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The human body is made up of two thirds water and each
tissue within it requires proper amounts of water in order to serve its role. Water
is an essential part for maintaining overall health and every individual needs
it. But, despite it’s importance, many people still overlook the importance of
staying hydrated. Because every function of our bodies depends on some form of
water in order to work properly, when we lack the necessary amount of water our
body needs to undergo through each function, these can be greatly affected or
altered.
It’s not uncommon for people to occasionally catch a cold
but a lack of proper hydration can actually make you feel sick. Dehydration can
cause headaches, a lack of energy, ultimately making you feel lethargic, and
even cause gastrointestinal issues such as aches, cramping, constipation, and
diarrhea, which can all be caused from improper hydration as well. The body
requires water to transport nutrients into our cells but when there is an
insufficient amount of water, these processes don’t occur. By not drinking the
appropriate amounts of water, the digestive tract slows down and all of the
absorption processes are back-tracked, and the absorption of nutrients is greatly
reduced. These problems occur simply because of a lack of water.
Poor hydration can also affect the kidneys because when we
lack water in the body, the kidneys actually start working harder than they
should to filter out the blood. The kidneys usually are the ones to alert us
when we are thirsty but by this point, chances are our body is already
dehydrated and we should be drinking more water to replenish what we need.
The standard daily intake of a proper amount of drinking
water is eight 8 ounce glasses of water per day. While that might seem
difficult for some people to achieve, it’s a target amount of water we should
all be striving to consume in order to improve our health and maintain all the
proper functions within our body.
By Dr. Alex Jimenez
