April 22, 2024

HH281: Hydration & Illness Prevention

HH281: Hydration & Illness Prevention

Today I am talking about how good hydration can help prevent illness.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and Master Practitioner in NLP and Timeline Therapy and a Board Designated Hypnotherapy Teacher Trainer, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements.  Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa is the winner of the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 60 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

 

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Transcript
Melissa Deally:

Welcome back to another episode of health hack as I continue talking about hydration, and if you're just tuning in, I recommend you go back to Episode 379. And start at the beginning. This is episode 387. They're all quick little snippets, giving you lots of ways that proper hydration is benefiting your health. And I have two more for you here today. One of them is the prevention of headaches. It is common when we get headaches that it's simply because of hydration the brain is largely made up of fat and water. And if we don't have enough water, then that can cause the squeezing as the baht as the brain starts to dry out and give us a little bit of a headache. And I know this is definitely a go to for me that if I start getting a headache, I will start making sure that I'm hydrating enough and very often the headache will simply go away. Particularly important on hot days where we're perhaps hydrating to our normal amount. However, because it's so hot, we're not hydrating extra and the body is sweating more so we have to make sure we're hydrating enough. The other one is supporting our immune system. Because water helps to transport immune cells throughout the body contributing to a well functioning immune system and reducing our risk of illness. And in previous episodes, I've also talked about the benefit of hydration when it comes to supporting the gut 70% of your immune system is housed in your gut. So hydration is critically important for our immune system. And for those of you that struggle with headaches, are you hydrating enough?