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hey guys dr. Burke here listen I want to

answer this question that I keep getting

over and over over again dr. Burke

should I drink more water to help myself

lose weight well the answer is yes it’s

true that water is low in calories and

the idea that it will fill you up and

you’ll be less hungry for about a minute

until you have to pee it all out water

does not dissolve fat they don’t mix too

well so drinking more water is not going

to melt your fat off or help you lose

weight it’s basically you’re going to

you’re going to flush your electrolytes

out when you didn’t listen I’m not

against water okay when you thirsty

drink the water if you’re exercising

drink more water but when I’m against is

over hydration drinking too much water

forcing your body to drink way beyond

what you’re thirsty for is really really

bad for someone to say that everyone

needs a gallon of water a day it’s not

quite true because there’s some dangers

than that there’s a condition called

hyponatremia which is basically low salt

in your blood low sodium in your blood

so when you drink a lot of water you’re

flushing out these key electrolytes

potassium sodium magnesium calcium and

when you don’t have electrolytes there

goes the electrical conductivity to the

heart there goes the muscle contraction

and a lot of other issues so here the

symptoms of low electrolytes because of

too much water with this condition

called hyponatremia you can look this up

I’ll put a link down below and because

we’ve been taught this so much a lot of

people almost get pissed when I bring

this up because it conflicts with what

they already know or what they’ve been

taught but if you have that viewpoint

just I want to ask you where did you

told you that who told you that you need

to drink all this water who told you

that everyone is dehydrated and you’ll

find out like it’s when you start

looking like well everyone just knows

that well where who told you and do you

know if that’s absolutely a truth you

can get confusion weak muscles headaches

your brain can swell and you could have

an increased risk of this thing called

death you could actually die by drinking

too much water

and put you in a situation especially if

you’re an athlete and you’re over

hydrated just putting a lot of stress on

the heart because you’re diluting the

electrolytes again I’m not against

drinking water just if you want to drink

a lot of water just put some life lights

in that water to make sure you don’t

deplete your electrolytes and of course

the worst thing you can do is drink

distilled water and exercise because

that will deplete the minerals even more

but go by your thirst are you thirsty

put attention on am i thirsty of course

you could for you have no attention your

body and forget about drinking water

that’s not good but the point is that if

you’re thirsty drink water if you’re not

thirsty don’t drink as much especially

don’t force yourself to drink and your

body will adapt to that as well last

point about sports drinks and energy

drinks which is a joke because they’ll

put just a little bit of sodium and a

lot of fructose or sugar high fructose

corn syrup in these drinks which also

depletes more potassium out of your body

so you become even more dehydrated it’s

sugar water basically and it’s expensive

sugar water so that is not a good way to

hydrate yourself alright thanks for

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