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It is around 70-60 percent of your body made up of water (this calculation is dependent on the gender, body composition and type)! You need to get adequate intake of water per day to exercise, eat, sleep and even important to help your body to excrete toxins. Therefore, you could not live without it and you have to stay hydrated! So, how to keep hydrated better?
In order to keep far away from dehydration, you have to encourage the intake of water into your body. Read also simple tips to keep healthy!
Make sure you can drink 8-7 glasses of water per day! And you should clearly understand that bad lifestyles can make you be difficult to keep hydrated.
How to make sure your body is adequately hydrated for each day?
Follow these simple steps to keep far away from dehydration:
- Get used to drink a big glass of water after waking from your sleep in the morning. While you are sleeping, your body can lose a lot of liquid, and on the other hand there is no activity that you can do to drink water because you are sleeping. And this step will be helpful for your body to increase the intake of water immediately once you wake up from sleep.
- Remember to always keep hydrated all day long. You may forget to drink while being so busy with your routine activities. Try to provide small glass (place it on your office desk) and use it to drink consistently small amount of water throughout the day. Drinking small amount of water consistently will not cause the problem of frequent urination and you can quench your thirst throughout the day without having worry will disturb your productivity.
- Do exercise regularly and keep active in your daily activities. More move of your body will be helpful to make you feel more thirst frequently and then you can drink more water.
- Consume more vegetables and fruits, because both are also good resource of water.
- Reduce and Limit the intake of caffeine & alcohol! Drinking too much caffeine or alcohol can lead to dehydration.
- You can also try with homeopathic remedies in order to help the hydration mechanisms back to active. But contact your doctor first for more detailed information about homeopathic remedies.
- To make sure you always keep hydrated, look the color of your urine when you pee! If you see the darker yellow this means you get poor intake of water, but if the color is light & transparent this means you are adequately hydrated.
Advantages of hydration
Once again as mentioned before, it is so important for us to keep hydrated otherwise we cannot work nor do our activities optimally, because there are a lot of functions of water to support many elements of our body to work well.
Below are some important benefits by staying hydrated:
- Like written before, most of the body consists of water. Therefore, it is so reasonable that the intake of water has important function to make up around 22 percent of bone tissue, around 76 percent of muscles, and around 83 percent of the blood.
- Water has a significant contribution to keep well the performance of metabolism.
- Water can control and maintain the temperature of your body through perspiration.
- Helpful to remove toxins from your body.
- Water has function to cushion and lubricate both the brain tissues & bone.
- Water is important element for transportation of cells to delivery nutrients.
- Etc.
