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TweetOk I have been reading that some bros are drinking 2-3 gallons of water a day, how in the hell do do work at your job and drink that much water. It takes everything I got to put down 1-1.5. If i drank as much as some people I would piss every 5 minutes. Is there a secret to retaining water?
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Tweet1 - 1.5 is fine bro. The 2 GA thing is over done IMO.
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they are suppose to like, what they're suppose to buy, and what they're suppose to laugh at. You have Beavis and Butthead telling you what music you're allowed to like and not like, and you've got sitcoms that have canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is. People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves because America has raised them that way.
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TweetWARNING!!!! Drinking too much water will dilute your sodium blood levels so bad that it can cause your brain to swell and consequential death. If you drink lots of water, make sure your salt intake is decent. Two to three gallons a day is major overkill anyways.
FG Resident
TweetIt's called hyponatremia. It takes a lot of water in a short ammount of time to induce this condition. Endurance Athletes are more at risk than we are. But still - he's right, don't over do it. Sprite said it best, "Obey your thirst". If you're thirsty, drink, if not, don't.
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they are suppose to like, what they're suppose to buy, and what they're suppose to laugh at. You have Beavis and Butthead telling you what music you're allowed to like and not like, and you've got sitcoms that have canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is. People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves because America has raised them that way.
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Water
TweetI shoot for 2 gal a day...I tug along a gallon with me everywhere I go, I run to the store, take the h20 with...it is my sidekick..
Stroyer
Tweeti get 2-2.5 i carry my bottle with me everywere
TweetGat damn that's a lot of water. I good with about a gallon.
FG Resident
Tweetone to one and a half here as well...don't know how some bros do it
TweetI'm sayin I thought that was alot, but I thought that I wasn't doing something right, So I still wanna see the dudes that say they drink 3 and see how they work at the same time. lol
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TweetScience - Reuters
No Need to Guzzle All That Water, Expert Says
Fri Aug 9, 7:40 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trying to do the "right" thing by drinking eight full glasses of water a day may do little more than make a person run to the bathroom, a researcher said on Friday.
Newspaper articles, health and beauty magazines all advise drinking at least 8 full glasses of water a day totaling 64 ounces for optimal health -- an approach called "8x8" by proponents.
But Dr. Heinz Valtin of Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire said there is no scientific evidence to back up this advice, which has helped create a huge market for bottled water.
"After 10 months of careful searching I have found no scientific evidence that supports '8x8'," Valtin, who has written textbooks on the subject of human water balance, said in a telephone interview.
Writing in the American Journal of Physiology, Valtin, a kidney specialist, said people forget that the food they eat also contains some water.
The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council ( news - web sites) has recommended that people take in about one milliliter of water for each calorie of food eaten.
This adds up to two liters, or 74 fluid ounces on an average 2,000-calorie diet. But the National Research Council also noted that much of this is already contained in food.
"I did 43 years of research on that system -- the osmoregulatory system. That system is so precise and so fast that I find it impossible to believe that evolution left us with a chronic water deficit," Valtin said.
LOW ON FLUID
If a person gets low on fluid, the body compensates by bringing fluid back out of the kidneys and by slowing the loss of water through the skin, Valtin said. Thirst kicks in long before dehydration starts, he added.
"It does it very quickly and very accurately and it does so in minutes," Valtin said.
He said he and colleagues became concerned after seeing dozens of newspaper and magazine articles urging people to sip water all day. "I started talking to my colleagues and asking them 'Do you know of any evidence for this?'. Invariably, they said, 'No I think it's a myth'," Valtin said.
The journal asked him to review all the scientific studies he could find and he concluded that someone misinformed has been telling people to drink large amounts of water when most do not need to.
"I am referring to healthy adults in a temperate climate leading a largely sedentary existence," Valtin said. "Persons with certain diseases must have large volumes of water -- kidney stones are probably the most common example."
The rest can just drink enough to slake thirst -- and this includes coffee, tea, and even beer -- despite their diuretic effects, Valtin said.
He hopes people will be relieved of the guilt of not getting enough water, and of the expense of buying bottled water to drink throughout the day.
"There is also the possibility that if you drink a lot of water that happens to be polluted then of course you get more pollutants," Valtin said.
"Then there is the inconvenience of constant urination, the embarrassment of having to go to the bathroom all the time," he added.
And overdoses of water can cause water intoxication that can lead to confusion and even death. Water intoxication is one deadly effect of taking the drug Ecstasy, for instance, because it makes people thirsty beyond their physical needs.
TweetNice post .
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Tweet"There is also the possibility that if you drink a lot of water that happens to be polluted then of course you get more pollutants," Valtin said.
I just thought that was a good point~
TweetI make sure to atleast get 1 gallon a day.
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Tweetmore than 1 or 1 gallon is all good. creatine will help you retain some. when u hit da gym carry a gallon bottle and zip like crazy thats my trick. my intake is two gallons plus a day. oh and if you hate the taste of plain water put some crystal lite in it
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