The more the water we drink the more the need we have to pee. So how does it actually help your body when it only consumes the amount of water it requires for its functioning and releases the extra one. Basically i am confused why Doctors recommend drinking 8 or more glasses of water when our body doesn’t retain much of it
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Your kidneys job is to filter out bad stuff from your body. It’s only method of doing this uses water, which is mixed with the junk and excreted out as urine. Drinking a lot of water promotes kidneys to function a lot (also why you’re supposed to drink lots of fluids when you’re sick) which helps clean the body out.
8 glasses a day is more of a marketing scheme than a doctor recommendation. There’s no biological need for your urine to be clear instead of yellow (if there was, one would think that animal urine would mostly be clear too, but they don’t over-drink either, cause they don’t need to).
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