- You should always drink that much water.
- Yeah, but I don't.
- Right, but that's why you have bad skin.
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- My current relationship with water
is that I love playing in it, I love the way it looks.
Do I put it inside me, no.
- I should be drinking more water,
I'm trying but it's not that easy.
- Water's so good for you but I know,
but it doesn't matter I don't like it.
It tastes like garbage, I mean it doesn't
taste like garbage, but it doesn't taste good.
- Drinking water is one of the most
basic things you can do and I'm bad at it.
It's like being bad at breathing
which I also am because I have asthma.
- There are multiple days that go by where
I'm confident I don't drink any water.
- So, for 30 days I'm gonna try and drink
eight glasses of water a day.
Which sounds really easy but I know is not going to be.
- The eight, eight ounce glasses rule,
it's just easy for people to remember.
- I am a little skeptical about it
but there most be something about it.
- I'm hoping that my mood will be nice and even.
- Maybe I won't eat as much.
- I'm excited to have that Halle Berry skin
where I look 12 but I'm really 70.
I think she gets it from water.
- Week one was actually I feel almost the easiest week.
So, this is my third out of four glasses for the day.
I'm doing pretty good I feel like.
I was really committed and devoted and I was waiting
for my skin to start glowing and I was waiting.
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So bad right now, I can't even function.
- All right hold on, honestly,
a lot happened over the month.
We didn't really understand why all
these changes were taking place.
So, we decided to bring in a water expert
who could actually tell us why things are happening
to our body and whether it was even related to water.
Because water's not like a miracle elixir, right?
I'm here with Albert Matheny.
- Do you just walk around looking this fit all the time?
- It's my job, I'm an exercise
physiologist and registered dietician.
- Oh, you're like a billboard for yourself, brilliant.
- How much water should people really drink?
I mean some days I'm like, oh God,
I have to do this for a month?
I have to drink all this water.
- For such a simple thing, it's actually really hard to do
and I don't think that anyone is
getting the right amount of water.
I think we all should just have IVs
that we walk around with that we just pick up.
- For the average person, 64 ounces,
enough not to cause problems.
So, it's not a bar that I would shoot for.
You should go above that.
- Oh no. - Yeah, so more water.
- Oh, I failed.
- This was so hard and it is
the low bar for us. - Drinking that much water.
And I would say anywhere between eight
and if you're an active, larger person that's outside a lot,
especially if you work outside, you could easily
be double that, no questions, 15 cups or so, yeah.
- Yeah, I wasn't prepared for that information.
- [Woman] What are the health benefits of water?
- My moods super improved, I spring out of bed,
and I wake right up, it was shocking.
I'm a fairly pleasant person, when men were trying it,
I didn't really get as annoyed,
I was more just like, whatever.
But it's definitely shot up my energy and my happiness.
Waking up was a lot easier and also
falling asleep was a lot easier.
- It's really surprising how much drinking some water
can make you feel better.
Next time you're like, man I need a coffee,
a lot of times if you just drink some water,
you're gonna feel more energized.
- If I didn't drink any water at all,
would I be 60 by the time I'm 30?
I will say one of the happy side effects
is I've been having really great skin days.
So, I haven't been wearing make up at all.
So, I've just been going fresh faced.
Didn't really feel like I needed it.
I felt like my skin was looking good, I just felt good.
- When I was looking in the mirror in the morning,
I did feel I looked a little brighter, or youthful.
- Basically water helps hydrate all your tissues
and skin's your largest organ.
If you're staying hydrated your skin should have
nice elasticity and some give to it.
And if you're really dehydrated,
it's gonna be tighter and more prone to being dry.
Water in general, should be helpful
for your skin to be supple.
If you're chronically dehydrated,
the chances of your lips being chapped are pretty high.
- [Woman] So, how would I know if I'm clinically dehydrated?
- I've been drinking a lot today and I'm still thirsty.
- I notice I'm more thirsty if I don't drink enough.
It's difficult, I try.
- Basically, any time you feel thirsty,
it means you're already kind of dehydrated.
- Okay. - So, hopefully
we're drinking before that.
- [Woman] I always use to get, like I'd have one cocktail,
and I'd be hungover.
- [Man] This allowed you to drink more.
- Oh my God and I was fine.
I went out with my friends last night, we drank a lot.
With the amount that we drank,
I anticipated today being awful and a useless day.
And I feel 100% okay, I feel fine.
I wouldn't even know that I drank.
I woke up at my usual time, I'm tired,
but I'm not hurting the way that I have in the past
and that's bonkers to me.
- Staying hydrated, it helps you kind of regulate
or just know when you're actually hungry
verse when you're just thirsty.
Hey, I don't want to have eight drinks
like I usually do 'cause I really wanted to have four
and I just end up having eight 'cause that happens a lot.
So yeah, the water alternation between drinks is nice.
- So you drink what you're supposed to drink in water.
- [Man] I drink a lot of fluids.
- How much time do you spend in the bathroom?
I have to pee so bad right now I can't even function.
- I literally just went to the bathroom
30 minutes ago or an hour ago.
Feel like I have to go again, it's like you're just going
revolving door between you and the bathroom.
- Three glasses of water in and I really have
to pee, I have to pee.
This is so much pee.
- I hate using public restrooms
and this water challenge has created
this urgency for me to pee.
I imagine this is what it's like to be pregnant.
- Trying to find a bathroom, I've gone
to three separate places, they don't have public restrooms
because in cities they don't do that.
- Maybe changing the timing of consumption.
Guys have bigger bladders.
- I found that when I was drinking a lot of water
I was having two, three, bowel movements a day.
- Yeah. - Is that the norm?
Am I just not pooping usually enough?
I just spent 50% of my time in the bathroom.
Those bowel movements are just sliding right out.
So, it seems like hydration helps with everything.
- The water is helping things
run smoother through my system.
It helped me have regular BMs
and that really saved my butthole.
- It's gonna make you go to the bathroom more
because you think about how you don't have enough water
it's gonna be really compact and dry inside of you
and take a long time to get out
but if you have water it's a much more fluid process.
- Oh right, so you just gave a free constipation remedy.
- Yeah, no totally that. - Just chug a bunch of water.
- That's a massive benefit, is just
moving stuff through your system.
- [Woman] Drinking a substantial amount
of water, can you lose weight?
- I did notice that I was drinking the water
so that I wasn't grabbing food
and I was more concerned about having the water.
- Oh, I'm drinking this water.
So, I guess I don't need to put all that trash in my body.
I've been weighing myself and it did waiver.
First week, I lost four pounds so I was actually expecting
to be like this is gonna keep going just
with water but no, it evened out.
But still, in the end I had lost six pounds.
- Indirectly, you're allowing your body
to pass more waste so maybe you were backed up or something.
Someone may be like, wow I just lost four pounds
and they hadn't gone to the bathroom for a number of days.
It might help you better understand
when you're actually hungry and that might
help you lose weight 'cause you--
- You're not over eating.
- Yeah, yeah, you're not gonna be over eating.
A healthy change like that a lot of times it makes
you more self-aware and more in tune with your body.
If you're properly hydrated, you're not gonna get
false hunger cues about, oh I feel thirsty,
which is really a similar feeling to when you feel hungry.
- Is that normal to feel so bloated?
I am dealing with water babies.
The little sponges that come in the pills
and you put 'em in the water and then it just
turns into a huge massive thing, I just expanded.
- 'Cause when you're really hungry, you drink water,
it makes you feel like a fishbowl in your belly.
- I can't sit down for a long time
because it's so tight and unbearable.
I had to unzip the waist of my skirt
a little bit because I couldn't breathe.
- That usually plays a role with how much salt
you're also consuming 'cause your body's gonna hold
onto the water if your salt consumption's pretty high
'cause we talked about you're trying
to maintain this balance of salt to water ratio.
So, if you're eating a pretty high salt diet,
then your body is gonna retain a lot of water.
- Will I get dependent on drinking all of this water?
It was like, oh I have to drink the water
but then I changed my tune.
Just came from my dance lesson
and I've got my water bottle here.
So, I had to go to a dance weekend
and I certainly drank a lot of water
'cause I was dancing a lot.
- I was so thirsty throughout class
and usually I wouldn't even bring water.
So, I guess I'm getting addicted to water?
(laughs)
- I think in a good way, you might feel like
wow this is making me feel better, I have more energy,
or I'm not feeling as hungry all the time.
It keeps doing homeostasis and wants to even things out.
So, if you're chronically dehydrated,
it can kind of adjust to it.
So, if you're giving it more water
and you're feeling better then yeah, I think so.
- So, I will become addicted?
- Yeah, in a very positive way.
(laughs)
- I know water's important and that guy was so buff
and he was like, yeah water's important.
So, you know it's true.
- The National Academy of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine said the adequate
daily fluid intake is 11.5 cups of fluids a day for women.
- I feel like my skin just felt really lustrous.
I felt my abs and muscles just in general,
I could feel them and they felt a little tighter.
And so, I felt better.
- I'm glad that I tested it to see
that okay, this is really the outcome
and now I won't feel so guilty when I have
a really shitty day and all I drink is Diet Coke all day.
There's no point in being stressed out
about consuming water.
- Remembering to drink that much
is very hard and I still think it's very hard.
Yes, there wasn't too much difference in my skin
before and after but I think I'm gonna keep doing this
and maybe in a few months I will see a bit of a difference.
- Well, if I want to recommend this to a friend,
you need to do it with a positive mindset.
I mean, it could help you lose weight
but it's not the reason to do it.
It might make you just feel good.
I can't believe really there is
a little bit of a change here, wow.
My skin does look dewier. (laughs)
I'm really happy I did the challenge.
- Literally, it's just been good to me.
So, I'm gonna keep doing it.
Drink water people, just drink some Goddamn water!
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