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You know, some years ago, I did a video on this whole water myth that everyone needed to drink a certain amount of water or else they're going to be dehydrated.

And it kind of shook up quite a few people because everyone knows they ate glasses of water is like the law. You have to drink at least eight glasses of water because your body is mostly water.

And so that video created a confusion because when you tell a person the opposite theory of what

they're basing this concept of water on, it can

really put someone into a kind of a confusion. So I wanted to do this video to give you some

interesting new points on water in general in its ability to hydrate yourselves. First thing

you need to know is what is hydration?

Is hydration just water in your cells? Actually, no, it's not. How does that water get into the

cell and out of the cell? The water gets in and out of the cell through little channels that

get help with electrolytes.

And electrolytes are like these electrically charged minerals that in different concentrations

inside and outside the cell, you'll get a flow, a certain flow, either going outside the cell

or going inside the cell. And so a truly hydrated cell

has the right amount of electrolytes inside and outside with the right amount of fluid. And a dehydrated

cell is basically an imbalance of electrolytes and fluid. It's not just a lack of water. In fact,

if you drink too much water, you're going to dilute certain electrolytes

and create dehydration in certain parts of your body. There's a condition called hyponotremia.

That means low sodium in the blood. One cause would be you just drank a lot of pure water

without any salt, and now you diluted this sodium

throughout the cells. It's very, very dangerous. You can have inflammation of your brain. You can

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