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Life-Giving Water | Episode #397 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make your Life Count.
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I'm your host, Doctor Gloria. Gloria Burgess, international leadership expert and
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trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living Make your Life Count. I'm delighted that
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you joined me today. I want to give a big thank you to those
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of you who are listening all around the world. I'm delighted and so grateful
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that you tuned in. I sure hope you're enjoying a fabuls day today and
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that you're having a fantastic week, because you know what, in the grand
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song of the universe, life is very short, short, sweet, and
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very precious. So I hope you're making a difference in your own life because
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when you do, you also make a difference in someone else's life. Now,
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a lot of folks want to make their life count for something, and
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they ask me, Doctor Gloria, how do you do that. Well,
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it's very simple, very simple. You make your life count day by day,
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step by step, moment by moment, every single day. That's what
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pH d. Forward slash. All right, today, I want to talk
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with you about health and healthy living. Specifically, we're going to focus on
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one of the most important habits you can cultivate to keep yourself healthy, and
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that habit is all about keeping yourself hydrated. Now, I remember when my
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daughter was much much younger, she loved water. Now, for her,
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that meant that she loved being in the water. She loved to swim,
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but she wasn't all that keen on drinking water. In fact, I remember
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she really enjoyed visiting one of her aunts, and this particular Auntie enjoyed taking
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my daughter to the water park. Now, one summer it was very very
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very hot, much hotter than usual, and my daughter was with her Auntie
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in her favorite water park. She splashed and played and splashed and played in
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the water. But when it was time to drink water to keep herself hydrated,
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my daughter just flatly refused to drink her water. She refused to eat.
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I mean, you know how kids are. They love to play more
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than anything, and my daughter was no different. Thankfully, my sister knew
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the dangers of not getting enough water, so she told my daughter she was
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going to take her home if she didn't drink her water, and that's exactly
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what she had to do. So how much water should you drink each day?
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Well, that's a great question, right. It's also a very simple,
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straightforward question, but it's a question with no easy answer. Now,
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different research studies have produced varying recommendations over the years, but your individual water
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needs depend on many many factors, including your health, how active you are,
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where you live. So unfortunately, no single formula fits everybody. But
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knowing more about your body's actual needs for fluid will help you estimate how much
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water to drink each day, because when you drink enough water each day,
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you can enjoy all the benefits of living a healthy life. Now, how
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many of you can relate to that. We all want to live a healthy
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life, right Why so we can make a difference in our own life and
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enjoy the best quality of life for ourselves spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally,
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and intellectually, and we can help others do the same. So once
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again, today's focus is about healthy living and today's healthy habit is all about
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keeping yourself hydrate it. Now it is time for you to grab your earbuds,
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your ear pods, whatever they're called these days. Put on your walking
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shoes, or maybe it's time to reach for a night this tall cool glass
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of water, or make yourself a cup of coffee or tea. Put your
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feet up, relax in your favorite chair. We're going to have a great
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time today, no matter where you happen to be on the planet. Now,
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before I jump into today's episode, I want to take just a moment
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to welcome you. If you're just joining us for the very first time.
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I'm your host, doctor Gloria, and this is legacy living, Make your
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life count. I want to extend a special welcome to those of you who
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are joining us for the first time today, for the very first time ever.
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Right, let me tell you something you are in for a real treat.
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I'm excited to have you listening today, and I'm deeply honored that you've
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allowed me to be part of your day so you can be inspired by ideas
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and resources to make your life count. Now again, today's program is all
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about healthy living, and our special focus today is developing the habit for staying
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hydrated or drinking water, a very important topic so you can enjoy a happy,
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healthy life. Now, did you know that when you develop new habits,
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you're actually supporting your brain. That's right, Your brain depends on fluids
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to function properly. How about that. Now, we have billions and billions
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of neurons in our brains, and we have trillions I'm talking about trillions and
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trillions of synapses. All those neurons and synapses depend on liquid in order to
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fire properly. Now, water is essential for brain health. Did you know
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that it's also essential for all of your other organs as well? In fact,
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keeping your body well hydrated, well watered helps to ensure the integrity of
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your organs, and it also helps keep your immune system in tip top shape,
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which helps to prevent infections. Now, earlier, we had a question
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about what's the right amount of water to drink. The truth is there is
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no set amount of water that is uniformly recommended by any medical society. Now,
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in some cultures we say eight glasses of water a day. But let
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me tell you that amount might be right for some people but not nearly enough
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for others. So let's talk about some of the benefits of drinking water.
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Here are some of the many ways that water can be beneficial to your health.
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Did you know that when you exercise, water is just what you need
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to keep your muscles doing exactly what they are designed to do. That's right.
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Water helps keep the right balance of electrolytes. Now, what are electrolytes.
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I know you've heard that word, but what are they really? Right?
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Electrolytes are things like sodium and potassium and magnesium, okay, And all
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of those electrolytes and more are necessary so that your muscles can function properly.
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Now, if you've ever been surprised, like me, by one of those
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painful cramps in your leg, muscles or another muscle group, think about that.
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Right, Without an adequate supply of water, muscles are actually more susceptible
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to cramping. Now, if the idea of simply hydrating yourself to health seems
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like magical thinking. I want you to consider the research that backs up what
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I'm talking about. Study after study after study shows that drinking enough water fends
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off problems from your head to your toes. Right now, doctor Ronald Navarro
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reminds us that water is a basic need for cellular health. How much water
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you need depends on a whole lot of factors, like I said earlier,
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right, how much you weigh, what climate you live in, how often
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you exercise or work out, Okay, and so much more so. Again,
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the rule of thumb is eight eight ounce glasses of water a day.
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Right now, that's a great place to start. But now I want you
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to listen very closely. The Institute of Medicine actually recommends more than eight eight
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ounce glasses of water per day, especially for folks who live in temperate or
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mild climates. Now, here's one way, one sure way to tell if
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you're well hydrated. You know, not counting glasses, okay, or the
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eight ounces. But here's the best way, okay, and that's to look
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at the color of your urine. Now, if you're well hydrated, your
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urine should be pale yellow. If yours is dark yellow, you need more
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water. It's that simple, right, Another wonderful benefit of drinking water is
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that water can actually boost your energy. That's right now, how does that
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happen? Great question? Right. Water helps keep a steady flow of nutrients
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going into your cells, and that's what helps to boost your energy. When
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you don't drink enough water. In other words, when you get hydrated,
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your cell membranes become less permeable, which slows down and hampers the flow of
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nutrients to your cells. Right, big words permeable. That means I won't
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let the water in right now. You can tell, because the impact on
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you is that you can feel a little foggy, or you feel more sluggish.
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You know, you just don't feel like your normal self. So overall,
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the net net, the overall impact is that not drinking enough water impairs
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both your physical and your mental performance. And nobody wants that. Another benefit
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of water. Now, when I exert myself, okay, when I really
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you know, work hard, I actually work up a sweat, and I'm
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sure the same thing happens to you when you exert yourself. You should be
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working up a sweat as well, I mean, you know the signs.
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Your forehead gets a little moist, you feel the trickles of sweat running down
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your face and then down your neck and down your back, and sometimes you
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even sweat under your arms. Right now, any kind of sweat when you're
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exerting yourself physically is a sign that your body is operating as it should be
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operating. When you sweat, that means your internal core is heating up,
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and your body responds by doing its job to cool you down right so that
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you can maintain a normal body temperature. And guess what, Water is absolutely
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essential to making that happen. Now, another benefit, well, let's see,
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another benefit of hydrating yourself is that you just might lose weight. Now
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that sounds like a pretty good deal from me most of us, right,
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I mean losing weight just by drinking water. Why is that? Well,
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drinking water, especially if you drink a glass or two of water before a
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meal, Drinking water can make your stomach feel more full, so you actually
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eat less food. So if you eat less, you consume fewer calories.
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It's that simple. Now, over a period of several weeks or several months,
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you can see the result because you're dropping a few pounds. Here's another
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benefit. Now, remember earlier I talked about water and how it helps the
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brain to function properly. Another organ that benefits from being well hydrated is our
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skin. Now, most of us don't even realize that our skin is an
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organ. Right, Just like your brain or your heart or your liver,
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our skin is actually posed of thirty percent water. Okay, at least thirty
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percent. Now, if all of those skin cells don't get sufficient amounts of
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water, guess what they'll start to wither and shrink. If you drink enough
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water and other fluids your skin, your skin cells will respond accordingly. And
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what happens is that those cells will actually plump up and your skin will say,
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oh, thank you, thank you. Right now, here's another great
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benefit. When I feel like I'm coming down with a cold or something similar,
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you know what I do right away, I begin drinking more water.
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Now, I want you to listen to your mom or your dad, or
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your nurse or your doctor when they tell you to drink more water and juice
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and tea soup or broth right, and guess what. Your body will be
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so grateful it will say thank you, thank you, thank you. Now
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when you're coming down with a cold or the flu, your body immediately goes
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into gear, right, It begins to do battle on your behalf. Your
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immune system gears up and goes into attack mode, gearing up against all those
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yucky germs that have invaded your body. Now, when you catch a cold,
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I know, when I catch a cold, my head gets stuffy,
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my nose gets stuffy, and I have to have some help to flush all
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that stuffiness out of my system. So having a running nose is really good
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for you. Right, it's a nuisance, but it's really good for you.
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That's your body saying, here we go, let's get rid of all
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those yucky germs. And you know what else, Your nose is running.
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That means your cells need more fluid to replace the fluids you're expelling the fluids
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that you're getting rid of right now. Staying well hydrated also helps keep your
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nose and your throat moist right, and it helps to loosen up the mucus
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in your body, your entire body. You want to keep your nose and
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throat moist because it helps to keep the germs at bay. Right. Okay,
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your doctor or nurse may have told you, you know, if you
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have a dry nose. Guess what you want? You want to change that
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because that's the that's the entry point for germs all right. Now, another
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great benefit of water is that it helps keep your digestive track in good shape.
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By staying well hydrated, you actually reduce the risk of constipation. Okay,
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that means getting too much of stuff in your colon, right, and
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it also helps reduce the risk of some types of colon cancer. Now,
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how do you stay well hydrated? Especially if you're a busy person, right,
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Your busy mom, your busy dad, you're busy teenager. You're always
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on the move with your career or school or schedules or what have you.
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Right, So I'm going to give you a few tips to help you be
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sure to stay well watered, well hydrated. Okay, Now you might want
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to write some of these down because these are really good. Get out your
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notepad or your tablet, whatever you have handy. Okay, here we go.
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Now, before you have breakfast, be sure to drink an eight ounce
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glass of water. You can drink it all before you make breakfast, and
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then while you're making breakfast, sip on another eight ounce glass of water.
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Yum, yum. Right, pretty easy, right. Now. I have
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one friend who says three classes of water even before you start your breakfast.
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Okay, So you can mix it up depending on those factors that we talked
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about earlier. Write your climate, how active you are all of those things.
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Now. Here's another tip. I often work for my home office,
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okay, with coaching clients or my consulting clients, or I'm teaching or what
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have you, and I set an alarm on my phone or on the computer
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or on the kitchen or wherever I happen to be working, right to remind
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me sometimes to take a drink of water. Now, you can do the
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same thing. Simply set something on your on your phone. Probably easy,
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easy, smeasy, right. Another tip. Another trick is to pour water
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into a larger container than an eight ounce glass. Right. You can try
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using your favorite reusable water bottle or maybe that half gallon jug or gallon jug,
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so that you can have water all morning and well into the afternoon.
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Okay. Now, be sure to have your container close by so you can
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easily sip and drink water all day long. Here's another great tip, chill
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your water right. Research shows that you're likely to drink more water if it's
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cold. Now, I didn't know that, did you. I love learning
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new things about water. My younger sister is one of the healthiest people I
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know. Years ago she told me. She said, Gloria, if you
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want to be sure to drink enough water each day, here's what you do.
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She said, be sure to always drink a full glass of water before
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you go to the bathroom. That's right before you go. So when you
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fill the urge, grab your glass of water and down your H two oh,
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and then you go, oh, I love that, down your H
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two oh, and then you go all right, Okay. Here's another tip.
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If you want to add some sparkle to your life, add some sparkle
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to your water. You can make your water sparkle by simply adding carbon dioxide.
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You can buy a gadget to help you do that, or you can
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jazz up your water make it sparkle right by adding fresh fruit like lemon slices
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or lime or orange, or maybe strawberries or peaches or mango or melon.
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Or if you love herbs like I do, add cement or sage, or
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add veggies like slices of cucumber to your water. Another way to make your
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water sparkle. Now you know what, Another really simple way to increase your
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water intake is simply by eating more vegetables and fruit, right, you eat
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them during the day. Now, most fruits veggies have a very high water
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content. In fact, most of them are like ninety ninety three, ninety
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five ninety eight percent water. So you can enjoy them, and while you
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do, you can boost your hydration at the same time. So lots of
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information about hydration. Right. I hope you'll agree that water is not only
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good, it is also good for you. In fact, it's one of
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God's great gifts to us, a wonderful fluid for body and soul. So
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be sure to drink up water, water, water, and more water for
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you to boost your intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual health for a
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healthy life. Now, before I close today's episode, I just want to
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make sure to give a shout out to all the folks who make the world
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a healthier place in the many ways that you make that happen. Thank you,
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thank you, thank you. A wise person once told me, it's
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the little things you do. It's the little things you do day by day,
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over and over and over again. The little things you do with love
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and with consistency. That's what makes the difference. Now, I want you
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to ask yourself, what can I do? What can I do that will
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make a difference? What can I do that will make a difference for my
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own healthy living and for someone else in my life? Is it for a
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spouse, your daughter or son, your sister or brother, your mom or
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dad, or for your teammate at work, or for somebody in your church
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or temple or synagogue. Maybe it's for your neighbor, you know what.
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Maybe it's for someone you don't even know yet right where Might I do something
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that will bring healthy living more into focus into my own life? That's what
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I want you to ask yourself. Now, you've heard me talk about the
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arts and how much I love the arts, singing, poetry, dancing,
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painting, writing. I love listening to and singing music. That's one of
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the other ways that I hydrate myself. I also love to color. Some
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time ago I bought some colored markers and colored pens and my own coloring book.
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Yes, they have adult coloring books now, and I've used the pens
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and they are fabulous, and I can actually feel myself responding differently when I
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use them, firing up that emotional center in my brain and hydrating my soul.
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I also enjoy cooking, you know, trying out new things, new
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dishes, and new herbs. Right. I love using fresh herbs whenever I
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can. Maybe you do too. You can grow them in your kitchen or
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in your garden or on your deck or patio, and you can enjoy them
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as they grow each day before your very eyes, and then you can choose
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to eat them in the meals you cook for yourself and your family and friends.
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Now, just be sure to sip on a glass of water as you
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cook, right or before each meal and afterwards. So another question for you
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is this, ask yourself, how is my healthy living coming along? How
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are you making a difference that makes a difference in your own healthy life and
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in someone else's life, day by day, step by step, moment by
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moment, sip by sip, and smile by smile, every single day.
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journey with what Legacy living is all about, not just living and learning,
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