Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by Dr. Dana Cohen who is an internist for the last 20 years and focuses in natural medicine actually had the distinction of working with Dr. in the past who is certainly a pioneer in the introduction of the benefits of low-carb diets.

And we're going to talk today about dehydration because she wrote a book called Quench.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Hi Doc, thank you for having me.

All right, so what was the motivation to write this book?

Or actually before you go there,

we'll answer that question to the first question

first question is maybe you can elaborate a little bit

on the background information I gave for you

so people know what your perspective and framework is.

So I'm a formally trained MD medical doctor, internal medicine,

and right out of residency I got hired by Dr Atkins and thank God

because he changed the way I thought about medicine I was miserable before that and so

for the past 20 years I've been in private practice in New York City doing integrative

or functional medicine.

Okay, great.

So what motivates to write a quench?

So I've been searching for my book for 20 years and my co-author

Gina Bria came in to see me one day. She works for the Hydration Foundation. She started the

Hydration Foundation. She's an anthropologist, a cultural anthropologist, and was

she did her research on how desert communities hydrate and they certainly don't drink eight glasses of water a day and that was and so when she came in to talk to me I remember thinking

oh she's going to sell me some kind of, you know, ionized water filter, I don't know.

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