Busting myths about hydration

Life Kit

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Do you really need to drink eight glasses of water a day? Can drinking water help you lose weight? Does coffee dehydrate you? Experts explain the science of hydration. This episode originally published September 22, 2022.

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0:23.5	You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.
0:28.4	Hey everybody, it's Mariel.
0:30.7	How much water do you drink in a day?
0:33.4	Eight glasses? Several massive bottles worth?
0:37.2	Or do you feel like you're lucky if you even get a
0:39.4	tiny glass down the hatch? No matter how much water you drink, it seems like we should
0:44.7	always be drinking more, right? That appears to be the message that we're in a dehydration
0:49.3	epidemic. I don't know about you, but I have heard on social media and on the news and from celebrities,
0:56.0	like, just drink more water. It's a magical cure for everything.
0:59.9	Is water the fountain of youth? We've all been chugging it all morning because...
1:05.5	A new study says a key to shedding those extra pounds could be as simple as having two cups of water before meals.
1:14.4	But it's the best thing for your hair, your skin, your nails, and it's free.
1:18.5	Water. You can talk more about all of the benefits, but for me, it just feels good.
1:23.7	The trouble is you actually can have too much water.
1:27.8	And too much water can be just as deadly as too little.
1:32.0	So how much water should you be drinking?
1:34.6	That's something the former host of NPR's shortwave, Aaron Scott, looked into.
1:39.0	On this episode of Life Kit, busting hydration myths.
1:42.4	Shortwave host Emily Kwong talks with Aaron Scott about his reporting
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