# I have a hard time making myself drink water, so sometimes I just try to get it all in within a couple hours. But it got me thinking, does it help my body the same way as it would should I drink small amounts throughout the day.
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No. The 5 min explanation is two parts:
1) your body creates waste that gets dumped into your blood at a relatively constant rate throughout the day. Drinking water gives your kidneys (the organ that filters waste from your blood) more water to dilute and dissolve that waste into your urine.
2) your body loses a constant amount of water from breathing, a minimum constant amount of water from kidneys producing urine, plus whatever amount you are sweating. If you drink all your daily water at once, your kidneys will sense too much water and get rid of the excess. Then you continue losing that constant minimum water through the day and slowly get dehydrated.
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