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It's Dr. Gundry and we're going to talk today about the four common mistakes we make while drinking water.

Number one, you can drink too much water and you will actually flush out your electrolytes in doing so.

I can't tell you the number of times I see people who drink a lot of water before we draw their blood in our clinic.

And they do that because their veins are hard to find. But invariably, after drinking a glass of water in the morning, a huge number of my patients will have actually very low sodium and chloride that's salt and potassium levels in their blood.

And many of you know that the vast majority of people who die or collapse during marathons don't die from heart attacks.

They actually die from hyponatremium, low sodium levels. And that's because they're drinking water at all those refill stops rather than water with electrolytes.

So number one, there is such a thing as drinking too much water.

Number two, there's actually never been a study that shows that you should drink eight glasses of water a day.

Apparently, no one ever told gorillas and chimpanzees that they have to drink eight glasses of water a day.

In fact, they don't drink much water at all. Why? Because they actually get most of their water by eating leaves and fruits that contain the water.

And one of the things I try to convince my patients is that if you're eating organic lettuces and organic vegetables,

you're actually using the plants filtration system to get healthy water into you and actually activated water into you.

So think about that the next time you say, oh my gosh, I have to have another glass of water for health.

You're going to lower your electrolytes. You're going to lower the efficiency of your heart pumping.

And it's easier to get it out of a baguette of lettuce than drinking a glass of water.

I frequently see people who are addicted to drinking water and we actually have to have them supplement multiple times a day with salt tablets or electrolyte powders.

Otherwise, they literally faint throughout the day. They won't give up the water and this is the only way we can fix it.

Now, stop drinking carbonated water number two.

Carbonated water actually acidifies the water. Now, for the good news, in Italy by law, carbonated waters have to be pH balanced

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