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takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

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 that eight 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 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 your cells.

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 to use 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.

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