Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Hey guys, Dr. Berg here.

Listen, I want to answer this question that I keep getting over and over and over again.

Dr. Berg, should I drink more water to help myself lose weight?

Well the answer is, yes, it's true that water is low in calories and the idea that it'll

fill you up and you'll be less hungry for about a minute until you have to pee at all

out.

Water does not dissolve fat.

They don't mix too well.

So drinking more water is not going to melt your fowd off or help you lose weight.

It's basically going to, you're going to flesh your electrolytes out.

And listen, I'm not against water, okay?

When you thirsty, drink the water, if you're exercising, drink more water.

But what I'm against is over hydration, drinking too much water.

Fortunate about it to drink way beyond what you're thirsty for is really, really bad.

For someone to say that everyone needs a gallon of water a day, it's not quite true.

Because there's some dangers in that.

There's a condition called hyponatremia, which is basically low salt in your blood, low

sodium in your blood.

So when you drink a lot of water, you're flushing out these key electrolytes, potassium, sodium,

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