Posted: 9/27/2009 2:09:58 PM EDT
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I drink, on average 100 ounces of water over the course of a day. Some days less, most days more.
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| a good judge of your hydration is your piss. If you pee 2 times a day and its dark, drink more. If you pee 15 times a day and its clear, you should hold back on the water intake. Also if you're drinking and drinking and still only peeing like twice, make sure to eat healthy meals 3 times a day so you're not sweating out all your salts and minerals. Sweating is a big factor in what you should be intaking. |
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Too much, too quickly will create a hypotonic extracelluar matrix that has the potential to be just as dangerous as being in a dehydrated state. Is 100oz too much? Probably not. wtf are you talking about?  The insides of your cells are kind of salty. The outsides are kind of salty, too. They're just about as salty normally. They're designed (IBTSS) that way. The concentrations of some things are different inside and out (like sodium and potassium ions), but overall, it's pretty close. It creates a sort of uphill-downhill energy system that gates on cells can use to do work. The cells work to maintain that "uphill-downhill" relationship. But if you dilute the outsides of your cells (extracellular space) by drinking too much water, that relationship gets messed up. Cell membranes, the barriers between inside and outside, and semi-permeable membranes in general, allow saltiness to be equalized by letting water through. Too much water on the outside means the membranes will allow water to the insides. This messes with ion concentration and can cause some cells to swell. The body is pretty good at maintaining concentrations, but just don't drink too much too fast. |
