you're vigorously working out for between 1.5-3 hours straight. So the average person has no need of sports drinks (unless your workout falls between the time above). Electrolyte is just a fancy word for essentially salt and carbs. Electrolytes are literally in every food ever, so don't be fooled by that marketing either. Lastly, there has been extensive research on the physiological effects of dehydration, so drinking water frequently, particularly in sports, is not a baseless claim. The End.
nah adam is right
How are you qualified exactly? And where did u get your "tip 2" calculation for hydration?
source : "trust me bro"
isaac yanez worst source yet
_"Overhydrating is real but problems that occur from it are rare, under extreme conditions, and shouldn't scare you from drinking enough water."_
Just as Adam said in the video.
I rarely get thirsty so I rarely drink anything other than my 2-3 coffees a day. I am almost always being told I’m dehydrated by the doctor.
Coffee actually dehydrates your more too. It's good to drink an equal amount of water after the coffee.
It's the coffee lol
I remember being told by a school nurse that if you feel thirsty you are already dehydrated and you should drink even when you are not thirsty.
I fully believe this too. Water is a preventative tool, not a pill to take once you are sick.
@@HealthHorror what? How does that make any sense?
The whole mechanism to get animals to drink in the wild is thirst. Why would an animal want to drink if it wasnt thirsty.
If you ONLY felt thirsty when you were dehydrated, then your body would be absolutely terrible at keeping itself functioning. Your body tells you to drink once it detects its water levels dropping and needs some more, but you are FAR from any serious danger when you just start feeling thirsty.
It is ONLY an issue if you ignore your thirst. If you go hours without drinking while you are thirsty, then you may become dehydrated.
But the idea that you are dehydrated as soon as you are thirsty is just utter nonsense. Just like you dont get hungry when you're starting to death. You get hungry long before then.
@@eragon78 You're forgetting one KEY component. Animals don't consume acid from sugar, soda, coffee, tea, gatorade, booze etc all day. This crap has to be washed out of the human blood because it causes even deeper dehydration and eventually sparks disease. You can't compare us to animals on every topic because we are dumber than animals in many areas and are self-destructive by nature.
@@eragon78 Also, my old boss went to the beach once and was drinking cocktails mostly. She felt fine and swore she was hydrated. Then boom, her body started attacking her and she went to the ER. They told her she was extremely dehydrated. So you really need to rethink your theory.
@@HealthHorror And yea, the issue there is your boss was drinking a ton of alcohol. That is one of the few exceptions when it comes to hydrating properly from liquids.
2:07 the magazine is called "PEE WEEKLY"
Why is that darned book telling me what to do?
Should have called it peekly
Yeah. If you pee more than once a week, you are sick and are desperately in need of medical attention
"I'd never make it all the way around"
Definitely me.
2:30 he really did skip over the fact the Gatorade article was warning people about overhydration
what about for vocals? Singers are always told to hydrate or the chords can get damaged.
Adam Ruins Everything is often incredibly inaccurate. Take it all with a grain of salt.
Kyle Mills Yes, that's why they include their sources. Where are yours?
1) A source doesn't necessitate accuracy of a claim. It represents objective data that is then used to construct evidence in a case for or against a subjective claim.
2) My claim did not deny that Adam Ruins Everything uses sources; it criticized the validity of their conclusions (even based on the sources).
3) Where are my sources for what? Multiple Adam Ruins Everything episodes? That's beyond the scope of this argument; I'm not going to write you an essay debunking multiple episodes using numerous sources. That would be a lot of work just to satisfy your conflict about my off the cuff youtube comment.
If you're sincerely interested, start fact checking the show's claims against other sources yourself. Start with the original commenter's topic: water and singers.
Well of course. But Saliva does fine at moisturizing vocal cords. Saliva is created with very small amounts of water.
Laura Glynn I've never heard that and my father is a vocal instructor.
Ok but what about if you struggle to recognize thirst signals? 8 glasses a day as the "ideal" is the only thing that gets me even close to escaping dehydration
Then you probably have a medical problem and need to consult a doctor. Not being able to recognize thirst is not a normal thing in the slightest. Its literally one of the most basic instincts any animal has.
@@eragon78 i have sensory processing disorder. Par for the course.
@@TheLeopardBrightsky Yea, in that case then, you are an exception.
But for people who dont have that issue then using thirst to detect when you need water should be perfectly suitable.
But yea, thats my point. Anyone who has trouble recognizing thirst properly almost definitely has a medical condition such as yourself. Its not normal to not be able to recognize when you are thirsty and need water.
I drink early and often..but it's not Gatorade.
I only drank when I was thirsty and ended up in a hospital with a kidney stone. Doctor says I need 2 litres per day.
oh yeah.... but WHAT where you drinking?
Jellyfish60 you also only breathed when you needed to then you got kidney stones. The fact you did X thing and you had result Y doesn't mean X caused Y.
The reason for drinking a lot with the treatment of stones is the help "flush" it out. And I hope you're feeling better now
He meant drink 2 litres a day when you were undergoing treatment. Additionally, dehydration is not a cause of kidney stones.
your overall diet caused kidney stones, not lack of water
Kidney stones can be caused by dehydration.. Stop spreading misinformation
www.h4hinitiative.com/hydration-science/hydration-lab/water-intake-and-kidney-stones/dehydration
www.webmd.com/kidney-stones/tc/kidney-stones-what-increases-your-risk
And he has a point, some might not get thirsty even though they should drink more, others might not notice that their thirsty etc
The only time I really need water is when I wake up and feel like a walking corpse
Well I saw this video and started drinking when thirsty and ended up on the hospital with urinary infection, and the doctor said I was drinking waay to little water
1:10
Why does that smile always get me 😂😂
Been suffering from digestive issues and weak bowel, when I started drinking alot of water, I started going to bathroom more often, I would sometimes go 3 or 4 days without going to the bathroom, I would also get alot of abdominal pain, now that I drink alot of water I go 2 or 1 times a day to the bathroom.
I was directed to this video by a friend after he told me that the '8 glasses of water rule' was not true.
Firstly, after reading some of the comments it seems as though some specific details were left out in the video, which I can imagine the producers actually doing in order to suit the "facts" to their argument. Secondly, the reason I aim to drink 8 glasses a water a day is to keep myself hydrated. I feel as though Adam has exaggerated the fact that people are scared for their lives if they don't drink enough. When I used to only have a couple of glasses water per day, I ended up with red blotches on my face and my piss was a disgusting yellow colour. Now, I aim to drink 8 glasses of water per day and my skin has cleared as well as my piss. It's up to you to decide whether that's a coincidence or not. The issue with the idea of "only drink when you're thirsty" is letting yourself become thirsty to begin with. What if you don't have access to a drink straight away? Don't wait until you get thirsty and moan because you have a headache. Surely being thirsty is a sign that you don't have enough water in your system? The only time this becomes dangerous is if you wait too long before you go to the toilet. I always go to the toilet before a lesson or at the very start just in case. Finally, I believe the bit about the company selling their products is a bit irrelevant. People don't buy their drinks to stay hydrated, but buy them because they like them. When people go to the gym, they don't buy 8 bottles of Lucozade Sport, they buy one bottle and may fill it up at the water fountain after. I am not an expert in medical science, this argument was created merely by common sense and the fact that I want my body to be as healthy as possible.
Everything you said was anecdotal, not backed by any fact whatsoever. And you initial comment of saying they left out facts isn’t credible unless you mention what they did not say.
0:49 you can see the kid pouring water on his crouch lol.
the problem for me is I'm never thirsty
Thank you. As I have been battling overactive bladder for years, with little results. This confirms my suspicions. And I have wasted money I cannot afford with therapists.
But i feel depressed when i dont drink alot i think its ok to drink alot as long as youre using your body also i feel good when i sweat alot
1:10 is the best face I've seen in a while
I have water poisoning and now I have to a bunch eat a bunch of iron so you’re right Adam
As an adult I’ve gotten into the habit to have a water, a coffee, or both on me at all times.
I actually did get really dehydrated once while sailing in Florida all day as a kid. I was super hot and the Gatorade I had didn’t seem appealing. I don’t drink Gatorade anymore (warm, sugary salt water it turns out isn’t appealing when you’re exercising out on the warm saltwater all day!)
I have asthma and ADHD so drinking often is important for me because 1) I’m really good at accidentally ignoring hunger and thirst and 2) dry air can really trigger my asthma and water helps with that and 3) drinking gives me something to do with my hands so I can focus better (and if it’s coffee it has caffeine which helps my adhd).
Also, for those who didn’t know: Caffeine is NOT a good diuretic. This “fact” was peddled after a bad study of only a few people in the early 1900s.
And combo medicines like Midol that have it are bull (Midol is literally just Tylenol with two placebo effect ingredients that don’t actually do what they say they do).
Also, ibuprofen (Advil), and naproxen (Aleve) are better at relieving menstrual pain than Tylenol (myhealth.alberta.ca/Health/aftercareinformation/pages/conditions.aspx?hwid=uf7084#abt5046)
"We also may have found the cure for cancer."
"Was it Gatorade™?"
"No."
"Damnit, get back to me when it's Gatorade™."
I'm Canadian, and every time I come to the us everyone screams at me to drink because if i'm thirsty i'm dehydrated
This video is factual and misleading.
Yes, 8 glasses of water a day is a myth. On the other hand, heat stroke is a real thing. Just because Gatorade wants to overhydrate you doesn't mean you shouldn't drink plenty of water when working out, and it's very possible to fail to recognize that you are not hydrated enough. Ask Korey Stringer. He was not in "extreme sickness or isolation"
A study in 2015 found 14 overhydration deaths total since 1981, less than one per year. Between 2011 and 2014, 13 athletes died from heat stroke in football practices, greater than 3 per year in just the sport of American football.
Adam was just saying that she was overdoing it and should just give them free access to water.
Yeah, now he is gonna tell us that Heat Stroke is a non-issue. People die of it here in Texas.
So based on that data, neither over nor under hydration is a threat. So drink when thirsty
And, on average, the human body can survive 3 days without drinking. Three days to realized you're dehydrated, and believe me, you'll know you're dehydrated.
4:18 "all that extra fluid has no where to go" Gosh I wish my body had another way of getting rid of excess water. It'd be nice if it even did something useful like keep me from over heating. Gosh, I wish sweating was a thing
It is a good thing also crying helps
Square cube law? Same idea, more volume than surface area
The textbook in my food and nutrition class said to drink 8 glasses of water a day! Why do they teach us these lies? My dad said his textbook in his psychiatry class incorrectly defined "negative reinforcement". (It doesn't mean punishing, even though it seems like it would. It actually means reinforcing a behaviour by removing a punishment.) The french-to-english dictionary in my class misspelt at least two words, and they were words in english. It said tutle and woolf instead of turtle and wolf. They should really fact-check textbooks.
Dehydration does suck tho so drink water when necessary
Starvation does suck tho so eat food when necessary
Prostate cancer does suck tho so fap when necessary
Dr.Tamara hew-butler's earrings omg hahahahahahaha how appropriate
yea try telling us this when you work outside and have 2 consecutive weeks of triple digit heat
As a Goddamn alcoholic, I need 8 glasses of water. Some days I only get 6 and I am so scared on those days.
I was always surprised how people in US and in American films said “You need to hydrate”. Because even in sports schools in Russia they will be like: “Drink when you like people”. No one saying drinking enough water is not important, it is not stressed as such. Just... drink?
Honestly. I dont know how people somehow cant figure out one of the most basic instincts humans have. Its like forgetting that you need to breath or something stupid like that.
So, the "8 glasses of water a day" thing did come from a study... but that study INCLUDED water in foods. So, unless you're fasting, you're already getting a large chunk of water without drinking a single glass.
I'm still drinking 10 glasses a day because I like myself some water. This is some good knowledge though.
I wonder if Adam uses this as a training video now for picketers going out in 100+ degree weather.
I personally disagree. I get massive headaches, and have no energy when I don't have enough water.
And yes, I work out/stretch and eat fairly well with the random ice cream once every so often. And I only drink water. No juice, milk, anything
When I'm sitting down and chilling I make sure I have a bottle of lemon water (the water at my apartment doesn't taste very good) and soda so I can grab something to drink as I need it. I certainly don't stress about how much I drink.
Meat and Dairy association have been doing it longer
"Adam goes vegan" *too radical might as well pick on water* lol
More lies from the corporations. The cancer is spreading-in the mind.
Why I’ve seen this video yesterday and now it was recommended to me as published 2 hours ago? wtf
You should sue TH-cam for €3,450,000,000 and petition they shut the whole site if they don't change their recommendations algorithm.
Hm, that seems fair now that you mentioned it...
Low calorie water. Lol
soon there will be low calorie oxygen. ;)
what are you talking about, oxygen is where we get almost all our energy ;) there will never be callorie free oxygen
***** Oh yea, tho, pxygen being callorie-ful is actually good, or else we would never burn that fat. i guess its a preference then of whether or not to be fat but never die or slim but have limited lifespan
***** oxygen is needed to metabolise food. this metabolisation releases energy(callories) which we use for all sorts of actions. oxygen is as important to getting energy as food, therefore it sorta has callories
Gytis not technically true, but really interesting philosophy it makes sense.
I goddamn knew it wasn't natural to have to pee A LOT literally every hour on the hour after going for a run.
Eh, I only drink when I'm thirsty and that ends up being maybe 2-3 cups a day. While I'm not dying, I've woken up more than a fair amount of times in the middle of the night/early morning and nearly fainted in an attempt to make it to the fridge for something to drink- god forbid I have to use the bathroom first or I'm guaranteed to spend ten minutes on the floor being nauseated and overheated waiting for my ears to stop ringing. Believe from experience that it's prolly safer to advocate for everyone to drink a little more often than what they feel is necessary than to give the OK to only do so when you feel the need. It's not exactly an easily learned habit later in life..
Why don’t you just sleep with a bottle of water next to you?
That’s what I do because even though I hydrate during the day I still get thirsty at night.
Well i saw a lot of gym goers who developed rhabdomyelysis in other words elevated blood levels of muscle enzyme CPK which can damage the kidneys and which can be prevented by drinking more water
Not sure I entirely agree with "drink when you're thirsty". I don't know if it's just me but sometimes it's not obvious when your body needs fluids, at least until you go pee.
I've actually heard from somewhere that the average adult typically needs about 2 L of water per day; the 8x8 rule is just something easy to remember.... Anyway, here's a good recommendation instead of hearing it from Adam Ruins Everything:
www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/water/art-20044256
But the Hydration 101 article warns about over-hydration and hyponatremia
What if I just like the taste of water and it makes me feel good to drink a lot of water in a day
Dehydration can be a key indicator in mental health disorders in some instances. It shows an "I can't be bothered" attitude.
Dehydration is not a rare problem - just go to the emergency department or general medical wards especially in summer
Anyone who has ever done 2 a days for football or worked construction in 100 degree heat will know that there are times when you simply cannot drink enough water.
I do think preemptive hydration or drinking with certain regularity regardless of thirst helps. I can't speak for everyone, but there are times I've completely lost touch with my sensation of thirst, partly due to the overwhelming options of non-hydrating drinks available to us. I've gone days without drinking any water because the sensation just became normal and I wouldn't notice until I had a dry throat or headaches. So now I just make sure I have a cup in the morning and before bed at the bare minimum.
You dont need to drink specifically water to hydrate. If you are drinking pretty much any liquid, you are hydrating. Unless you're drinking like straight up salt water.
By the time you’re thirsty, you’re already slightly dehydrated. Not only that, but there are studies showing that thirst isn’t always directly related to how much water you should drink to be properly hydrated. Drinking water prior to exercise allows you to start from a properly hydrated state, and drinking throughout regularly can help maintain performance. If you become dehydrated, it can take anywhere from 5 to 45 minutes to reach normal fluid levels again which leads to a decrease in performance in sports and discomfort. Obviously drink water in moderation but I feel like this is such a clinical look at dehydration divorced from practicality researched by someone who self-admittedly doesn’t exercise.
Yes, the risk of death by dehydration in modern society is overblown, which I suppose is the point of the video. However, everything else he’s saying is unrelated. He starts talking about sports drink ads, running magazines, and sports science research recommending drinking often being biased but they’re talking about two different things. Adam is talking about literally being hydrated enough to not die, while the sports recommendations are about comfort and performance.
That scientist was very unscientific
"millions of years"
what should she of said? it's drinking water and sport drink rip offs... u were very unspecific moron butt plug.
Oz Boz Found the troll.
XandWacky Go search for the realities of your perceptions , search about the factual `FACTS` that you know from science .You are being TROLLED here , not by me oh no !
Oz Boz I can see someone grew up in the rural south
Can't find the sources. Link just goes to the main site.
3:12 I've always wondered what song that's from, does anybody know?
I drink about 5 liters a day and my only issue is that i pee to often. My skin is really nice though and i dont use creams.
As someone who has personally seen many people subject to dehydration, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. I would say that this video is not entirely correct.
Obviously they don't drink when they're thirsty then. Adam is still correct.
0IIIIII Incorrect, they do. The problem being they are under heavy physical demand and that requires increased hydration since your body uses the water to cool you. Think of it like antifreeze for your car. Water goes in and is used to reduce the temperature of your body. In the heat and while under physical stress, you need more water to efficiently cool yourself. Otherwise you will start to have symptoms of Heat exhaustion. Your ability to resist heat exhaustion is also heavily dependant on your fitness level so less fit people with feel it much sooner therefore either needing more water or more breaks.
KäseKartoffel This show has a dedicated team of researchers and writers, there is a high level of professionalism and quality control. It's unlikely that they are wrong, it's more likely that you are wrong and are neglecting to consider important details.
0IIIIII I have personal experience, and I am also heavily inclined to believe that the "research team" spends it's time browsing a few articles and condensing them into a TV show for the purpose of entertainment. I doubt they actually care if anything they say is wrong because in most cases people will just believe what they say. The time and effort it would take to actually do heavy research in a topic would dig too far into the profit margin and that's not worth the effort considering the sate of health research and practice changes so often and significantly.
KäseKartoffel ok maybe you are right
In my country it's a conception that PROHIBITS you from drinking while exercising (because you will feel cramps). You can drink electrolytes - but not water and not too much
When I'm thirsty, I drink a 32 oz bottle of Gatorade in 32 seconds
A football player reportedly drank 2 gallons of water and 2 gallons of a sports drink and died. You'll be fine with a few cups a day. And as other people have pointed out in the comments you might not realize you're thirsty. Staying hydrated is good for you.
Well Adam you may not need that much water but you should try working out sometime
Band camp, in Texas, in August. Some kids needed to be told when to have a water break or they wouldn't stop practice. Gatorade was banned though. Water was the only thing you could drink and its not going nowhere. You're going to sweat out a good portion of it.
Adam ruins water
Well Gatorade was developed at the University of Florida and was proven in game to prevent Fatigue in Athletes and was later bought by Pepsi and turned into the Beverage of Athletes years later. All Gatorade does is prevent electrolyte depletion that accrues from heavy sweating and over urination due to over hydration.
1:21 "That's how Humans have done it for *millions* of years and it's worked out fine."
She must not be a very good scientist..
i want to thank adam ruins everything for this bit, it legitimately changed my life. i always had a lot of anxiety surrounding my lack of hydration, with all my friends drinking 64 oz of water a day carrying around their hydroflask and stuff. and i always felt like i had to be forced to drink more than i wanted.
hearing the professor in the video say to drink water when your thirsty was legitimately helped me. thank you adam ruins everything!
most of these videos I agree with however this one I just can't based on my recent personal experience. for the most part I'd say drinking when you are thursty is fine but in some cooler weather conditions the body can be tricked, this happened to me one cold day, I was feeling fine then a slight dizziness hit an next thing, I was found unconscious mind you i have no prior medical issues an being in my mid 20s in good shape. the doctors ran several tests an found nothing other then I was severely dehydrated to th point that more then one nurse with a device called a vain finder still had difficulty finding my vain an after having intravenous fluids I still was in an out of consciousness an have little to no recollection of the events that day an have to go on what I was told. I'm not trying to start any kind of debate with anyone I do not claim to be an expert by any means I simply thought I'd share my experience to help others. I still have days where there is no feeling of thurst but there is the dizziness in I have know I need water befor long. my message to you all don't just wait till you thursty weather it's hot or cold insid or out always drink plentry of water!
That's a bummer. Never had winter in Malaysia but that's a real bummer.
As a varsity football player in Texas I can testify that dehydration is an issue that does happen and has affected most of my team mates during summer training when it's a sweltering 105 degrees. But it's so easy to prevent that it's hardly a major issue. Just drink when you're thirsty. (unless coach tells you no or there's no water in the vicinity... Then you're SOL)
Wouldn't that be more heatstroke
+MrTHEMONEEMAKER yes. It's a combination really. Profuse sweating & high temperatures without drinking water = dizziness, Nausea, blurred vision ect..
if your coach won't let you take water with you at 105 degrees outside, he/she needs to be fired
+Nick Tann that happens often with water in the equation. your talking about symptoms of a heat stroke.
That Scientist should get some Hyponatremia belly
You're an ass, guy
Am I the only one who noticed the science lady's jumpsuit is Robbie Rotten's pants?
The more water I drink the more I feel sick so I knew that was bs straight away when I first saw those ads
***** something is wrong with you then, maybe you drink right after eating
I could literally go and get some water and drink it and id just feel so sick and i havent eaten for like an hour must be uk water....
Lucky Shot Films Probably UK water.Just look at your teeth lol !
Oh cmon no sterotypes my teeth are white and straight af
UK teeth are actually really healthy in general, they just don't look perfect. US teeth are like a hollywood veneer, all style and no substance. Plus statistically more USians have fewer than people from the UK. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12054216/Americans-do-not-have-better-teeth-than-the-British-study-concludes.html
I like how he sites sources
Just because a company sponsors research doesn't mean that it's false. Sure there is a bias, but anyone is free to duplicate the study and prove the results were false.
there is a difference between sponsored research and legit credible paper.
There are many ways of distorting statistics. And when companies sponsor, the scientists are usually forced to come up with results. In order to do that sometimes they get low sample size, biased samples, biased ways of interpreting the data, or they look at many changes. Like for example, get a group of people that drink gatorade and another group that don't. If you look at many different types of stuff between each group, maybe you'll find the group that drinks gatorade has healthier lungs and heart (probably because they exercise more but you ignore that), and you publish this information. And since you sponsored you also have the ability to just ignore the negative results such as maybe gatorade drinkers being more sleepless or maybe having diabeetees because of the high sugar etc. If you sponsor it you can distort the facts into your favor, so they shouldn't be trusted.
+Ediz A. 2/3 of all research is carried out by private companies. I think a lot of products you enjoy today wouldn't exist if private research was all false. Besides that, research papers list the method of study and can easily be duplicated by others.
+aletoledo1 he's not saying privite research is all false, just the sport drink 8+ glasses of water of day sponsored research is bs.
I'm working at a research institute and I can tell you, it's almost impossible to get funding to duplicate a study. In practice, it's only done if there is an international agency or a government interested in it.
Especially in the medical field, there are a lot of studies where not all data necessary for duplicating the results is published.
Check out this (entertaining) Ted talk about the problem:
www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science?language=en
That doctor needs a glass of water
Next Time: Adam Ruins His Credibility
I read once an interesting fact about water that it decreases gas inside the stomach. Thus if you drink more there is less space for gas in the stomach.