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Welcome to Vibe.

And here's your host, Robin Openshaw.

The great hydration myth, do we really need to drink eight glasses a day?

Hey, I'm Robin OpenShaw. I'm the Green smoothie girl online for 18 years now.

And I ask the questions that you never get from the marketers.

To hear the marketers talk, their product is the cure for

everything, or we just assume certain things are true because we've heard them so many times.

It's the most ubiquitous piece of health advice. Drink eight, eight ounce glasses of water a day.

That's roughly half a gallon. You hear from doctors, dieticians, and even on the

back of cereal boxes. But what if I told you that this sacred rule is less based on hard science

and more on a single misquoted recommendation from over 80 years ago? And what if, like me,

you felt better when you decided to quit the forced water chugging? I quit drinking water all day years ago. And it's not that I don't think

that you're made of water or that you don't lose water and need to replace it. It's that I think

that you get a lot from fruits and vegetables

that is infinitely more usable by the body and that over-drinking water has negative effects,

too. Let's dig deep into the origins of the eight glasses of water rule and confront the counter

narratives about true hydration.

Number one, the ghostly origin of the 8-by-8 rule.

When you try to trace this rule back to a definitive,

modern, evidence-based study, the trail goes cold.

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