How Much Water Should You Really Drink a Day? | Dr. Josh Axe
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How much water should you be drinking a day? You should be drinking about 25%-50% of your body weight in ounces daily. It’s actually not about how much water you are getting but staying hydrated. Water is vital for your health.
The biggest side effects of not getting enough water can be headaches, lack of energy, weight gain, lack of cleansing and detoxification, weakened immune response, getting the cold and flu easily, or feeling lethargic. Proper hydration is so important to your overall health. To stay properly hydrated, I have four recommendations.
First, I would recommend drinking about half of your body weight in ounces a day. I would also suggest you get more fruits and vegetables in your diet, which are full of electrolytes.
Next, I would recommend consuming all-natural sea salts in your food (Himalayan salt or Celtic salt), which helps your body stay hydrated.
Lastly, I would encourage you to exercise more. Exercise can support the process of hydration because movement increases circulation, increasing electrolyte levels into your cells.
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Water is good and necessary, but you got to have a right dosage. Too little water can cause dehydration and too much of water can flush out electrolytes and also cause dehydration. Trust your body, it's a smart millions of years old machine which knows what it's doing, so drink when you're thirsty and you'll be fine.
1. Water, 25 to 50 %
2. More fruits and veggies
3. Sprinkle sea salt on food
4. Exercise 3 to 4 days a week
Fit n Fab why do we need to sprinkle salt on our food when a lot of food contains sodium?
Use sea salt instead of regular salt
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Seasalt is actually bad than iodized salt. Seasalt can easily bind with other minerals in the kidney forming a crystal like compound which we call kidney stone. On the other hand the iodized salt contains iodine which helps in the production of hormones in the thyroid glands
In all fairness,@@blue_cameron, you should direct your question to Dr. Josh Axe because Fit n Fab is only the messenger. I wonder about the need & wiseness of additional salt consumption, too, but Fit n Fab was only notating for the viewership of this video what Dr. Axe said. You did watch the video, right?
Not sure where you got your info on table salt versus sea salt,@@yujisaito3297, but, to my knowledge, as far as I've heard before, sea salt is what is natural & best rather than manufactured sodium chloride, a.k.a. table salt, the former naturally having iodine while the latter doesn't have iodine naturally.
I guess we both could investigate it more, eh? I think so.
Thank you this was very helpful!
Great advice, as usual. Gods blessings continuing...
Thanks, Really Nice Information
+Dr. Josh Axe A year old, yet still very insightful. Thanks for helping to educate on the truth behind hydration. It's not just about what you need in a day, it's what you need right now.
Excellent presentation of such valuable information.
Thank you Dr. Axe.
Wow I have no idea it would be that much! Makes sense though. I always feel better and have more energy the more water I drink! ~ Shower Manager
Thanks doc! this was great info that you gave
Great information, thanks!
Good to know Doc...thanks!
I Honestly and absolutely adore u Dr.Josh Axe.
your videos are very informative and life changing for the people with positive attitude.
Keep up the great work you are doing . Its a true blessing and God bless you .
This helped me so much.
Very helpful, thanks Dr!
thank you Doc....so encouraging.
Thank you! Knowing is half the battle 😊
How do you feel about 'chugging' water in mornings, between meals, & before bed?
i use RO water & add about 2-4 pinches of pink Himalayan sea salt & squeeze alittle Lemon into my gallon, i guess so it added some nutrients back to the water.
I will rely on my thirst. its stood me and my grandma in good stead so far. By the way I am 61 and she lived to be 98 and died after a fall.
Good information for everybody
Stay hydrated 💪
Thank you Dr. Axe
Your videos are always a great for me
Stay hydrated! 💯
Thank you!
This thrive program that I'm on is really good for that, I drink more water now then ever
I like that you focused on the good foods and exercise. "Water" is not some magic solution, it's everything combined. You lived up to your holistic moniker with this advice. : )
I drink about 100 ounces a day.It makes my skin look flawless!
I want flawless skin
It's not only skin...my hairdresser said my hair has greatly improved now I drink more water.
ellesa k I drink 270 ounces or like normal people call it 8L of water a day. I do train 5-6x a week. Anything 2.5L a day is proven to be a great amount for the average person, but depending on your workouts and diet your gonna want to adjust that.
Any tips for those dehydrated(/ADHD) girls?! Bc 100oz is insane. 270oz?! Is that dangerous?! Ha Ha. ☺️ For the most part I have lucked out in the skin and hair department in terms of genetics (but I was also born with a subpar colon; win some lose some😇) but i'm excited to see what *75oz* of water a day is going to do. (* 75oz-Is going to be torturous for me.)
Alexandra Marks 100oz is not insane. 1 gallon a day.
THX SOO MUCH
Great video.
It depends greatly on your diet. I eat mostly fruits and vegetables and rarely if ever drink anything. I also have very little salt in my diet. I walk a lot as well. Everything depends.
I like to defuse fruit and veggies in my water over night to flavor and detox!! Do you have a video on defusing fruit in water? i am hooked on these videos! nutrition is a new passion of mine. -rachel
thank you
Make it simple!
How may liter water should I drink a day?
Thanks for the video. Does coffee/milk count as well? At 165 pounds I drink on average 50 oz of water, 34 oz of coffee, 17 oz of milk and 17 oz of beer a day.
I drink about 2-5 decaffeinated coffees a day. Plus two glasses for my meds. I make that slightly under 3 pints.
I've heard people suggest adding a few grains of real salt into their drinking water. Would you recommend this practice?
Thank u doctor
2.6L of water a day? I better carry a port-a-loo around with me everywhere too. I guess that will cover the exercise part of it.
I drink 9+litres a day
+yudi papa 😅😅
@@yudibhatia4738 I drown myself in the sea and drink as much as possible
Well what a blessing to find a Christian Dr. who teaches the natural ways of the bible. I'm so glad to have found your site. Thx so much for posting these very helpful video's. Can't wait to show my husband. God Bless you and your family.
Kimberly K Allah has created every living thing with water
Kimberly K how did you know he's Christian?!
I was told that only drink when your thirsty otherwise you are drinking too much. I never get thirsty so what am I supposed to do?
Dr Axe, is it generally safe to drink tap water?
Hey great video but what is sodium necessary for?
i watched m.a.s.h. for years, ur medical advice checks out.
I wonder if this is pure water. Or do herbal teas constitute water intake too?
Thank you for this helpful information. There is only one thing that I can't understand. My grandmother, my father and my uncle (all elderly members of my father's family) all eat mostly bread and dairy products, very little vegetables and fruit (some potatoes, onions, rice and cabbage, and apples and plums in autumn), meat very rarely, they drink very little water or any liquid, and all of them are always healthy. No disease, no visits to doctors. Grandma is 93, my father is 72 and my uncle is 74. My mother's family eat a lot of meat and vegetables, they also don't drink much water or other liquid, and they live long, but have some cardiovascular diseases when elderly. My generation eats lots of vegetables and fruit, drinks lot of water and almost all of us has some kind of disease (cancer, autoimmune, etc).
straight milk is mostly water. potatoes have some water, especially if they are boiled. onions and cabbage both have quite a bit of water. apples and plums are medium to high in water content. other dairy products have less (especially dry cheeses like parmesan) but most contain enough to contribute to the body's fluid needs.
health issues of each generation have very different causes, and usually not a single cause. maybe grandma had fresh fruit and veg from her garden (which would have been organic by default) while you have been exposed to a great deal of junk food, or perhaps nonorganic food that has pesticide residues, or maybe it's unrelated to diet entirely and you have an inflammatory process related to an allergy. maybe you've been exposed to a number of carcinogens over a period of time - tobacco smoke for example. there are SO MANY things that go into a disease process. it's also possible to be genetic, but with previous generations the condition was dormant, only to be triggered in your generation. when my ancestors ate their regular diet (which had few vegetables and only seasonal fruit) they were healthy and strong. they started to eat a standard diet and now most of them have, or have died from, diabetes. for us it's genetics loading the gun, but what we feed ourselves is what pulls the trigger.
Hello Dr. Axe, I have a question about Iodized Salt. Is it healthy? We need Iodine for Thyroid function, right?
wow really like his video
It all depends on conditions.
Dr Axe, is alkaline water recommended?
Since fruits and veges are not suppose to be mix together, what is safest way to eat them? How many hours gap in between fruits and veges?
I think it depends though right isn't that why this is so hard to answer like if you live in Pa like me it's always chilly or cold except summer it's hot but in Arizona it's always gonna be really hot and Alaska is usually colder or chilly even in summer it's 50-60 degrees
What about if you are active? How does that change things? I weigh around180, but do a 50 min walk at noon and 40 mins of cardio in the evening. I’m drinking at least 110 oz of water and usually a lot more. I’m just trying to be sure I’m not drinking too much.
Where do these requirements for the amount of water consumed daily come from?
I only drink 64 ounces of water a day. I can't drink any more than that because I spend half the day going to the bathroom. I don't know how someone can stay out of the bathroom drinking a hundred 150 ounces of water. these people must have massive bladders.
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+Kim Jong Un hahaha
Kidney/bladder issues. Look into the water element diet in Chinese medicine
you're right, different people have different sized bladders! it's not just that, though. when i was near 300 lbs it felt like my bladder was the size of a shot glass - i'm 210 now and my bladder is pretty big. i think the amount of intraabdominal fat weighing down on the bladder made a huge difference, pardon the pun.
another thing that'll make a big difference is what else you eat in the day. on a day when i don't eat a whole lot of fruit and veg i drink a gallon of fluid - mostly water with a significant amount of coffee. on the other hand, if i eat half a pound of canteloupe after my breakfast eggs, that is going to get processed down into nutrients and, yes, a fair bit of water. if i was to eat all the fruit i want, plus veggies and hummus, plus water, i couldn't possibly drink my gallon of fluid. also, physical activity and tendency to sweat will make a difference. i have a medical condition and i sweat out electrolytes way faster than normal people so i have to drink WAY more water and salt to stay hydrated. on a typical day i go to the bathroom twice when i wake up (when i wake, before i leave) and every 2 hours or so in between depending on what i eat and drink.
you gotta do what's right for YOUR body because it's unique to you.
Donna Cobb-Fox rather or not you use bathroom is not about how much its about how fast you could drink over 100 and be fine if uts spread through out the entire day in fact if you do that youd go less your bladder is designed to be saturated think of it like sponge as the spinge gets more and more water less water falls off edge and it becomes more absorbed so if you drink allot and spread through out day youll be fine not just fine but actually better
How do you know if you're body is ABSORBING the water?
Awesome videos Dr Axe; thank you; I have a question can you drink too much water; I typically drink my entire bodyweight in water or more per day (especially when exercising) is this too much? Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us; eternally grateful. Simon (UK)
if it was too much you would know it. you run the risk of a condition called hyponatremia, which is literally a shortage of sodium in the body. i get it every summer because of my medical fun stuff. typically it happens when you sweat a lot, making you lose sodium, and don't replenish sodium (gatorade, pretzels, table salt, anything). at first you don't quite feel right but it can make you feel drunk - stumbling around and slurring - in a hurry. if you've been drinking this much and have not felt ill at all, you're good (but just to be sure, eat vegetables that have natural sodium in it).
If you drink the amount of water the speaker is recommending, make sure you replace electrolytes... calcium, magnesium and potassium.
Nils Osmar did you watch the entire video? He mentioned all that as step 2.
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Nils Osmar this is absolute true! We have loosing so much others minerals as well!
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Plz tell me. How many glass we should drink water in one day.otherwise in liters one or more than one.
In always intrigued when people say that if they drink a lot of water they pee alot. YOU HAVE TO EXERCISE ALSO!
Dr. Axe does the same concept (water consumption based on weight) apply to overweight people ?
Just watching this video made me thirsty and so I drank some water. Lol! You know when i grab lunch with my co-workers they always request a cup of water instead of a soda and I think that's a good habit to get into.... plus, it's cheaper as well. :)
what if you are suffering from piles how much water should we drink
Does excess water consumption dehydrate you by flushing out electrolytes? Should I be concerned with consuming too much fluoride found in drinking water?
how much water I should drink if I do an intense workout?
hi josh im 10 and half stone wott water do i need to drink a day in pints thanks mark uk
Dr Axe did you meet patients who can't drink all that water? I personally feel bloated if I drink that much and it impairs my digestion. Plus I don't like to wake up at night to go to the bathroom. So I drink the majority during the morning in a fasted state.
what about herbal tea should the health value be higher than just water alone because there are more essential nutrients dense all while having the benefits of water combined
hello Josh sir ..my waight is 40 and I want to my waight gain so plz tell me the how much water should I drink a day for health glowing skeen
Is there such a thing as water retention and drinking to much water ?
How much water do you drink on the Keto?
What do you have to say about what Dr. Berg states in this video? He states that when we drink as much water as typically prescribed, we end up losing minerals like potassium and sodium, so we end up actually dehydrating ourselves.
Delilah Pugsley I've actually seen that vid too..Dr Berg said drink water when you're thirsty. He made sense about losing minerals naturally with over consumption
I put a teaspoon of sole water (water saturated with Himalayan pink salt) into each 16 oz. bottle of water, the salt water contains 85 trace minerals (like sodium and potassium) that keep electrolytes in balance.
intrested video
is it ok to drink water in a very short time for the day?
the thing about your formula of 50% your body weight.. it really doesn't work with certain people. what if you're 400 lbs? you can't drink 200oz in a day without getting hyponatremia.. what do morbidly obese people need to drink?
he also said 25% so 100 oz for a 400 lb person
Morbidly obese people need to stop drinking Soda and start drinking water. I bet a lot of them drink over 100 oz in Soda a day easy. Start drinking water, start moving around even if it's just waving your arms around for 15 to 30 minutes. Water will decrease their appetite because your body is sending messages saying it is dehydrated give us water and instead they interpret this as we are hungry eat food.
you have a point, but don't assume a person guzzles soda just because their BMI is high. mine's over 30 and i had soda 5 times this year (8 oz x 5). i LOVE drinking water. i drink 3-4 litres (3 quarts - 1 gallon) daily plus coffee (milk, no cream or sugar). i allow myself exactly one "treat day" (NOT binge day) per month. obesity can be a complex issue and it's very frustrating to have people assume we're gluttonous and lazy.
the better question is: What do morbidly obese people need to eat or even better - what they shouldn't :)
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Im losing weight now dr axe I weigh 195.5 so how much water should I drink ? I'm always drinking plenty of water non stop. But I will like to balance it out
How much water should we drink throughout the day ?
Your kidneys can eliminate about 5.3-7.4 gallons (20-28 liters) of water a day, but theycan't get rid of more than 27-33 ounces (0.8-1.0 liters) per hour (14, 15). Therefore, in order to avoid hyponatremia symptoms, youshould not drink more than 27-33 ounces (0.8-1.0 liters) of water per hour, on average
Which water is the best water to drink?
coconut water
and people's lifestyle and vices affects how much water we actually need to compensate for the loss of it.
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I've gone back and forth with water. I keep hearing or reading it's a myth, you do not need that much water. I use to drink a gallon of water a day, but got tired of it. Now I use a used container of orange juice, that holds 59 ounces. Some of which I mix with apple cider vinegar, and Stevia. Not honey, because honey and water do not mix. That much I can manage. Not every day, but almost every day. If that's not enough, I don't want to know about it.
I don't understand how to convert in metric system. what is the math please . in kilos and liters ? thank you . if iam 65 kilos for 1,60meter for instance
I don't even know how people can drink so much water, I had tried my best and is 4 bottles of water (2 litters) each day, is really difficult to do it. but in the other hand 4 beers could be drink really easy no problem. it's like water is really difficult to process on my system.
oosveluzo levso it happens after getting used to flavor. Example put sugar on your spaghetti every time. After a year you're out of sugar and you try to eat the spaghetti. Not as easy
Dee LLuminatti 😂 I never tried spaghetti with sugar that sounds gross!
Kimberly Cun it is gross but he does have a point. Any kind of food is an acquired taste. I guess that goes for water too.
oosveluzo levso so what do you do to make water taste good? Add sugar,
oosveluzo levso if you have alcohol habits means you are in danger in future.
I'd say Josh Axe sounds a lot Adam Carolla
Dr. Josh Axe, thanks for the info. That said, "25 to 50% of what one's body weight is is how much water should be drank"? Really? "25%," maybe, & that still sounds like on the high end.
I'm trying to remember if this is the same thing Dr. Eric Berg recommends, though I think it probably isn't because he, per videos I've seen of him on the subject, is against what he considers drinking "too much water."
Anyway, I suppose it all comes down to knowing what is moderation & abiding with that.
One question more, actually. When one increases one's water consumption to often, he or she will tend more to want to urinate more. What if the urge to urinate is as frequent as within only minutes from the most recent time? Is the water even getting a chance to go anywhere except the bladder?
Oh, I should add, one thing I've heard before Dr. Berg but have heard him say & perhaps you have elsewhere, too, is that lemon can be juiced into the water for drinking to enrich it with electrolytes.
Anyway, all the best!
Hello dr thanks for sharing look forward to seeing you videos keep them coming thanks blessings
Thanks and I'm glad you're enjoying the videos nevaeh tieasha!
+Dr. Josh Axe love the vids! ive subbed up!!
is rock salt ok?
Dr. Josh Axe can it just be regular salt because that's pretty much all I have? and thank you for the video
What about all the sugar in 5-10 portions of fruit ??!!!
HI. JUST WANNA KNOW BADLY ABOUT DRINKING WATER IN STANDING POSITION. IS TRUE THAT IT IS BAD TO DRINK WATER IN STANDING POSITION???? PLEASE ADVICE
I drink 1 gallon a day it really helps with acne and weight loss
Fordays8 not really i have acne and drink between 100 and 160 ounces weight loss is a numbers game your body loses weight in a calorie decifit gains it surplus simple as that it does nothing for weight loss other then maybe help with hunger cravings
Fordays8 damnnnnnn 1 gallon omg
Ok now try 2 gallons.
I can't make sense of it... I'm using online converters. I am 84kg, by converting 42kg to ounces, I get 1481.51, which is 43 liters of water.... So...? What am I doing wrong?
what about 15 min work out will that work as well
how much water does a hyperhidrosis person should drink living in a warm environment
I do a gallon but im 300 and walk a lot at work. might try gallon and half :)
I had a question that
weather we should drink 25to 50%of weight of water of our body weight or it is the 25to 50%of water weight in body
If I drink tap water from my own well, is that bad?
but dr Axe. .don't we get some of our sodium that comes in wtr too ?
fruits and vegetables only, a fruit each time you want to drink is the best way !
I’m 11 how much should I drink? I’m scared I might drink to much
I drink 2L is that good.?