Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

Dr. Dana Cohen is an internal and integrative medicine physician here in New York City

and the best-selling author of a fascinating book called Quench. And that's what we're going to

talk about today. We're going to cover all things hydration.

Dana, welcome. Thank you for having me.

So, hydration. Huge topic. We don't talk enough about it at the highest level.

Why the subject of hydration for you? Why water? And how do we do it better?

It's a funny story. I worked for Dr. Atkins for right out of residency. So I've always known

the importance of having a platform and writing a book literally for many years. And I've racked

my brains. What could I write my book on? How do I affect the most people? I do a ton of like

hormone replacement and thyroid replacement in my practice. But I didn't want to write another book

on that where you have to go see your doctor get levels checked. And you know, I wanted to really

find what I could affect the most people. And when my co-author came into my office one day to talk

to me about the work of Dr. Gerald Pollock, who's a world-renowned water researcher. She

blew my mind about this idea of there's another phase of water that's being that has been discovered.

And I was like, what are you talking about? Another phase of water. We know that water exists as liquid

ice and vapor. It's the simplest molecule in the world turns out it's not so simple. And when she

started telling me about it, I just looked at her. I said, oh my god, I've been searching for my book.

I know the importance of hydration from my patients. I said, do you want to write this book? She said,

yes. And that's when we really started to dive into the research. And when I committed to it,

I was like, oh my god, what did I get myself into? Because it's way more complicated than I ever

imagined. But it turns out that it is, and I say this in every podcast, the single most important

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