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hey dr. Berg here in this short video we’re going to talk about the water a

myth I know you were taught that you need to drink eight glasses of water a

day I was taught that everyone knows that

that’s what they say you need to do well someday I’m gonna find who they is

because every time I find out a concept that everyone is doing because we just

have to do it I’m suspect because it turns out most of

those recommendations end up to be false down the road so I guess the common

thought is you have to drink half of your body weight in ounces so if I’m 200

pounds that’s a hundred ounces that’s twelve and a half glasses of water a day

that’s a lot of water and that’s eight ounce glasses okay so let’s just go

through this okay number one sixty percent of the body is water is that

true no it’s not true in fact zero percent of your body is

water not one millimetre of your body is pure water it’s all electrolyte fluids

you got your blood you live your urine all these fluids are

electrolytes that’s minerals it’s sodium potassium calcium and a lot of other

stuff in these fluids it’s not just pure water so that’s kind of a a falsity

number two the body doesn’t know when it’s thirsty I love this well first of

all it does know when is thirsty you can perceive thirst hunger hot cold

temperature you can perceive a lot of things you have 52 perceptions of

perceiving a lot of stuff so when someone tells you well sometimes when

you’re hungry you’re really thirsty they’re just making stuff up okay all

right that’s a false all right so now number three water flushes out the fat

so you need to drink more water because it helps you with losing weight there’s

never been one person that lost even an ounce of fat by drinking more water it’s

a myth you can’t lose weight by drinking more water because fat is fat soluble

it’s not water soluble it doesn’t dissolve by pouring more water on to it

it’s not going to happen try this take a slab of bacon fatty

bacon and pour water and shake it up and see if it dissolves I tell you the stuff

that people believe it’s incredible or they say drink more water because you’re

going to eat more eat less calories right because it’s you’re going to not

be as hungry well yeah until you have to use the

bathroom all right number four water flushes out toxins

well again toxins are fats Seibel they’re not water-soluble and that would

be like pesticides insecticides herbicides drugs they’re all fat soluble

they’re not water soluble so it’s not going to flush anything out it’s going

to get stuck in the fat so drinking more water is not going to flush those out

okay number five water helps dry skin not true dry skin is a deficiency of

vitamin A and that’s in the skin that is in the eyes it’s in the dry mouth your

body will dry out when it doesn’t have the oils in the fat not the water same

thing with your joints your joints are lubricated and your your skin is

lubricated and it will look young when you have oil and fat but it’s not water

the people that drink the most water actually are the most dehydrated now how

can that be because the the difference in electrolytes there’s a condition

called hyponatremia and that is a condition where you can die of and it’s

drinking too much water because it’s going to flush out all the electrolytes

and the cells are going to swell because they have no electrolytes to mobilise

the fluid even your brain will swell you can even have a coma a heart attack

enlarged liver okay seizures so all these things can come by drinking so

much water alright so I probably drink on a given day maybe two maybe three

cups of water a day that’s what I drink your body adjust if you drink less

you’ll pee less if you drink more you’ll pee more your body is always trying to

maintain natural balance I personally drink Pellegrino because I

like the carbonation some people don’t I like this it’s mineral water naturally

from the I think it’s Italy and this is what I drink but you could just drink

filtered water but here’s the thing make sure you only drink when you’re thirsty

and if you have someone pushing this water on you just go ahead and send this

video I’ll see you in the next video