I’ve been preaching this for quite a while now. If I have to post it again, so be it:
The Struggle
Submitted 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
fishy@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I have a crochet toast holding a sign saying “cook the toast, butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God, life is relentless.”
Same energy lol
Teppa@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Put a runny egg and some avocado on that toast. 👌
brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
One of my favorites: youtu.be/HrBJDvPZf2g
Rooskie91@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
More like “life is a Piss-on” amirite
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve found that once I increased my salt intake (along with my water intake) my brain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, and pee went away.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Electrolytes, it’s what plants crave!
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Your “pee went away”?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Okay, slightly exaggerated. More like I stopped peeing as frequently.
Salt causes water retention.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
How can you not be getting enough salt?? We don’t need that much and it’s in basically everything
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
🤷♂️
Maybe? Maybe not. It’s expensive to test for, and cheaper to treat the symptoms. And I can monitor my vitals myself.
~Finest healthcare in the world!~
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
But if you drink more water, you also need more salt.
SirHamlin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Intake water? Like from the toilet?
titanicx@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Brawndo. It’s got what we crave!
xep@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
Consider also reducing your sugar intake!
Anchorxiety@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I really struggle with this one. I love sugary treats. Chocolate, fizzy drinks, etc.
Venat0r@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
TFW experiencing all the symptoms of addiction to sugar: “I must not be drinking enough water 🤔”
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No u.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Electrolytes, what’s that?
(To the tune of mxpx’s “responsibility, what’s that?”)
reptar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
mxpx
Woah, that takes me back
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
sounds like dehydration
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Me before drinking lots of water: depressed
Me after drinking lots of water: depressed, but hydrated
Monte_Crisco@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
Also, feeling more alert and, therefore, more aware of my depression.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
You should know that almost 100% of people who have started taking dihydrogen monoxide have died and the rest are expected to die.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
TIL resentment and chronic migraines are the same thing
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
I definitely get chronic migraines from my ex, so I think you might be onto something.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Unless you are dehydrated drinking more water is of minimal benefit. Unless you’re replacing other unhealthy drinks with water, but that’s got little to do with the water.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Drinking more water is the most effective way to prevent and manage kidney stones by diluting urine and stopping mineral crystals from clumping together
Rothe@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
It does seem like the “drink more water” propaganda which has gripped the US for many years now, has been an extremely succesful campaign for getting more Americans to lessen their sugary drink intake in favour of water. That is objectively a good thing.
The downside is all the Americans preaching to everyone else in the world on the internet about it, even though most of us already didn’t drink excessive amounts of sugary drinks.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Look up how cells handle oxydation, radicals. More liquid helps.
Btw, the average adult drinks less than recommended.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
- At best, if it as as good as it’s said, it helps your liver, kidneys and bladder by getting rid of noxious substances faster and at lower concentration levels.
- As worst, if it has no benefits at all, you piss more often.
Unlike most “health” trends out there “drink more water” will be very good in the mid and long term if it works and only mildy inconvenient if it doesn’t, so logically it seems worth trying unless you’re in the kind of situation where taking a piss is somehow dangerous.
IMHO, people going for “convenience today” above all else is behind most of the shitty trends in most present day societies, and I don’t just mean it in health terms.
fishy@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I am one of the OG hydro homies and it legit changed my life drinking more water. Skin cleared up (acne wasn’t terrible, but there was almost always some blemish), lost weight (less soda, less hunger in general), reduced stomach issues (helped with getting regular and not binging, just better general gut feeling), no more UTI’s.
I also get to pee like 4 times throughout the day at work which just helps break up the day.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Instant gratification. Why have thing later? Want thing now. Give thing now. Why wait for later?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
my dude, i agree, but you’ve been doing that for what, three years? that doesn’t really seem healthy.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s literally on my clipboard. Zero effort. Sentiment is still the same.
baatliwala@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You post so many comments like that, sounds like you miss your ex and can’t get over 🥀
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
You are not drinking more, the average adult drinks too less, you’re drinking enough.
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Zu wenig auf Englisch ist too little. Less wäre der Komparativ (weniger)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Danke.
Anosyn@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
I see coherent and non-aggressive explanations for (proper) grammar usage, ich freue mich. : >
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I think with a lot of these health trends, it doesn’t take account for the fact that humans are animals.
Animals can’t always guarantee they’ll get enough water, or enough food, or the right kinds of food. Bodies aren’t like a machine that requires specifically calibrated amounts of inputs. Instead if you drink too much you’ll pee out more. If you drink too little your pee will be more concentrated so your body retains more liquid. If you get more nutrients than you need, the extra will be eliminated.
It’s probably true that with many things (except calories) it’s better to get a bit too much rather than too little. Maybe it’s true that for water it’s better to get nearly the maximum rather than slightly more than the midpoint amount. But, it seems unlikely to me.
Napster153@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This has always interested me, especially when I’ve read here and there that issues such as obesity is much more accurate as being a diet problem rather than an exercise problem. Not that the latter doesn’t help at all, certainly.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yeah it’s a lot easier to eat less calories than it is to burn off that many. 100 calories is like a bag of crisps or so (depends on what) but 100 calories is also about 10 minutes of running which is a lot more work than just eating less. Not that you shouldn’t run but if you’re trying to lose weight it has a much bigger impact to stay at a calorie deficit.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I like peeing. Feels good man.
luciferofastora@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Pissing is its own reward
zerobot@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
if you dont drink the pee, that’s your problem, like that you just waste the water
dangercake@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
It’s the ciiiiircle…
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, it’s over hyped.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
… Do you guys not enjoy a good piss?
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
A good piss, sure.
The 4th good piss this morning so, far? No as much. I’m trying to rot my brain here and it’s getting hard to do that when I have to get up and pee every 34 minutes and 23 seconds.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
34 minutes is a good rotation. nice clean kidneys, not gonna have kidney stones
Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
I’m so tired of peeing. I drink the water I apparently need to survive. Then I have to go put the water somewhere else 5 minutes later. I drink water, I wash my hands, I leave, then I need to drink MORE water. Guess where that water ends up? Not in me! I give the water to my body and then like a child it tosses it out and demands more. All hours of the day and all hours of the night no matter what I am doing my life is interrupted by piss and this bullshit.
gesshoku@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I have days where I am also a slave to this dreaded cycle… As others have stated: adding a bit of salt/electrolytes can help. It does for me. And apart from having to pee less, I reckon it is a good idea anyway, because drinking + peeing very much will likely have a negative effect on one’s mineral levels.
Excessive thirst/urination can be a symptom of diabetes. And I am sure there are other ailments related to it, so maybe next time you visit your doctor you might want to mention it. Hope you can get it figured out!
Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
WiredBrain@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
“You know what’s smarter than a brain? 2 million nephrons.”
megopie@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
See the trick is you gotta combine that with eating more fiber!
Then your will piss more and you will poop better.
adminofoz@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
The quality of my poops after eating more fiber is probably one of the things im most proud of but cant tell anyone in normal life.
Kcap@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But, but, it’s 3am and I just drank 40 beers in Tijuana. It must be a water related issue.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If ur constantly peeing ur probably drinking too much water. This is one of those things you don’t really notice when you’re doing it right, but it will drag you down if you are constantly dehydrated.
Mio@feddit.nu 4 weeks ago
It works. You dont feel hungry.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Look up hypernatremia
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Less brain fog cause your brain is swollen.
BillyClark@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
It wouldn’t be surprising if a person who was drinking too little water was also getting too little sleep and too little exercise, so they could have multiple sources for the same symptoms.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Hey, you didn’t have to make it personal…
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Have you been spying on me?
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Most people do get enough water, tea, diet sodas or energy drinks, Gatorade, etc. most drinks are 95-99% water and have the same hydration effect as a glass of water. Caffeine isn’t a strong enough diuretic to actually have any impact in 99.99% of cases. You would basically have to over dose on it and kill yourself before it became a real problem for water intake.
The problem almost always is lack of veggies, exercise, fruits, and lack of sleep.
Hydrohomies have caused a huge amount of problems with the whole drink more water thing. Over focus on a problem that doesn’t actually exist while being toxic and aggressive at anyone who tries to correct them.
Calorie intake from drinks is a larger issue then lack of water. Which is solved via artifical sweetener or drinks that don’t normally contain large amounts of calories. Assuming of course your trying to lose weight or it’s hampering your ability to eat other food stuffs such as veggies.
Seriously people just eat some more veggies, walk a bit more and go to bed an hour earlier. It will do infinity more for you then drink more water.