Been seeing that you should keep drinking until your pee is clear, but its quite astounding how quickly the pee turns dark. Like just 4h of no water or eating a meal will turn it dark. If water is needed so often how do people of the past (who probably don’t have that frequent access to water) even live?
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Remember, clear pee isn’t necessarily always the optimal state. And non-clear pee isn’t some kind of dehydration emergency.
Plenty of people go days, weeks, months, years, without ever having fully clear pee, and they are just fine. A lot of people are overly obsessed with hydration. The human body isn’t some giant water tank that needs to be constantly kept at 100% full capacity or it will fail.
“Non clear pee” does not equal “dehydration.”
Most people drink just when they are thirsty, and that seems to suit them fine. Those guidelines about 8 glasses of water per day are based on… absolutely nothing! There’s no backing to it. Some people might need that! If you sit in a climate controlled atmosphere all day and don’t move much, you probably need less! If you’re a construction worker in Arizona, you probably need quite a bit more. (Purely anecdotal, but the only people I’ve ever heard obsessing about their water intake have been those who are in office jobs and probably are never actually dehydrated, even without that water bottle constantly at their side.)
My own theory about water: It’s EASY. There’s literally nothing easier than just sipping water. But it makes people feel good, like they are doing something healthy, good for them. They can sit and do absolutely nothing other than drink water and pat themselves on the back for it. “Sure, I went from my bed to my desk to my couch back to my bed, barely moving, but hey, I had a LOT of water today! I’m healthy!!!”
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