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This is a common misunderstanding around those "you need X glasses of water per day" recommendations -- much (sometimes, most) of your needed water comes in your food and doesn't need to be consumed as a separate thing.
And even though there are other health considerations to them, water you take in the form of coffee, tea, soda, etc., also counts.
https://xkcd.com/1708/ I often heard really exaggerated advice about how much water to guzzle every day. It got crazy. One day several years ago, a nurse was taking vitals on me and told me to drink, I don't know, 48 cups per day or something? It was huge. And I regarded her with incredulity. So upon being taken in to see the doctor, and this was a physician that I really trusted and had a good long tenure, I repeate…
https://xkcd.com/1708/ I often heard really exaggerated advice about how much water to guzzle every day. It got crazy. One day several years ago, a nurse was taking vitals on me and told me to drink, I don't know, 48 cups per day or something? It was huge. And I regarded her with incredulity. So upon being taken in to see the doctor, and this was a physician that I really trusted and had a good long tenure, I repeate…
I wonder if that nurse was confusing "cups" with "ounces".
Drink when you're thirsty. Most anything above that is probably fine.
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpregu.003...
Woo + math == woo
You know what even cooler than an online calculator? Your hypothalamus, kidneys and hormones that regulate water intake and excretion!
Drink when you're thirsty. Most anything above that is probably fine.
As we age our "thirst response" becomes less reliable. I really don't get thirsty until I am starting to become dehydrated. It's good to have a guideline to inform my self-imposed daily drinking regimen.(which I have a hard time keeping)
I learned this the hard way on the third day of my first such trip, when my urine had become brown due to dehydration.
Drink when you're thirsty. Most anything above that is probably fine.
As we age our "thirst response" becomes less reliable. I really don't get thirsty until I am starting to become dehydrated. It's good to have a guideline to inform my self-imposed daily drinking regimen.(which I have a hard time keeping)
Note that while your thirst response may be declining as you age, mine hasn't.
Annicdodes aren't data, mine or yours.
IMHO the 8x8 myth may or may not be optimal guidelines for you as they aren't based on anything but rumors.