Get Nutrition to Your Hair

  How drinking water helps build healthy hair and helps fight COVID-19. Your hair follicles need water, oxygen and nutrients to produce a great strand of hair. If you're well hydrated, your hair follicles get all the building materials they need to create a thick, strong, well hydrated strand of hair.

  If you're dehydrated, your hair follicles get less water, oxygen and nutrients to build a strand of hair with and can only build a thin weak dry strand of hair.

  If you're really dehydrated, your hair follicles don't even get enough to build a hair. So when you naturally shed a hair, it can't be replaced and that space on your head is empty.

  To demonstrate this, here you can see a bunch of water, oxygen and nutrients that help build a strong strand of hair. When there is less of these building materials your hair follicle can only create a thin piece of hair. And when there's no building materials, your hair follicle is empty because it can't even build a strand of hair.

  When you're dehydrated some hair follicles will be able to build a really thin strand of hair, while others won't even be able to build a hair so you get a combination of thin hair and thinning hair on your head.

Your Body's Survival Priorities

  When you're dehydrated, your body doesn't have enough water to make enough blood and goes into survival mode. Your body prioritizes where to send blood carrying oxygen and nutrients for its survival. Your body's top priority is getting blood, oxygen and nutrients to your brain first, followed by your heart, kidneys, liver and other organs.

  When you're dehydrated, your hair is very low on your body's survival priority list, so it gets very little of the blood and nutrients and water that the hair follicles need to build great hair. When your hair follicles get a reduced amount of building materials, they barely have enough to create a hair. With less blood, nutrients and water they can only create weak, dry, thin, brittle hair.

  Drinking water helps your body create enough blood which increases the amount of blood, oxygen, water and nutrients that your hair follicles receive to make new hair. This helps your hair follicles create thick, shiny, well hydrated, strong strands of hair.

  Drinking Water also helps prevent thinning hair. When you naturally shed hair and it falls out it is normally replaced with a new hair. If you are really dehydrated, when a hair falls out and your hair follicle doesn't have enough blood, oxygen and nutrients to create a new hair, the hair on your head looks and is thinner.

  Drinking water helps your hair follicles receive all the blood, oxygen, nutrients and water that they need to create a new hair so when you naturally shed a hair, it can replace that hair with a new hair. Lack of water can also cause the skin on your head to be dry and flake causing dandruff as well.

  You can put conditioners on thin, dry, brittle hair to try to hydrate it but drinking water to build thick, strong, well hydrated, shiny hair should be your first step to get great hair.

Feel Fuller and Eat Less

  The water before food diet is easy to do. Simply drink water before each meal. When you drink a glass of water 30 minutes before a meal it increases your metabolism by 30%, helps fill your stomach and decreases your appetite to help you lose weight.

  One of the hardest things with weight loss is keeping the weight off. Most diets have food restrictions that are hard to maintain. Drinking water before a meal is an easy way to restrict the amount of food you are eating.

  The water before food diet can be used by itself with your normal meals. It can also be used with other diet programs.

  Here you can see two glass containers representing your stomach that hold 32 ounces, which is generally what your stomach holds with food in it.

  The first container is empty and can hold 32 ounces of food. When we pour a 16 ounce glass of water in the second container, it fills it up halfway leaving room for only 16 ounces of food.

  Drinking water before a meal will help you feel fuller faster and is an easy way to restrict food intake. It also helps provide your body with the water it needs during the day. So drinking water helps with both weight loss and hydration.

  Your body can't tell the difference between hunger and thirst. Sometimes when you're hungry, you may actually be thirsty. Try drinking a cup of water first and see if that works. If you're still hungry, you can eat food, but you'll probably eat less food if you drank a cup of water first.

  Dehydration causes sugar cravings, which can cause you to want sugary foods and drinks. Drinking water helps reduce your sugar cravings which helps with weight loss. Sometimes people drink more calories than they eat. You may want to consider adding a healthy water flavoring to your water to replace soft drinks.

  Your metabolism is a major factor in weight loss and uses about two thirds of your daily calories to keep your body working. Your heart pumps 2000 gallons of blood a day, which burns calories as well as your other body functions that burn calories too.

  Drinking a glass of water can increase your metabolism from 10 to 30% for close to an hour. Your body needs water to function and if it doesn't get enough water, it slows down which slows down your metabolism.

  When your body is dehydrated, it is harder for it to burn fat. Water helps your body break down fat and burn calories. Not drinking enough water affects your muscles ability to burn calories as well. The growth hormone HGH is a great fat burner, but dehydration lowers your body's production of it, which hurts your weight loss.

  When your body is dehydrated it creates stress on all the organs in the body, which stresses the brain, which you increases production of cortisol. Cortisol hurts weight loss. Dehydration can cause blood sugar to rise, which leads to insulin resistance, which can hurt your weight loss.

  Water helps fight cellulite. Dehydration contributes to larger lumps of cellulite. Drinking water helps remove toxins that can create fat deposits that gather under your skin. Drinking a glass of water in the morning, at noon and in the late afternoon will help hydrate your body and help you lose weight. Drinking water is an important foundational part of any weight loss program.

Less Joint Pain & Stronger Muscles

  How drinking water helps your joints and muscles and helps fight COVID-19. How drinking water helps lubricate and cushion your joints. The cartilage in your joints is 70 to 80% water. If you don't drink enough water, you become dehydrated and your cartilage dries out causing friction and pain as well as reducing your cartilage's ability to cushion.

  Water is also needed for synovial fluid which helps lubricate and cushion your joints and cartilage. Synovial fluid lubricates your joints to reduce the friction so they can slide easier for less wear.

  When you're dehydrated your body doesn't have enough water to make enough synovial fluid to lubricate your joints. Lack of synovial fluid can cause friction between your bones which causes wear and pain.

  Drinking water helps relieve back and neck pain. There are jelly like disks made mainly of water in between the 24 bones in your back that cushion them. Dehydration dries out these discs which reduces their ability to cushion and can cause back and neck pain. Dehydration also contributes to hip pain.

  Dehydrated joints and cartilage are also more easily damaged and more easily injured. Well hydrated cartilage is wetter so it can slide easier with less friction to wear it down, which can also help it slide instead of tearing. When cartilage is dehydrated, it is dry with increased stiffness, less flexibility and can tear more easily.

  There is more wear and tear with dehydrated, dry cartilage. Your body's survival response to dehydration is to send water to the most important organs first, and so your brain heart, lungs, liver and kidneys and other really important organs get it first and then the areas that aren't as critical to immediate survival end up getting less water.

  This means a little dehydration can have a big impact on your cartilage as they are lower on your body's survival response list. Drinking water is an easy way to help keep your joints and cartilage's healthy.

  How hydration helps muscle strength. Your muscles are 79% water and will be able to work stronger longer if they are well hydrated. Dehydration reduces the flow of blood, nutrients and electrolytes to your muscles, making them weaker.

  When your body is 3% dehydrated, it can reduce your muscle performance by 10%. When you feel thirsty, you're already two to 3% dehydrated so it's easy to become that dehydrated and lose that much muscle performance. Drinking water to hydrate your muscles will also increase your muscles endurance.

  Dehydration can cause muscle fatigue. When muscles are exhausted it is often because they are dehydrated. Your muscles are also more susceptible to injury when they are dehydrated. Dry muscles tear easier.

  Dehydration can also reduce your workout. When working out dehydration decreases the number of repetitions you can do. Dehydrated muscles also have a slower recovery after working out and slower recovery after a muscle injury. If you're dehydrated your muscles cramp and it hurts.

  Not enough water can also contribute to muscle aches. If you're feeling muscle aches or pain, dehydration magnifies that pain. When your brain is dehydrated, it can contribute to headaches as well.

  Drinking water helps your athletic performance. Drinking water to help hydrate your muscles will help you be stronger during competition, as well as having more endurance at the end of the game or competition.

Drinking water to hydrate your muscles and joint cartilage can help you have less severe injuries as well as recover faster. You want to continually hydrate drinking water the days before the competition as well as the date of the competition. You also want to hydrate during the competition if you can.

  Drinking water takes time to get into your system to hydrate your body. If you're a coach and want a winning season, drinking water can give your players an edge by keeping your team hydrated during the season, even during practice.

  The combination of a faster brain, stronger muscles and more endurance by drinking water can help you get more wins.

You Need Water to Process Food

  How drinking water helps your digestive system and helps fight COVID-19. Your digestive system is important to your survival. Your body needs nutrients to survive. You need water to be able to produce enough saliva and stomach acid to process the food you eat as well as carry it through the intestines and remove the waste.

  Dehydration can cause serious problems to your digestive system. Drinking water helps keep your stomach and digestive system healthy. The saliva your mouth produces every time you chew is the first step in the digestion process. Saliva helps make food wet and easier to swallow, as well as beginning to digest some starches. Saliva is 98% water. So drinking water is important to help your body produce enough saliva.

  A lot of people think that acid reflux is when your stomach has too much stomach acid and actually the opposite is true. Acid reflux is caused by too little stomach acid. When you're dehydrated, your body doesn't have enough water to make enough stomach acid, which makes it harder for it to digest food.

  If you have food in your stomach and not enough stomach acid to process it, it will send it back up into your throat. When it sends the food up, some of the stomach acid will go with the food causing acid reflux. To demonstrate this we have a glass jar with food and colored water to represent stomach acid. The Jar holds 32 ounces, which is about the size of your stomach with food in it.

  In this first jar, you can see we have the food and we have plenty of stomach acid to process it. In this second photo you can see the jar has food in it but a much lower level of stomach acid which doesn't even cover the amount of the food so it's going to have a much harder time processing it.

  Drinking enough water so your body can produce enough stomach acid will help your digestive system process food and help you avoid acid reflux.

  75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated, which can cause damage throughout the digestive system. Drinking water to stay hydrated can help heal your digestive system.

  I talked with a person who after four months of drinking water to help keep their body hydrated and help their digestive system heal, were able to eat things that they couldn't before, including an increased tolerance for gluten.

  Your body needs water to help your intestines absorb nutrients and deliver them to the rest of your body. Water helps the mucosal lining and villi in your small intestine absorb nutrients. Without water, the mucus and villi lining your small intestine can be damaged.

  Water is also needed to create blood to carry the nutrients throughout your body. Your digestive system needs water to get rid of waste, which leaves your body as pee or poop. Your kidneys need water to help them process waste and toxins and remove them from your body when you pee.

  Your intestines need water to help create a soft stool or turd that can easily pass out of your body. When you're dehydrated there is not enough water so the stool is dry and hard and harder to pass. Drinking water is an easy way to help keep your digestive system healthy.

Kidneys & Liver Need Water to Process Waste

  If you are dehydrated, your kidneys don't have the water they need to process and carry the toxins and waste out of your body. If your kidneys get plugged up and they fail, toxic waste can be stuck in your body, reducing your health and your ability to fight off infections. Drinking water helps your kidneys function.

  Each day your kidneys filter about 40 gallons of fluids in your body. Your kidneys then get rid of about two quarts of waste and fluid they filter out each day when you pee. When kidneys can't function like they should, instead of filtering the waste it is sent back into your body where it builds up causing problems inside your body.

  Lack of water can also cause kidney stones. When your body gets dehydrated, your urine can become concentrated and the excess minerals in it can form a crystal formation which as it gets larger becomes a kidney stone. Kidney stones can get up to the size of a golf ball, are very painful and you want to avoid them. Drinking water helps you avoid kidney stones. Not drinking enough water can also contribute to urinary tract infections, which can be painful as well.

  Dehydration causes low blood level, which can cause an increase in vasopressin, which constricts blood vessels and raises blood pressure, which isn't good for your heart. It also isn't good for your kidneys and liver as vasopressin tells your kidneys to retain water and the liver to produce blood sugar.

  If you have diabetes, your kidneys can become overworked, trying to process the extra sugar in your blood and excess sugar must be peed out, which can lead to dehydration. Dehydration can also make your bladder feel irritated, which can make you feel the need to pee more urgently and frequently.

  Kidneys also help control blood pressure, make red blood cells, help keep your bones strong and help regulate electrolytes so you want to keep your kidneys healthy. Water is needed to help your kidneys function as they should to remove toxins and waste from your body. Drinking water is an easy way to help keep your kidneys healthy.

  Drinking water helps your liver function. Your liver is the largest organ in your body and does about 500 important functions for your body. The blood leaving your stomach and intestines goes into your liver, which processes and filters it. Your liver is like a factory, which processes protein, carbohydrates and fat sent from the digestive system and creates custom fluids for many organs in different parts of your body.

  Your liver is also like a control panel, which controls different systems in your body as well. Your liver also stores vitamins and minerals, as well as helping your immune system. Drinking enough water to stay hydrated is vital to the liver being able to function as it should.

  Dehydration can also cause the bile duct in your liver to contract and form gallstones. Drinking water helps your kidneys and liver stay strong and be able to do their jobs. Your kidneys and liver are vital to your survival and to helping you fight and defeat the COVID-19 virus.

  Drinking water helps your kidneys and liver and helps fight the COVID-19 virus. The war between your body and the COVID-19 virus leaves broken cells, toxins and waste in your body that need to be cleaned out. Your kidneys need water to help them process and get rid of the toxins and waste that is sent to them to dispose of.

Dehydration Stresses the Brain

 How drinking water helps your brain and helps fight the stress and fatigue from COVID-19. Dehydration damages organs and create stress. Dehydration physically stresses all the organs in your body, causing emotional stress in your brain as it worries about your organs and your body's survival. This added stress can lead to anxiety, feeling moody, headaches and depression.

  Drinking water helps hydrate the body so all the organs are doing good which helps the brain to feel good. Drinking water is one of the easiest ways to reduce stress in your life.

  I've talked to people who've started drinking water and they love the results. When things happen like a computer crashing, spilling something in the kitchen, or just something bad happens, instead of getting angry, now their reaction is a short laugh and a smile. They find themselves being more relaxed and more confident.

  Reducing your overall stress level will have a positive effect on your relationships with your family, friends, coworkers, and new people that you meet. In addition to adults, studies show that children are often dehydrated, which can lead them to act out as well as feeling depressed.

  Drinking water to stay well hydrated can help children deal with things better. Parents need to take care of themselves and their children. Drinking water can help you feel better and have more patience with your children.

  Dehydration can also cause fatigue, and low energy. Dehydration causes a lower blood level so your brain may be getting less blood and oxygen, as well as having to ration the reduced blood level to the most important organs, which lowers their ability to function.

  Less blood, oxygen and nutrients to your brain can cause your body to feel tired, fatigue, and low energy. If you feel like you could use more energy, try drinking some water. It does make a difference.

  1% dehydration equals 5% loss of brain power. Even a mild amount of dehydration can affect your mood and brain. If you are 1% dehydrated, you lose 5% of your brains processing power. If you are 5% dehydrated, you lose 25% of your brain's processing power, hurting your ability to think and make decisions.

  It's harder to think when you are dehydrated. Studies show that when you feel thirsty, you may already be 2 to 3% dehydrated, which means your brain is working at a 10 to 15% reduction, inability to think as well as affecting your mood.

  If you work in a job that requires thinking, drinking water so you brain is functioning at its best processing power really helps.

  If you're an athlete, drinking water helps your brain calculate quickly. Calculating the distance and angle to the basket or goal, or your opponent's move and your response faster can help you win.

  If you're a coach who wants a winning season, keep your team hydrated even during practice. If you play video games, drinking water makes your brain faster with stronger processing power.

  If you're a student, drinking water helps increase your ability to concentrate and your memory. When I feel my brain getting a little fuzzy, I drink some water and it helps. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. A study shows that 75% of Americans don't drink enough water every day, which leaves their bodies in a constant state of stress. This constant stress from lack of water hurts your immune system and your body's ability to defend itself from disease.

  As a survival response to stress your adrenal glands produce cortisol. Chronic dehydration can create chronic stress, which can wear out your adrenal glands by making them continuously produce cortisol, which can lower your immune system and make you more susceptible to inflammation and disease. Stress also lowers your white blood cells, which your body needs to fight viruses like the COVID-19 virus.

  Let's take a look at three different types of stress. Baseline stress, daily stress, and dehydration stress. Baseline stress is stress from the past that you haven't let go of which could be from days, months, or even years ago. The amount of baseline stress will be different from person to person.

  Daily stress are things that happen during your day like your car not starting, having somebody be rude to you or getting into an argument. Baseline stress and daily stress can add up. The more bad things that happen, the more upset you can become.

  When we get really upset, it is often not just about what just happened, but everything that happened before it as well. For baseline stress there are psychological skills you can learn to help you go through your past to remove things you no longer want to be angry about.

It is kind of like moving and deciding what you want to take with you moving forward with your life and what you want to leave behind. Sometimes there are things you have kept through past moves, that you're finally ready to get rid of. Getting rid of anger from your past can feel really good.

  For daily stress there are also skills you can learn to help you deal with things during your day as they happen to help keep your stress level lower. Two of the best skills are learning how to let things go and looking for things to be thankful for.

  Dehydration stress happens when your body becomes dehydrated and all the fluids in your body are too low, which stresses your body and every organ in it. When you are dehydrated it stresses your heart, your lungs, your digestive system, your kidneys and liver and your brain.

  This physical stress on your body creates emotional stress which can lead to depression and anxiety as well as making you feel lethargic and low energy. Not drinking enough water adds dehydration stress to your baseline and daily stress. While your baseline and daily stress takes skills to handle, drinking water is an easy solution to dehydration stress.

  Drinking Water three times a day to replace water your body loses during the day is a great way to fight dehydration stress. With increased exercise activity or heat, you may be sweating more, so you may need to add some more water for that as well.

  Paying attention to your body's fluid levels and staying well hydrated will help keep your stress levels down and help you feel happier, more relaxed and confident. Drinking a glass of water in the morning, at noon, and in the late afternoon or evening will help hydrate your body and help keep your brain healthy and happy.