Drinking excess water will do more harm than good. I wanted to do a video based on this amazing book

It's called Water Log by Tim Nokes, PhD. This guy is the authority in sports medicine. He has his PhD

Lakshia's is MD and PhD in

Exercise physiology and what he talks about in this book is

Fascinating because it goes completely against what we've been taught that you have to drink a class as a water every single day and

especially if you're exercising you have to drink a lot of fluid to prevent dehydration

Well, this guy has done the research and he found there's more damage from over-hydration especially when you're

Exercising than dehydration. There's very little research that indicates that dehydration is a problem

But there's some serious research showing the serious side effects of over-hydration or what is called water

Intoxication now if you're doing exercise especially long distance running or amerathons

This information is vital, okay because what happens

When you're drinking excessive amounts of fluid you can deplete your sodium levels, okay?

And what will happen the brain can swell

It puts a tremendous amount of stress on your heart and people have actually died from drinking too much water

The condition is called hyponatremia. I'll put a link down below check it out

So let's say for example you're exercising you want to know if you're over-hydrated, okay?

Well, here are some of the symptoms. Do you have a worsening headache?

Do you have an increased rising temperature even when you stop exercising?

Swelling in the hands and the feet all of these could be indicators that you just drink too much water

So the body has this amazing way of letting you know when you need water, okay?

So you're ready for this are you sitting down if you've checked out check back in right now because this is very important

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