water is crucial to our survival, in fact a new born baby is 75 percent water but as
you grow elder, that number reduces to 60 or 55 percent.
But that’s still a significant number, so what would happen if you suddenly stopped
drinking water?!
Water is like a fuel to most of your organs, it helps your brain to function properly,
lowers your blood pressure, and strengthens your muscles!
But since your brain is 75% water, it's the first organ to suffer out of dehydration.
Even if you avoid water for a single day, your brain will literally start to shrink.
It will have to work harder to survive since your energy level is going to be low.
So even a simple task will suddenly be difficult for you to perform.
You will be in a bad mood, you will start loosing your ability to concentrate and most
importantly you are going to suffer from a memory loss!
Your body will try to survive with minimum water thats available within you, so your
skin will get dry, you will start feeling tired and dizzy!
After 3 days without water, your organs will have a difficult time to survive, in fact
they will start to shut down one after another.
In other words, you will slowly start dying.
Most people won’t even survive more than 3 days.
(make it more than 3 days)
So even 1 day without water can have significant negative consequences.
That doesn’t mean you have to constantly keep drinking water, because over-hydration
can also hurt you.
Despite the importance of water to our survival, almost 800 million people don't even have
access to clean water , thats more than twice the population of united states, and up to
8 million people die annually because of that!
So if you have clean water to drink, thats already something to be grateful for.
But, How Much Water Should you Drink a Day!
Unfortunately there isn’t an exact answer, since there are a lot of factors to consider
such as your age, weight, height and so on.!
A person who does a lot of physical work needs more water than the one who is in front of
the computer all the day!
But in general, its something between 2.5 litters a day for woman and 3.5 litters for
man!
The best time to drink water is when you just wake up since you haven’t been hydrated
for the last 7 or 8 hours!
By the way, at least one fifth of your water is going to come from the food that you eat!
Don’t overcomplicate it, simply keep a bottle of water with you all the time and drink whenever
you feel thirsty!
So keep drinking and stay awesome!