Hydrate Yourself to Health | GR111

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Okay. Hi, Dana. So nice to see you. Again, I think it's

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two years ago that you're last in the show. So I'm really glad

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that you came back. Thank you so much.

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I'm so happy to be back. Thank you.

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Well, you are the water goddess from me, because you talk about

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something really important, which is hydration. And I just

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remember when I was not really sleeping well, someone told me

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you probably dehydrated. And I didn't believe that at all,

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until I actually drank more water and did some more

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hydration things. And all of a sudden, I could sleep better. It

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was amazing.

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Yeah, I love that, that that that particular statement is so

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important for me to hear. Because the truth is, there's no

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studies that show by hydrating, better, you're going to sleep

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better, there are studies that show by hydrating, better,

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you're going to be able to sort of detoxify better, because

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that's when we're sleeping were detoxifying. But I know, from a

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clinical standpoint, that when you're you're better hydrated,

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you are sleeping better. So I love I love that you found it

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firsthand. And that's what a lot of the book is about. It's it's

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being in your own skin and trying this odd and finding what

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your your setpoint is for proper perfect hydration, you know, and

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and standing in it and feeling it.

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So why do you think so many people are dehydrated and don't

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really take care of this important part of health.

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So it's not really talked about as so much I'm here to talk

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about it. And for many reasons. First of all, we're living in

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different environments than we did even five years ago, with

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all of the, you know, the the fluorescent lights, the the air

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conditioned environments, the processed food, the medications

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that we're taking. You know, we're just living in different

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environments. We're living indoors and desert environments

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than then than we ever have before. Cell phones, electronic

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devices that are just giving off whether or not even think about

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the 5g, what we don't know about it, we're still have we're

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surrounded by electronic devices, everywhere we go. We're

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not moving the way we used to move. But the Yeah, so So I

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mean, we're just living in different environments than we

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then we were even

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so we have habits that were basically habits from an old

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environment and the new environment would require us to

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have better habits when it comes to hydration.

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Absolutely. And also we were working harder people are

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choosing to ignore their thirst because they don't want to get

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up to go pee in the middle of their workday. You know, where

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we're ignoring it we have to work harder and harder and and

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you know, it's it's a problem.

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So what from this new world environment is one of the things

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that drains your water the most? That I'm sorry that what drains

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the water the most? You know, where you feel like you get the

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most dehydrated because of the fluorescent light or the air

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condition or what what do you think makes you the most you

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hydrated?

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You know, I'm not sure but I think the first thing that comes

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to my mind I live in New York City. And if you've you know

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it's funny because people think summertime is more dehydrating

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than than wintertime because we're sweating and we're hot. I

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think living in New York in the wintertime with radiator heats

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that are just sucking the hydration out of the air you

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know, I it's the worst and you don't have a choice because most

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apartments just come with them they no longer have your choice

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of what kind of a You don't even have control over it they turn

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up the heat so high in the wintertime that's just the first

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thing that just sort of came to my mind at winter time and you

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know, everybody's learned to put a pot of water on top of the

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radiator so that it moistens the air a little bit but I think

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yeah, I think indoor and you know fake environments that

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we're living in also with rugs you know all the the carpets and

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and materials and drywall and all this all the synthetic

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things that are going in our environments to are playing a

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big role too. So I couldn't I couldn't say which one is the

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worst. I don't have a

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all together not really good. Well, do you minifiers actually

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work? Yeah. for hydration?

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I think so for sure. Yeah, we even give this this is a little

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bit off the off the topic, but we even give a little tip in the

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book that to have a cup of tea at your desk, a hot cup of tea,

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and not necessarily for drinking for inhaling that vapor. You

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know, because breathing is a hydrating act you're inhaling

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vapor into you know, wet vapor into your lungs. So yeah, so

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definitely air What did you call them? What do they call to air?

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Well, I just said it right. I know I'm blanking. We know what

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it is. You made a fire. Here we go. hydrated today. Yeah. So how

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do we know that we are dehydrated? You know, what are

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the symptoms? I mean, I know having a dry mouth is probably

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or having not peed for 12 hours, good signs. But what else?

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Yeah, so like thirst and dry mouth, you're already too far

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gone. Like you need to stave it off. Before that I put thirst,

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thirst being thirsty last on the list. Meaning you want to start

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you want to hydrate before you feel the thirst you want to get

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above it. So, you know, one of the things I love to this is a

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great thing to look for, we're meant to be to urinate every two

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or three hours during our waking hours. So if you're not getting

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up to pee every two or three hours, you're not hydrating

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enough. But then some other things. fatigue, that afternoon

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fatigue or brain fog that we often feel, and that most of us

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go reach for sugar because we think our blood sugar's

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dropping, I think more often is related to dehydration. So try

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hydrating better before you go reach for that sugary, sort of

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pick me up. So brain fog, fatigue, difficulty

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concentrating, obviously, you know, things like headache and

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joint pain and joint stiffness, muscle aches, those are all

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known to be to be a sign of dehydration. Yeah, those are

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some big ones. Dry skin, dry mucous membranes, we talked

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about those kind of things.

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So these are like the short term dehydration effects. Now what

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about long term if you stay dehydrated, chronically? What

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what's the problem with that?

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Yeah, so there's not a podcast that I'll do without saying this

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next sentence that I hope everybody's listening. Know, I

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want to be special stuff that we got to not say. Learning how to

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hydrate is the single most important thing you can do to

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treat and prevent chronic disease. Hands down, you have to

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start there. Before you go on any nutrition plan any new

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lifestyle Benjamin, you have to learn how to hydrate first. And

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that's because it's it's very clearly associated with certain

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cancers, things like and very specifically colorectal cancer

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and bladder cancers. And other things is heart disease, there

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was a great study, it's in the book that we talked about these

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young men who they purposely dehydrated them, and then took,

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you know, before and after biopsies of their vessels. And

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what they showed is that just with just a 2%, dehydration,

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which we all can very easily get to in the middle of our day,

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that it does the same amount of damage to their endothelial the

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lining of their blood vessels as smoking a cigarette does. Oh my

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goodness, that's amazing. Crazy. So heart disease. It's been

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linked to diabetes, which is crazy. And and we know that it

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is diabetes is is rampant, and it's on the rise. And while we

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may be living longer, we certainly aren't living

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healthier. And that living longer is changing because we've

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now had a little bit of a dip not because of COVID or anything

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but in the past few years, our life expectancy is not getting

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any any longer. But But chronic diseases on the rise and

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diabetes is up there with with a huge cause of chronic illness

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and hydration first step and treating even diabetes and so

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much so that in this past year, this is not in the book, because

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it was published after this, that there is a study as a very

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small study. It was an animal study, but it was the first of

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its kind that said water may be a treatment for metabolic

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syndrome, just by treating water. You could be treating

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metabolic syndrome, which is pre diabetes. And, and then in you

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know because of diabetes and the next step and with a shared

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pathology of diabetes is Alzheimer's. Hydration is linked

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D high chronic low grade dehydration is linked to

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Alzheimer's disease as well.

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And why is it not taught more in medical school? I mean, I

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certainly not heard about it when I was in medical school

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hydration or Yeah, why is nutrition barely taught in

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medical school? You know, I wish I had an answer. It's a maybe

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it's too simple. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know we need

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to talk about the problem is I mean, I think the real problem

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is is that we don't have a way of measuring it. We don't have a

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way of measuring this simple low grade chronic dehydration. I

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wish there was a simple blood test or a simple, you know,

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measurement that you can take. We don't Have one. So going back

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to what I just said, right in the beginning, we need to all

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live in our bodies know what it feels like to be perfectly, you

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know, optimally hydrated and stay on top of it all the time.

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Yes. Now, the problem is that pretty much when everyone then

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says, well, though, you just gonna have six glasses of water

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or whatever the number is, but you actually say that's not what

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optimal hydration is about.

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No, no. And in fact, that's the tagline for the book eight

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glasses a day is not the way so much like the food pyramid if

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you remember, you know, the, the the original food pyramid that

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was never really studied, right? Originally, it was it was a

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bunch of nutritionists sitting around saying, well, we think

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that, you know, meat should be at the top of the food pyramid.

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So eat very little meat. And at the bottom is eat all the carbs.

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You want lots of grains and pasta and breads, you know? And

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then we now know that's probably not the best way to eat and, but

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that was never really studied so much like the food pyramid, that

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eight glasses a day it was never really studied and never comes

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from nowhere. And think about how, how can you tell a five

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foot two, you know, mother to hydrate the same as a six foot

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four pro athlete, they both need to drink eight glasses a day.

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It's crazy. It makes no sense. And I just I'm here to say that

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unfortunately, there is not one. There's no good number for me to

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give you if you twisted my arm and said I need a number I need

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to know how much to drink. Then I will say okay, well, a little

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bit better is drink half your weight in ounces. half your

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weight in ounces. Yeah, I don't know where you are you in France

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in French. So give me this in later. Okay, no problem. Okay.

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But that is a that is definitely a better talking about pounds or

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kilos. Doesn't matter. Oh, yeah. No, it doesn't. Well, because

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the allowances you would wait, Okay, got it. Right. Right.

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Okay, so that's interesting. Wow. All right. You know, the

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questions a lot of I'm sorry,

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yes. But I want to say even that, think about this for a

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second. Let's say I you know, I say somebody who is you know, an

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athlete sweats a lot during the day, you know, is running

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around, that still may not even be enough for them or you I know

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because I do a lot of you know ketogenic diets. If you've ever

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gone on a ketogenic diet, it's very it's it's it acts as a

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diuretic, you're peeing a lot. So I would even say people who

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are on a keto diet, they need to drink three quarters of your

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weight in ounces, and much higher number. But a simple rule

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of thumb if you had to get it out of me, I'd say start with a

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half your weight in ounces. Okay,

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so give me an example. So what's let's say I am weighing 190

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pounds so that would be in ounces then

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80 ounces of that is a lot Wow. Yeah, but but that does not take

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into account what you're eating. Okay, so so it may not be that

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that's why that's why no nope, none of those numbers of how

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much water I should drink is great. You know, if I know there

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are days that I drink one glass of water a day I do it first

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thing in the morning, and then I have a great lunch a really

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juicy salad with you know, lots of vegetables and maybe some

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blueberries in there and then I have a great dinner a really

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healthy dinner of just some fish and more vegetables and maybe

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even have a green smoothie throughout the during the day.

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And I'm feeling fantastic I don't need to drink anymore.

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There are some people can get away with drinking one glass of

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water but but you have to know what that is and and you have to

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include food which is really the impetus of writing the book so

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it's it's about eating your water and and eating more. And

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the way to do that is by eating more more plants and vegetables

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and and drinking green smoothies, basically blended

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greens with water and adding some electrolytes and minerals

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into your into your fluid content by just by like maybe a

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little your first class of morning with a squeeze of lemon

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and a little pinch of salt, Real Salt that has the full range of

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minerals that helps structure your water, which we can talk

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about. Yes,

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absolutely. But before we go there, why is food better than

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actually drinking water? I mean, is it because in food, the water

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in itself has a different structure already or

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absolutely does. So we wrote the book based on you know, there's

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so much research based on Dr. Gerald Pollock's work he wrote,

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he discovered that there's a new phase of water that exists which

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was mind blowing to me. We know that water exists is liquid ice

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and vapor. We've always known that Now they're telling us

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there's a whole new phase of water. And he calls it easy

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water, we call it structured water or gel water, there's lots

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of different ordered waters another name for it, there's a

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bunch of different names for it. But it's this other phase of

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water. And it literally is how those water molecules, those h2o

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molecules, how they layer upon each other. And it's in that

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layering that they start to share electrons. And, and there

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are certain things that can help create more of that structured

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water in the body in the body, sunlight being one of them, or

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actually, any light really does it sunlight does it were really

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good. And infrared light does it the best, far infrared, even

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near infrared. So so we need light, we need water and greens,

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chlorophyll help structure water as well. So it's and then the

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other thing is in nature, that's how water exists. You look at

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cucumbers, look at a cucumber seed, you know, inside the

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cucumber, it's surrounded by gel water there is there it's loaded

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with gel water. So it's believed that it's in that form. That's

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what's found in nature. And it's also in that form. That's what's

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found in our bodies and ourselves within ourselves.

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intracellularly. So the idea of eating your water, it helps

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structure the water, it helps get it into the cells and keep

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it into your cells longer. One of the ways that you can

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experiment with this or or even know it for yourself is think

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about how many times you've said to yourself, I've been drinking

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water all day long, I can't quench my thirst, I can't, I

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can't satiate my thirst. And then try the same, you know, the

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same experiment where instead of you know, maybe adding some some

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a green smoothie and not having to drink so much water or adding

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more plants to your diet. Watermelon, you know, watermelon

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is so much more quenching to your thirst than just drinking

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plain bulk water. Because it's structured.

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And as a structured water than get really structured into our

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system, what does it get first into another form like liquid

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and then it gets restructured? Do we know that?

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We don't know that? That's it's a really great, great question.

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We don't know that. And you know, that's where the clinical

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sort of experimenting with yourself and trying on knowing

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what what it feels like to be properly hydrated, falls into

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place.

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I love to be my own experiment. I think that's great. Yes. So

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I'm gonna do it. Now one of the things that I really learned

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last time where the magic of these chia seeds and I just felt

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like wow, since ever, then that is a form of hydrating yourself

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without having to drink a lot. So talk a little bit about those

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and how they where you can find out about those.

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So there's a fantastic book called Born to Run. I'm gonna

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blank on the author's name Born to Run any runner who's knows

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this book. It's a fabulous book. And he talks about this tribe of

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desert dwellers. the Tarahumara Tarahumara tribe, I believe

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they're in somewhere in Mexico, and they're elite distance

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runners, and they do it for fun. 50 mile marathons for fun, and

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they run they they run with chia seeds, and they drink very

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little water and they were and their chia seeds sustain them

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because it holds on to that water, it acts like a sponge. It

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helps absorb that water better. That was the original how it

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sort of all came to be. And then when you when you think about

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it, you if anybody ever has ever made a chia pudding, where you

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put water or let's say coconut water with chia seeds, they

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plump up, they create, literally a jelly like substance around

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them. So they're incredibly hydrating, and they hold on to

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that hydrating. The other thing about chia seeds is that they're

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loaded with omega three that are parent omega three fatty acids,

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which we need our a la alpha linoleic acid, we need, you

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know, that's very important for our cell membranes. And that's

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important there are these, all of our cell membranes are

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surrounded in fat. We have a whole chapter on fat, which is

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sort of an outlier, an outlier of a chapter, but it is a

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passion of mine because we were not healthy if we don't have

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good healthy fats in our diet. You as a cardiologist, I'm

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assuming also a little bit Well, yeah,

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and I also feel like fat is so has such a bad reputation and

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it's so important at the same time. So how do you then TSH

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just one or two spoons a little water and wait until they are

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crawling up and then you check them?

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So there's a couple there's a couple different ways you could

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throw them right in your smoothie. You can make chia

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puddings, there's 1000 recipes online for for chia pudding. So

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you can make really simple ones. Usually it's I do two

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tablespoons in a little like ramekin with whatever kind of I

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usually use a plant. You know, some people use if you're on a

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keto diet, they use heavy cream, and it's an unbelievably

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delicious dessert and you could do some, you know, maple syrup

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or some fruit, you could throw some shaved almonds on there,

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make a delicious dessert with it. Just throw it in your

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smoothie. There is one little caveat to that there are there

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are some people that can be sensitive to the lectins in chia

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seeds, much like the lectins in beans and that kind of thing and

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other legumes so though you may want to soak them overnight and

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just plain water and then spoon it out and put it in your in

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your smoothie or in your you can throw them on your salad. You

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could eat raw chia seeds on your salad too much like you would

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throw flax seeds on your salad too. There's lots of ways chia

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seeds are Yeah, they've become a bit of a trend and they're

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there's so much nice recipes online for them.

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Now do you find it better to drink soda and coffee and tea

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than drinking? Not at all or should people in general just

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not do that stuff?

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Okay, so what I am hoping that when you say soda you been

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bubbly water like seltzer water. Oh, no, no, no, no, I'm eating

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the good stuff. All that has different colors to it. Yeah,

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soda needs to go sorry. Soda is horrible. bubbly water like

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mineral water. I love there's some new new brands out there.

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There's a brand that that got me off of Diet Coke. I used to be a

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diet coke fiend for my whole life tab first when I was a

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little kid and then we got onto Diet Coke. And there's a brand

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called spindrift that has it's basically just flavored seltzer

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water with with like grapefruit and nothing bad in it. Zero

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carbs. It's that's how I got off of Diet Coke. So, yeah, and it's

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Yeah, so sodas, not good. There's all kinds of crap in

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there that needs to get rid of and especially diet soda, I

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think is probably even worse than regular soda, you know,

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between regular sugar and I think that the fake sweeteners

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are probably going to turn out we're gonna learn that are far

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worse for us than even regular sugar. Not that you should be

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eating all that regular sugar and soda, coffee and tea though

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that's a different story. And I find this is always I always get

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like the yay that we've done some research and that anything

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under four cups of coffee a day is not a diuretic, so So yeah,

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we can do and I don't know the equivalent of how much tea that

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is because tea is less caffeine. But I wanted to say something

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about that if I were to drink four cups of coffee a day I

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would be a complete nervous wreck. Like I can't handle that

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much caffeine, caffeine is a drug and people need to know

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what their you know what their their stress point is for that.

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So I'm not I'm not advocating for cups of coffee a day for

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most people. But from a hydration standpoint, it's okay.

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From a from a caffeine standpoint may not be okay for

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somebody people really directly affects your your adrenals that

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kind of thing. So, I think it's a little excessive and anything

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above that I think is excessive anyway, but coffee, herbal tea,

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you can have as much herbal tea as you want in a day. That's

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great.

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So when I have my little four o'clock dip, I can have a coffee

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and do two good things I hydrate myself and give myself a little

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caffeine that Thank You made my day well you know one of the

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things that a lot of people struggle with is drinking in the

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evenings the Hannah done with a day they feel like okay, I guess

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it's gonna hydrate myself and then there is a problem with

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going four or five times a night to the bathroom. So is there

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anything that you would say people can do that prevents this

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from happening and still allows you to hydrate?

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Yeah, so you have to play around with it you know we lose as we

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get older we lose our ability to make a hormone called ADH

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antidiuretic hormone right? So that is a known thing as we get

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older. That's why as we get older we get up more in the

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middle of the night to go pee. So it's you have to sort of

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weigh out what like you said hydrating better helps you

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sleep. It's it's incredibly individualized. I do think that

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by adding some chia to maybe that after that late night tea

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cup of tea or something herbal tea could help hold on to that

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water a little bit longer so that you're not having to get up

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but you're going to have to experiment there. There are some

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people who just period can't eat it can't drink much after 7pm or

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else they're you know, seven, eight o'clock. They're up in

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peeing all night you know or a couple times a night and if

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you're somebody like me if I wake up to pee then I have a

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very hard time falling back to sleep. So you have to you have

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to find what works for you. I don't have a great answer for it

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unfortunately is

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hydrating food slower in that regard than drinking pure water

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and

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I definitely think so. Absolutely think so. So salad

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would be maybe a good alternative to just drinking

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glasses,

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strawberries, some berries or something could be a nice little

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hydrating snack. A peach you know a plum could be a more

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hydrating thing for you but instead of drinking so much

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liquid.

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So has your work about hydration changed your life has improved

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it 100%

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Yeah, yeah, it's a in so many ways. I mean, let alone from the

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joy that I get out of teaching people how to hydrate and lay

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people and seeing the dramatic changes in such a short period

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of time, it literally takes one day, this is not something you

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have to do, and, and go on a diet for three months before you

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see the effects of it, you will notice that an effect in one

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day, so let alone that's, you know, that is a whole nother

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story. But yeah, hydration is, you know, I am somebody who with

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diet. I'm not a bio hacking doctor. So I'm not somebody

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who's like, or I'm not, and I'm not a I'm not a personal

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trainer. So I'm not like you have to be 100% if you you know,

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go go go, you got to, you got to, we're gonna be a sticklers

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on your diet, I do subscribe to that 8020 rule with diet, right?

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So if you give me 80% you're gonna see benefit from going on

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a low carb diet or, for the most part, for the most part. With

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hydration though, it's something that I found that it is

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something day in and day out, you have to be on top of. And

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that is the one thing like and it's not that hard. It's just

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not hard. It's not necessarily even like I said, drinking more

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and more water. It's about making your dinner plate 75%

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vegetables, you know, cook you know, how about cooking more

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than one vegetable for dinner, one green vegetable, make a few

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vegetables for dinner, fill up on vegetables, have a little bit

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of meat have a little bit of, of grains, if you're if you're

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eating grains, you know, so for me, it just it took so much off

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of my beating myself up, you know, with with diet and and and

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now just it made my life easier, better, I move better. I feel

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better, as as I've seen in so many other people as well.

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Wow, that's very encouraging. And it's so nice that something

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can actually be easy. Because a lot of things just feel like oh

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my god, Mount Everest to climb and flip flops. So this is

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really nice that you actually offer something as simple

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solution to feel dramatically better in a short amount of

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time. Who can offer that? Thank you very much for that. Now how

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can people find out more about you and your work and your book

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and all the good stuff?

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My website probably best is www.dr dana Cohen calm Dr. Dana

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Cohen calm. The book is called quench it's found everywhere

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books are sold Amazon. It's not in French. It's in six other

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languages, though it's in Japanese and German and Italian

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and Spanish and Portuguese. Well, that's a problem. I know

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we got to get through to get to this point.

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Sure. Okay, so does there any last advice that you would like

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to give people that you know, still feel like maybe I don't

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know about that hydration? What do you think like they could

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just get started with Okay,

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I'm gonna give to two quick things. First thing every

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morning, wake up, drink eight to 16 ounces of water with a little

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squeeze of lemon and a pinch of sea salt. Start there. And then

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the second thing is and this is a little bit of a bigger ask but

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but not so much because it's it is a it's a craze, to have one

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green smoothie a day. So a green smoothie is blended vegetables

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in a in a blender with water and then whatever else you want to

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put in there meaning what if you want to put a little fruit for

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flavor if you want to put a little chia seeds you want to

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put a lemon and ginger go ahead and do that but not a milkshake.

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I'm not talking about yogurt and an other milks and protein

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powder. That's a meal. This is a green smoothie. So try to keep

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it light in the sugar drink you know, but but heavy on green

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vegetables like spinach, chard, celery, try doing that if you've

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never done that before it will change your life.

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I love green smoothies I have to say absolutely. And it does keep

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you going for a long time. It's definitely great sustenance.

Unknown: 00:29:12

Well, fantastic suggestions. And thank you so much for coming

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back and I'll get you back again because this is such great

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information. It's so important and especially now that the

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summer is almost over.

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It's it's gonna have to be at your studio in France.

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If we can do that at any time. Come over and then we can

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translate that book for you. Okay, thank you very much. Take

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care.

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Bye bye. Well, this