The Dehydration Energy Drain
Becoming dehydrated is one of the most detrimental things you can do to your health and energy levels. Dehydration can negatively affect your physical and mental health, and it can also be a sign of underlying health conditions.
Dehydration most often occurs when you don’t drink enough water. To combat this, you should always carry bottled water with you. You can use plastic water bottles if you want, or you can get a reusable water bottle.
You should be drinking at least 8, eight-ounce glasses of water a day. This totals 64 oz. You can find 64 oz water bottles, and you can also get a 32 oz water bottle that you refill twice a day.
The size of the water bottle really doesn’t matter, as long as you make sure to drink 64 oz of water throughout your day. When you get dehydrated, your physical health can be severely impacted in many different ways.
Dehydration can cause lethargy, headaches, dizziness, low blood pressure, passing out, fever, faster heart rate, and heatstroke. More serious health problems dehydration can cause include seizures, low blood volume, kidney issues, and death.
Being dehydrated can also take a toll on your mental health. It can cause anxiety, depression, mood swings, problems focusing, memory loss, and hallucinations due to hyponatremia, another symptom of dehydration.
It can also affect your energy levels because you become lethargic and tired due to your muscles and heart becoming weak. Headaches due to dehydration can also keep you awake when you’re trying to sleep, causing a lack of energy.
You don’t have to only drink water to become re-hydrated. There are many ways to hydrate your body aside from drinking at least 64 oz of water per day. You can eat foods that contain higher water levels, such as watermelons, cucumbers, blackberries, celery, lettuce, and soup.
You can drink coconut water, which contains potassium and has energizing qualities to replace energy drinks and coffee, both of which contain caffeine. Caffeine is known to dehydrate you because it’s a diuretic – it causes the body to become deprived of water.
Letting yourself get dehydrated is one of the worst, but the easiest things you can do to yourself. It’s easy to replace water with better tasting, yet dehydrating drinks such as soda. However, you need to hydrate your body and drink the right amount of water in order to be energized and as healthy as possible.
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