drinking water is one of the basic necessities to good health
yet somehow as humans we managed to screw it up so in this video i'm going to show
you the six common mistakes that you're making when it comes to drinking water
hey wellness warrior i'm dr zyrowski and i think the topic of good healthy pure clean water is a
very important topic and over the years i've spent an enormous amount of time studying it to just
identify what the best ways are that we can drink water and do it in a good healthy way so let's go
ahead and dive right into the six common mistakes that you're making when it comes to drinking water
and the first is going to be drinking toxic water okay now there's a lot of nasty stuff in water and
you might be asking well what would be in water that could affect me negatively right because
there's a lot of people who drink tap water and not really worry about the purity standards of the
water they're consuming well first of all if you live in farm country like me you certainly have to
be worried about pesticides and herbicides it's something that's very very commonly used i mean
the farmers are literally spraying it in their fields in gallons and gallons every single week
throughout the year when they're farming and so the pesticides and herbicides go into the ground
they get into the underground water channels and they end up in your drinking water so we
have to make sure that we're avoiding that now if you're someone who's living in the city you
have all kinds of different problems first of all pharmaceuticals are a huge issue especially
pharmaceuticals that are being flushed on the toilet and beyond that pharmaceuticals that are
just flushing through people's bodies and going into the water you can take birth control for
example this is a huge problem it's loading the waterways with tons of estrogen and this is why
men are having estrogen issues and women are having estrogen issues and sea and marine
life are having estrogen issues it's a huge problem because that stuff doesn't just go away
and then the other thing that you have to be careful for if you live in the city
is fluoride in your water and so no matter where you live i mean once again i live out in farm
country and one of the things that we have out here in high amounts and is naturally occurring
nobody put it there it just is there naturally is arsenic right so you have to always be careful
with these high level of contaminants in your water and we have to make sure even if we're
going in buying water that we are making sure it's with good purity standards a lot of the purity
standards that you're going to find your typical bottled water having is very low i mean one time
we got water that was bottled from uh i think we had a party or something i mean this stuff tastes
like toilet water i mean it was awful and i don't know how i would know how toilet water tastes but
anyway i digress so you want to make sure that when you're getting water it's good stuff and even
when you're going to the store and filling up water containers you do have a problem
with the store itself not keeping up with the filtration system that happens all the time they
don't change them at the appropriate time frame and next thing you know they're not filtering
anything you're literally just paying for city water so we want to make sure that we are getting
the best water quality that we can in my house i use a six stage system that's designed to pull
all this stuff out just for our drinking water it's too expensive to run for the whole house
system but just for the drinking water we do that and over the years i went through many different
methods i used to distill all my water now i know a lot of people say oh my gosh distillation you
can't do that because there's a big problem that pulls out all the minerals but look here's the
thing distillation pulls out all the different contaminants that's why they use distilled water
in labs when i was getting my degree in biology we always had to use the distilled water in the
labs because that was the purest so the reality is is that you would have to drink an enormous amount
of water if you were going to get all the mineral content that you needed throughout the day anyway
so you're better off buying pure water in or even getting distilled water and putting minerals back
in or adding minerals into different ways in order to get your mineral content up if that's a concern
of yours and the other thing you have to consider is that nobody ever talks about this but distilled
water yes that pulls your minerals out but if you have a really good water purification system that
still pulls all the minerals out so either way you have to add them back in more so than not
today now let's move on to our next thing drinking too much or too little water very common mistake
now the rule of thumb is that you would consume 50 of your body weight in ounces okay so if you
weighed 160 pounds divide that by two so you're at 80 pounds so 80 ounces of water in order to make
sure that you're well hydrated now i don't really agree with that because these arbitrary numbers
when it comes to drinking water are kind of silly right there's so many different factors involved
like did you exercise what's the climate like that you're in are you active throughout the day
are you sitting at a desk all day there's a lot of different things to consider so
throwing those numbers out there are a little bit silly but what we want to do is we want
to make sure that we are just kind of monitoring ourselves to make sure that we're not falling into
a dehydration pattern or even over hydrating so a few things to look for if you're starting to
become dehydrated or drinking too little water is first of all a headache okay that's something
very common you start to get headaches this is a big problem for me actually when i'm working
in the clinic and i'm seeing patients and i'm you know just kind of on a roll and i'm you know deep
in the thought process of patient care i forget to go drink water and if i do that i will find myself
in a position at night where i realize i didn't drink enough water and i'll wake up with a real
bad headache in the middle tonight if i don't get that turned around really quick so another thing
that will show up is constipation muscle cramping is a big one okay this is something that's very
very common okay many people are struggling with muscle cramping issues and we'll talk more about
that in just a minute brain fatigue is another i mean it's unbelievable how many people become very
fatigued throughout the day just because they're not well hydrated get that hydration in now dry
mouth bright yellow urine skin elasticity okay what you can literally do is pinch the skin on
the back of your hand is it very elastic or does it kind of just stay in the same position after
you pinch it that's a way of knowing if your skin is showing that you're a little bit dehydrated
and then also false hunger is another one right so a lot of people confuse thirst with hunger okay so
if you're kind of a hungry all the time make sure that you just go drink a glass of water and see
if it's not just a hydration issue that you're facing and this is where a lot of people overeat
because they think that they are hungry in fact their body is just thirsty as a rule of thumb
drink a glass of water before you go and turn to food especially if you're someone who's trying
to lose weight it'll help you a lot so also you could have a problem where you're drinking too
much water okay that was all the symptoms of too little but the symptom of too much is typically a
electrolyte depletion issue okay now literally you can have electrolyte depletion issues on either
side of the spectrum if you're drinking too little or too much but the reality is is that if this
shows up one of the big and common signs that you're going to find that you'll have is fatigue
okay and then also a lot of muscle cramping so those two things you can watch out for and you
can just put a little sea salt in your water you can also use a really good tasty electrolyte drink
i use an electrolyte drink almost every single day and it's simply because when you're trying to eat
healthy and you're just drinking water and that's like your main fluid source and you're somebody
who's cut all the energy drinks and sodas and all the teas and all that stuff out of your life
it's nice to switch it up a little bit and have something that is a different flavor
i'll put a link in the description below to the electrolytes that i use every single day there's
a grape there's an orange and there's a blue raspberry they're delicious so we want to make
sure that we are getting the proper amount of electrolytes because this will sway us
and make make us feel horrible it's so often that people are dealing with electrolyte issues
it blows my mind when i have people in the clinic come in and say you know doc i'm going to schedule
an appointment with you because i'm just having such bad muscle cramps in my legs at night i'm
like don't schedule an appointment with me that's a waste of my time that's a waste of your money
take these electrolytes first and tell me how you feel in like 99 of the time they go oh yeah
that fixed it like perfect right so make sure that you're staying well hydrated but staying hydrated
appropriately and getting the electrolytes in it's going to make you feel a lot better it also
is very much attached to your energy throughout the day so as a rule of thumb what i like to do
is consume about 40 to 60 percent of your body weight in ounces okay and that's a sliding scale
simply because if you exercise if you're very active if you're in a hot climate you have to
adjust to that okay don't get caught in the trap where it's like a gallon a day or you know
this exact amount eight glasses a day those are silly numbers don't fall into that moving on from
that the next thing you got to watch out for is drinking too much water when you're eating okay
this is something that actually has a pretty negative impact on your digestion what it does
is it basically dilutes your stomach acid and as a result of that you can get a lot of bloating
you can have a hard time breaking down proteins and it can cause a lot of digestive distress okay
so it doesn't mean that you can't drink any water when eating but certainly you don't want to be
pounding the water when you're eating try to drink a lot of water like pre-meal or post meal but like
not directly when you're eating because it will affect your ability to digest your food properly
now the next one is not drinking any water when you wake up okay this is a big problem people
wake up and after going eight hours of sleep let's say your body is very dehydrated at that
point one of the first things i like to do is i wake up and i exercise and i do an electrolyte
drink right then and there simply because i know that there's the dehydration issue from
the exercise but also from sleeping all night and not drinking any water so i drink a glass
of water and then that now some people will have coffee right off the bat and that's even kind of
compounding the dehydration issues so we want to make sure that we are drinking water right
off the bat because that's if we start off our day fatigued out like you know it's not going to feel
good and dehydration causes fatigue and so we also don't want to try to cover up that dehydration
fatigue by drinking more caffeine from the coffee so water should be your first go-to like you don't
want to drink coffee or teas or anything like that upon waking until you've had your glass of water
and if you want to do what i do you can throw some electrolytes in at that point in time too
next on our list is going to be drinking too much at night okay this is a category i fall into all
the time where it's like like i said i'm working with patients all day and my mind's just kind of
very much focused i don't drink enough water and then nighttime comes i go oh my gosh like i better
do something about this dehydration issue so i'm like slamming water at night trying to like get
my you know hydration back up and then of course you're running to the bathroom all night so what
the ideal thing to do is make sure that you're staying well hydrated throughout the entire day
and then you're tapering off at night so that you can have a better night's sleep because
otherwise you run to the bathroom all night and then drinking out of plastic containers or just
like low quality water containers in general a lot of people drink out of like a blender bottle and
those are plastic and so you shouldn't be drinking out of those all the time drinking out of cheap
plastic containers of the water bottles that you get from the store shouldn't be drinking out of
those drinking out of plastic gallon jugs you want to stay away from that stuff and the reality is
is most people will say well i just make sure i get bpa-free but the thing is that you have to
understand about plastic is that nobody really understands all the chemicals that are in it
what's happened with the plastic industry is because bpa was so demonized and they still need
to use all these different chemicals to make the plastic they essentially pulled out bpa because
they identified that it was a real problem and causing a lot of health issues however
what they do in these industries is that they go and just make a couple of derivatives that are
a few molecules off or different that are nearly the exact same thing and they'll have 10 different
chemicals in there though they pulled out bpa nobody's complaining so we have to make sure that
we're just staying away from plastic all together when we're drinking i'm a big fan of using
a stainless steel container or drinking out of glass those are going to be the best case
scenarios for you ceramic whatever but we want to make sure that we're staying away from the cheap
uh containers that could have some of these chemicals leaking out into your water because
obviously we're doing the most we can if you follow this channel you understand
the toxicity issues that our our bodies are facing every single day we want to make sure that we
are staying away from every toxin possible and that would definitely be plastic containers so
these are the top things that you have to watch out for when it comes to water
now that you are so much more educated on water i hope you're making the best decisions for
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