How drinking enough water can help you in improving you health?

A human body needs water to survive. Your body contains approximately 60 percent water, your brain contains 70 percent water, and your lungs are nearly 90 percent water. Each day, your body must replace 2.4 liters — or about 2.5 quarts of water — through ingested liquid and foods.
The amount of water you consume every day plays an important role in maintaining a healthy body. Experts recommend drinking 8 to 10 glasses of water each day helps you to maintain good health.

Top 10 Benefits of Drinking Water:

1) Increases Energy & Relieves Fatigue

Since your brain is mostly water, drinking it helps you think, focus and concentrate better and be more alert. As an added bonus, your energy levels are also boosted.

2) Promotes Weight Loss

Removes by-products of fat, reduces eating intake (by filling up your tummy if consumed prior to meals), reduces hunger (hello natural appetite suppressant!), raises your metabolism and has zero calories!

3) Flushes Out Toxins

Gets rid of waste through sweat and urination which reduces the risk of kidney stones and UTI’s (urinary tract infections).

4) Improves Skin Complexion

Moisturizes your skin, keeps it fresh, soft, glowing and smooth. Gets rid of wrinkles. It’s the best anti-aging treatment around!

5) Maintains Regularity

Aids in digestion as water is essential to digest your food and prevents constipation.

6) Boosts Immune System

A water guzzler is less likely to get sick. And who wouldn’t rather feel healthy the majority of the time? Drinking plenty of water helps fight against flu, cancer and other ailments like heart attacks.

7) Natural Headache Remedy

Helps relieve and prevent headaches (migraines & back pains too!) which are commonly caused by dehydration.

8) Prevents Cramps & Sprains

Proper hydration helps keep joints lubricated and muscles more elastic so joint pain is less likely.

9) It helps endurance athletes fight fatigue.

Water is an integral part of most any workout, and it becomes especially important in order to prevent dehydration during long workouts.

10) Eating it hydrates us—deliciously.

Water-rich fruits and vegetables like cucumber, watermelon, and strawberries contain minerals, salts, and natural sugars the body needs for optimum hydration levels, so eating them can sometimes rehydrate us more effectively (and a lot more tastily) than water alone.

Now let’s discover when we should intake water and when not, and what are the impacts of it?

During Eating

Drinking water while eating can slow digestion. It is better to drink water before eating because, in addition to protecting the stomach walls, it helps make us feel fuller and prevents us from overeating.

While standing

When we stand up & drink water, it flows with a great volume down the food canal & splashes on to the lower stomach wall. Drinking water while standing also disturbs the bodily balance of other fluids. It affects the joints & cause deficiency of nutrients in joints leading to arthritis.

Just after the meal

We all know that pouring water over fire puts out the fire. Similarly, when we drink water immediately after our meal, it puts out the digestive fire in our stomach (dilutes/weakens the digestive acid in our stomach).  Some people even drink cold water after their meal which is very harmful.

What is the best time in the day to drink water?

1) After waking up

Drink one glass of water after waking up to help activate your internal organs. The water will help to remove any toxins before your first meal of the day.

2) Before a meal

Drink one glass of water 30 minutes before a meal to help digestion. Remember not to drink too soon before or after a meal as the water will dilute the digestive juices. Drink water an hour after the meal to allow the body to absorb the nutrients.

3) Before a bath

Drink one glass of water before taking a bath to help lower your blood pressure.

4) Before sleep

Drink one glass of water an hour before bedtime to replenish any fluid loss that can occur during the night.

Hope you find this article helpful.

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