• AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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    If ur constantly peeing ur probably drinking too much water. This is one of those things you don’t really notice when you’re doing it right, but it will drag you down if you are constantly dehydrated.

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    12 hours ago

    But, but, it’s 3am and I just drank 40 beers in Tijuana. It must be a water related issue.

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    I think with a lot of these health trends, it doesn’t take account for the fact that humans are animals.

    Animals can’t always guarantee they’ll get enough water, or enough food, or the right kinds of food. Bodies aren’t like a machine that requires specifically calibrated amounts of inputs. Instead if you drink too much you’ll pee out more. If you drink too little your pee will be more concentrated so your body retains more liquid. If you get more nutrients than you need, the extra will be eliminated.

    It’s probably true that with many things (except calories) it’s better to get a bit too much rather than too little. Maybe it’s true that for water it’s better to get nearly the maximum rather than slightly more than the midpoint amount. But, it seems unlikely to me.

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      This has always interested me, especially when I’ve read here and there that issues such as obesity is much more accurate as being a diet problem rather than an exercise problem. Not that the latter doesn’t help at all, certainly.

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        Yeah it’s a lot easier to eat less calories than it is to burn off that many. 100 calories is like a bag of crisps or so (depends on what) but 100 calories is also about 10 minutes of running which is a lot more work than just eating less. Not that you shouldn’t run but if you’re trying to lose weight it has a much bigger impact to stay at a calorie deficit.

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    Me before drinking lots of water: depressed

    Me after drinking lots of water: depressed, but hydrated

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    if you dont drink the pee, that’s your problem, like that you just waste the water, you have to put it back

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    See the trick is you gotta combine that with eating more fiber!

    Then your will piss more and you will poop better.

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      After completely cutting fibre from my diet my poop has been easier than ever before, my water intake is unchanged except I don’t find I drink enough anymore to turn my pee perfectly clear

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      The quality of my poops after eating more fiber is probably one of the things im most proud of but cant tell anyone in normal life.

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    • At best, if it as as good as it’s said, it helps your liver, kidneys and bladder by getting rid of noxious substances faster and at lower concentration levels.
    • As worst, if it has no benefits at all, you piss more often.

    Unlike most “health” trends out there “drink more water” will be very good in the mid and long term if it works and only mildy inconvenient if it doesn’t, so logically it seems worth trying unless you’re in the kind of situation where taking a piss is somehow dangerous.

    IMHO, people going for “convenience today” above all else is behind most of the shitty trends in most present day societies, and I don’t just mean it in health terms.

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      I am one of the OG hydro homies and it legit changed my life drinking more water. Skin cleared up (acne wasn’t terrible, but there was almost always some blemish), lost weight (less soda, less hunger in general), reduced stomach issues (helped with getting regular and not binging, just better general gut feeling), no more UTI’s.

      I also get to pee like 4 times throughout the day at work which just helps break up the day.

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      Instant gratification. Why have thing later? Want thing now. Give thing now. Why wait for later?

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    It wouldn’t be surprising if a person who was drinking too little water was also getting too little sleep and too little exercise, so they could have multiple sources for the same symptoms.

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    You are not drinking more water, the average adult drinks too little, you’re drinking enough.

    edit: less -> little

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    I’ve found that once I increased my salt intake (along with my water intake) my brain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, and pee went away.

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        If you give up processed foods you will find that salt is in nothing unless you add it. I eat no processed food and I need to add quite a bit of salt to my food

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        🤷‍♂️

        Maybe? Maybe not. It’s expensive to test for, and cheaper to treat the symptoms. And I can monitor my vitals myself.

        ~Finest healthcare in the world!~

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          Obviously I don’t know anything about you but I have cystic fibrosis so I lose a TON of salt and do need a high salt diet, some people who carry the cystic fibrosis gene express it fairly strongly and need more salt… could be something unusual like that I guess

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              This conversation got me super excited to try it, only to see that it costs 3x as much as Powerade Zero packets. Since we easily chew through a 10pack of packets a week, I can’t bring myself to have her try it.

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                I understand. It is costly. I use it because of its potency and other ingredients. But I am open to suggestions for better products.

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                  We tried the cheapest stuff Amazon will sell and went back to Powerade Zero.

                  The next step is trying to build your own electrolyte drink, but that is a recipe for disaster.

                  Puns aside, I was concerned about giving myself an electrolyte imbalance. I asked the doctor about it and they told me to just eat food, weirdo (sass for dramatic emphasis, but I definitely got the look I give end users when they ask stupid questions).

            • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
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              I wandered in the fediverse
              To brighten up my day;
              I found a funny story where
              A turd won’t flush away.

              It made me laugh, it made me cry:
              The cleaner had to watch him try,
              But while she gazed, it was then proved
              The crap was easily removed.

              And senseless, she would think it was
              For her to have to see, because
              His Swedish language really was
              Quite useless, and we see that it
              Did not explain this hapless git
              Or why he showed her this big shit.

              So mystified she still will be
              And puzzzled for eternity:
              This stranger and the giant poo
              He weirdly showed her in the loo.

              I laughed and chuckled, then I see
              The person posting next to me -
              A Poem_for_your_sprog is here!
              A legend! - wow! - from yesteryear!

              I’ll take this chance to tell you how
              Your random poems, then and now,
              Have brought me joy. And that is why,
              Without help from LLMs, I
              Have tried to say in silly rhymes
              A thank you for the happy times
              You’ve brought me.

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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        Okay, slightly exaggerated. More like I stopped peeing as frequently.

        Salt causes water retention.

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          With fizzy drinks I found it very easy to shift towards flavored seltzers instead of it’s the fizz specifically. And if it’s sodas… Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular due to the mix of multiple sweeteners. Totally different from diet sodas which usually just use one or two, usually aspartame which also has a strong aftertaste.

          If possible for chocolate, higher quality products often will hit that craving better than the cheap candy bar type stuff with 5x the amount of sugar.

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            Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular

            Unless you have hypersensitivities and can taste the sweeteners lmao. Though I have to say that most of regular sodas taste like chemicals too, so it’s not that different either way

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              I was gonna say, I can not only taste the difference, but I also get violent diarrhea whenever I drink the zero-sugar sodas.

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            Be somewhat wary of artificial sweeteners, most of them are relatively new and so have unwanted side effects ore unknown side effect. (I geuss it’s like vaping : better than smoking but not great). Some known ones include : --cancer-- (edit : the cancer part is wrong aparently, see coment bellow) and obesity because you body cranks your calorie retention to the max (it sees a full can of something that tastes very much like sugar go in and no calories come out so it goes "wow, i’m really bad at extracting and storing energy. Let’s improve that ! And you get fucked next time you eat sugar) anyways, as with everything, be mindfull with consumption

            • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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              Some known ones include : cancer and obesity because you body cranks your calorie retention to the max

              The aspartame cancer study is a complete joke. They fed those mice a x1000 higher concentration of sweetener than any human would ever eat

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                Well til, anyways, i’m not telling you that articficial sweeteners are worse than sugar, i’m telling you that you might not want to take too much artificial sugar.

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          It gets easier if you go 100% cold turkey for a few months; I stopped any kind of refined sugar in like 2016 and now more subtle sweetnesses stand out, and the occasion I eat things like ice cream with chocolate or a glazed jelly donut makes me physically ill.

          I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice? Why is there so much??

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            I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice?

            Even more amazing is that people paint the Monster logo (the three claw marks) on their fucking cars. Imagine getting your sense of self-worth from your overpriced energy taurine drink of choice.

          • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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            I had this too. After a month without sugar, I lost the taste for it. I can do a few spoons of icecream or a tiny bit of cake, but that’s it. I can eat a shit ton of sweet fruit though. I ate 4 mangoes in a day. (Don’t do that.)

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        TFW experiencing all the symptoms of addiction to sugar: “I must not be drinking enough water 🤔”