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Discover the Best Times to Hydrate for Optimal Health... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 1: Where we are revealing the eternal in each individual, the
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  Speaker 3: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. There are sometimes articles
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  Speaker 3: where I love what they have to say, and this
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  Speaker 3: would be one of them. This is an article by
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  Speaker 3: med or excuse me, medicine Net and it's the best
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  Speaker 3: time to drink water. It's like, Okay, let's see what
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  Speaker 3: they have to say. Some of it's going to be like, well, dure,
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  Speaker 3: but I kind of want to talk through why each
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  Speaker 3: one of these is excellent times to drink water. So
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  Speaker 3: first up on the chopping block is when you think
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  Speaker 3: you're hungry. Now, this is wonderful because most of us
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  Speaker 3: don't realize that our thirst reflex and our hunger reflex
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  Speaker 3: can get confused. And so if we do not drink
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fluids and you're out there thinking, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I really don't drink a lot of fluids at all,
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  Speaker 3: then you may have a thirst reflex. That now is
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  Speaker 3: confused with a hunger reflex, and so when you think
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  Speaker 3: you're hungry, you may want to reach for water first.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to go right along with one that
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  Speaker 3: they mentioned later, which is drink water before you eat.
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  Speaker 3: And ultimately we can cover it right now because if
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  Speaker 3: we drink water before we eat, we're actually cleansing our palate,
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  Speaker 3: we're cleansing the stomach, we're washing it, and we're prepping
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  Speaker 3: for food. And so we don't want to drink with
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  Speaker 3: meals because that would dilute our digestive potency. We would
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  Speaker 3: rather do it beforehand, hydrate, and then go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: eat your meal. So when you're thirsty, or rather when
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  Speaker 3: you're hungry, you may want to say, no, what, I
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  Speaker 3: just want to definitely drink some water now. Now, for
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  Speaker 3: those of you losing weight, we're going to find out
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  Speaker 3: a little bit later in this article that definitely you're
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  Speaker 3: going to want to drink water before you eat, because
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  Speaker 3: they have shown that time and again very helpful with
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  Speaker 3: weight loss by simply kind of filling your stomach up
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  Speaker 3: with water and cleaning it and realizing that, hey, maybe
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  Speaker 3: I just cleaned everything out of my blood with all
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  Speaker 3: that water. And now I don't. I'm really not as
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  Speaker 3: hungry as I thought I was, and I tend to
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  Speaker 3: be sated faster, and I tend to crave foods that
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  Speaker 3: tend to be a bit better for me when I'm
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  Speaker 3: well hydrated. So a little q in to weight loss
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  Speaker 3: there for drinking water. But I think it's wonderful. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this is one that I've always said was important. When
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  Speaker 3: you wake up now, most of us want to reach
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  Speaker 3: for coffee. However, caffeine literally tells the cells, hey, don't
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  Speaker 3: take on any water, and we would rather hydrate well
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  Speaker 3: ahead of time before we drink coffee. So whenever you
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  Speaker 3: are going to drink coffee, please grab water first. At
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  Speaker 3: least a good four to eight ounces. That would be
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  Speaker 3: wise in many respects. And they often talk about, hey,
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  Speaker 3: at least eight ounces in the morning, but sixteen would
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  Speaker 3: be better. And I happen to agree with that. If
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  Speaker 3: you want to throw a little fresh lemon or lime
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  Speaker 3: in it excellent idea that even though people would say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of acidic, well, your stomach should be incredibly acidic.
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  Speaker 3: Even when it's at rest. It is always waiting for
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  Speaker 3: the next batch of food, and so throwing in a
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  Speaker 3: little lemon juice that might be acidic is fine. It
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  Speaker 3: will burn up into alkaline ash minerals, so it tends
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  Speaker 3: to alkalize tissues at the end. So it's not as
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  Speaker 3: bad as you think if you're really concerned about the
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  Speaker 3: acidity of lemon juice. Anyways, Next, whenever you sweat. And
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting because right after this it
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  Speaker 3: says before, during, and after exercise. I'm thinking, well, okay,
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  Speaker 3: so if you have a hot tub or a sauna,
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  Speaker 3: or it's a really hot day, yes, you probably ought
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  Speaker 3: to drink some more fluid. But anytime that you are sweating,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter if you're in asaua or working out,
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  Speaker 3: you should be drinking water. If your job requires a
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  Speaker 3: lot of physical activity, like mine, you'll want to drink water.
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  Speaker 3: And I will admit I'm not always up on my
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  Speaker 3: water intake, but man, is it a boost when I
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  Speaker 3: do drink it, and so I can feel it now.
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  Speaker 3: Next they said whenever you're sick. Well, yes, I thought
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  Speaker 3: it was interesting that the said hydration is the key
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  Speaker 3: to healing when you're sick. I don't know that that's
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  Speaker 3: the key to healing, but I I'm sure, it's somewhat important.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, drinking water while you're ill is excellent. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if you have the stomach flu, do you feel like
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  Speaker 3: putting anything in your stomach? No, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 3: sipping and keeping water in your mouth is about all
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  Speaker 3: you can do if you're going to be throwing up again. However,
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  Speaker 3: once it's kind of a run its course, starting to
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  Speaker 3: cleanse the stomach can be excellent, and a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of lemon juice would be in short order in that
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  Speaker 3: particular bit of water. If you can tolerate just a
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  Speaker 3: small amount of raw apple side or vinegar, excellent. So
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  Speaker 3: let's consider those options as we are ill. But there
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  Speaker 3: are many, many other things we can do that I
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  Speaker 3: would think are a little bit more the key to
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  Speaker 3: healing when we're sick. Now, I guess I could give
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  Speaker 3: them this caveat because maybe they've been listening to my podcasts.
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  Speaker 3: When we feel like we're coming down with something, the
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  Speaker 3: very first thing to do is acidify the gut. So
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  Speaker 3: while water is fine, putting some rawple cider vinegar in
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  Speaker 3: that water and starting to help that detoxification mechanism is
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  Speaker 3: definitely of a huge benefit when we feel like we're
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  Speaker 3: coming down with something. Next, they said, when you fly.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking, my arms get really tired when I fly,
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  Speaker 3: But I digress. So when we fly, they tend to
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  Speaker 3: keep the cabin pressure at about six to eight thousand
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  Speaker 3: foot elevation, if you will, and the higher up we are,
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  Speaker 3: they keep it quite dry in the plane as well.
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  Speaker 3: So keeping hydrated in a plane is excellent advice. And
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  Speaker 3: don't if you've ever flown and you're thinking, I can't
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  Speaker 3: believe how much water I need, and now I'm getting
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  Speaker 3: up to go to the bathroom when they don't want
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  Speaker 3: me to. I have been there, done that, and so definitely,
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  Speaker 3: when we fly it can be super helpful to be hydrated. Next,
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  Speaker 3: this is one that I definitely practice a lot. When
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  Speaker 3: you get a massage. Now, the trick is to go
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  Speaker 3: to the bathroom right before you get on the table,
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  Speaker 3: because you just drink eight or sixteen ounces of water
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  Speaker 3: and that forty five five minutes or hours coming up
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  Speaker 3: awfully fast when you're on a table. But I do
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  Speaker 3: notice that I get less of a headache when I
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  Speaker 3: drink water before a massage. And interestingly enough, one of
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  Speaker 3: the things that they talk about is that hydration tends
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  Speaker 3: to prevent headaches, and so that's next. So it goes
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  Speaker 3: right in line with this whole idea. So pushing stuff
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  Speaker 3: around in your blood with a massage can push all
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  Speaker 3: those particulates back in your blood. And if your brain
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  Speaker 3: is not enjoying all of that, because your liver is
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  Speaker 3: not cleaning your blood fast enough and shoving it all
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  Speaker 3: in your gut, you may get a headache after a
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  Speaker 3: massage or feel worse, And so very very important to
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  Speaker 3: have a well hydrated body going into a massage, and
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  Speaker 3: if you're getting headaches, it is something to definitely try
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  Speaker 3: doing water. I love the book Your Many Cries or
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  Speaker 3: Your Body's Many Cries for Water. One of the instances
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  Speaker 3: he talks about is headaches, and it is excellent advice
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  Speaker 3: now before your period. I have no experience with this, Ladies,
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  Speaker 3: you'll have to chime in on this one. But if
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  Speaker 3: I am thinking in terms of hey, I need extra calcium,
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  Speaker 3: and my muscles need to get stuff out of them,
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  Speaker 3: and if I'm cramping, I need to kind of help
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  Speaker 3: hydrate those muscles, well, water sounds correct enough.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you that I have lots of women
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  Speaker 3: that their testimonies on man calcium three or four or
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  Speaker 3: five days before the start of my period can totally
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  Speaker 3: down or at least decrease the amount of cramping I
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  Speaker 3: notice during my cycles. And when I don't take calcium, man,
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  Speaker 3: is it bad? And so I will tell women. I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you really can't do it once you start cramping, because
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  Speaker 3: once those muscles start going, it's they're fatigued, and they
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  Speaker 3: get fatigued very quickly, and it is not a pleasant thing.
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  Speaker 3: So drinking extra water before your cycle and taking some
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  Speaker 3: calcium might be just the thing to help alleviate that. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this is one I've used many times as well. A
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  Speaker 3: mid day slump. I don't know I few, but I
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  Speaker 3: remember when I used to be oh, probably mid thirties,
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  Speaker 3: and I would just be exhausted after lunch. I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 3: oh my goodness. Now, if you'd been to my talk
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  Speaker 3: a couple nights ago on the Heart, you'd have heard
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  Speaker 3: me talk at length at B vitamins and how if
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  Speaker 3: you are fatigued after eating, you definitely need be vitamins.
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  Speaker 3: Now that I've been doing things of treating my body
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  Speaker 3: very well, twenty years later, I don't seem to notice
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  Speaker 3: those afternoon fatigue periods. But when I was starting that
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  Speaker 3: process of really rebuilding my body doing be vitamins and
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  Speaker 3: things of that nature to help after eating, I found
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  Speaker 3: that water was incredibly helpful at regaining my mental alertness
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  Speaker 3: when I was just dragging at around that three o'clock timeframe. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this next one I definitely think is excellent. Excellent advice
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  Speaker 3: when you need to be on top of your game,
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  Speaker 3: they said, And it doesn't mean just athletics. It means
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  Speaker 3: when you demand a lot of work out of your brain.
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  Speaker 3: Let's say you're going to give a talk or do
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  Speaker 3: a podcast, or you're going to have a meeting where
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  Speaker 3: people are going to be staring at you and you're
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  Speaker 3: going to have to report to people. You may definitely
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  Speaker 3: want to increase your water intake before you do that
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  Speaker 3: so that your brain is well hydrated and it's not cloudy.
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  Speaker 3: The other day, I had some food that I was like, Eh,
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  Speaker 3: this may be iffy for me. The next day, I
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  Speaker 3: was definitely cloudy in my head. As soon as I
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  Speaker 3: pounded a bunch of water, it took about a half
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  Speaker 3: an hour forty five minutes and I was clear headed,
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  Speaker 3: or at least a heck of a lot better. Than
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  Speaker 3: I was, and so this can be huge, huge game
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  Speaker 3: changer if especially your diet is not great. Next, we
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  Speaker 3: talked a little bit about weight loss. Now. I found
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  Speaker 3: it funny that they quoted did some weight loss here
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  Speaker 3: of girls. I'm like, we're talking about girls. Girls. You
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  Speaker 3: did studies on girls losing weight. But I digress. They said,
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  Speaker 3: fifty girls with extra weight drank about two cups of
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  Speaker 3: water half an hour before breakfast, before lunch, and before dinner,
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  Speaker 3: and no other changes in their diet.
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
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  Speaker 3: And after eight weeks they had lost weight and lowered
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  Speaker 3: their body mass index and body composition and did nothing else.
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  Speaker 3: And so when we're burning fat, we need to convert
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  Speaker 3: that fat to sugar, and so that sugar needs to
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  Speaker 3: get to our muscles and we need to burn it.
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  Speaker 3: And if we have more energy because we feel more clear,
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  Speaker 3: we may want to do a little bit more. It
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  Speaker 3: all would help this whole overall idea of weight loss.
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  Speaker 3: And so let's reconsider just something as simple as drinking
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  Speaker 3: extra water. And you may take a quick look at
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  Speaker 3: your overall lifestyle and say, you know what, I have
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  Speaker 3: been not drinking as much water and I am gaining weight.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought maybe I was getting older, or that
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  Speaker 3: maybe my metabolism was slowing down. But ultimately you may
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  Speaker 3: find that if you do things well, you'd be able
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  Speaker 3: to shed those pounds and not have a whole lot
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  Speaker 3: of problem. So do report back. If you do that,
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to hear some more anecdotal evidence. Next is
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  Speaker 3: how much water is best? And I was thinking, Ah,
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  Speaker 3: if they tell me sixty four ounces or some weight
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  Speaker 3: ratio or whatever, I'm just I'm gonna cry. They did
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  Speaker 3: say for the average healthy adult, and I thought, average
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  Speaker 3: healthy adult. Are there any of those in existence? I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure. And so with that, I give it to you,
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  Speaker 3: my listening audience, just as my brain is kind of
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  Speaker 3: like a little peaked when I think the average healthy adult,
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  Speaker 3: all right, fifteen and a half cups a day ideal
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  Speaker 3: for men, eleven and a half cups for women. Now
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  Speaker 3: this is included in all food and that we would drink.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking, all right, food has a fair amount of
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  Speaker 3: water in it. If we eat a oh, let's say
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  Speaker 3: a pound of food, you'd be surprised. I was at
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  Speaker 3: Whole Foods the other day and I'm putting things in
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  Speaker 3: my little oh bin or whatever, my little paper dish
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  Speaker 3: to go weigh it up and go pay for it
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  Speaker 3: and eat. And I'm thinking I didn't put a whole
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  Speaker 3: lot in here because I wasn't that hungry, but it
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  Speaker 3: was still almost a pound of food. I'm thinking. I
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  Speaker 3: looked at it and I was like, yeah, I guess
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  Speaker 3: most of it is probably water. And so if you
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  Speaker 3: think about eight ounces of water, Okay, well that's half
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  Speaker 3: a pound of food. Well, if we eat a pound
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  Speaker 3: to a pound and a half to two pounds of
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  Speaker 3: food at a sitting, it might be legitimate that we're
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  Speaker 3: getting a significant amount of water just in our food
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  Speaker 3: as well. So let's say that we eat maybe three
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  Speaker 3: or four or five pounds of food over the day,
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  Speaker 3: that would be almost ten cups of water if we did.
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  Speaker 3: I know some people can do that. I certainly don't.
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  Speaker 3: I start off a day with eight to ten, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: twelve ounces of kiefer, which is mostly water. I will
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  Speaker 3: have some raw cow milk. I will do water throughout
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  Speaker 3: the day because we have a water dispenser here at
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  Speaker 3: the office, and I do like to put ropplesider vinegar
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  Speaker 3: in it and some other things. And you know, some thinking, okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: maybe I do get a fair amount of cups of water,
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  Speaker 3: So I'd be interested to note. I'll have to start
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  Speaker 3: kind of looking at what do I do all day
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  Speaker 3: and how much water am I really getting. I know,
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  Speaker 3: in the wintertime I do a lot less and in
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  Speaker 3: the summer I do a lot more. So when I
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  Speaker 3: play sports, I am definitely doing a lot of water.
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  Speaker 3: And of course they talk in this article when you're
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  Speaker 3: doing sports that you should drink at least eight to
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  Speaker 3: sixteen ounces every fifteen minutes playing, and I'm thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 3: that might be a rule of thumb. But if you're
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  Speaker 3: doing hardcore athletics, yes, I would say that's probably true.
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  Speaker 3: But if we're okay, let's say I'm playing pickleball, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not constantly doing something. Now. If you're playing basketball, man,
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  Speaker 3: you should be drinking every fIF fifteen minutes. If you're
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  Speaker 3: playing football, you still rest and then you reset, and
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  Speaker 3: then you grunt for thirty seconds a minute, and then
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  Speaker 3: you rest and you reset and then you grunt. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's the way it is. If you're playing horseshoes,
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  Speaker 3: you're probably not doing that much. If you're playing one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite games, corn hole, well you're now you're
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  Speaker 3: not doing very much. I don't think I need to
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  Speaker 3: drink water at fifteen minutes. However, you have probably out
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  Speaker 3: of watch, especially if you're in the sun sweating, then
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  Speaker 3: it would be a little different. So some ideas on
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  Speaker 3: when and what is best for water intake. I hope
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  Speaker 3: this was helpful. Until next time, I'm doctor Troy, and
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  Speaker 3: remember there is way more right with you than there
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  Speaker 3: is wrong with you.
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