I get that our body needs water. But why does the thirst response almost always overestimates the amount of water our body actually needs, thereby leaving excess water that comes out as urine? How come our body doesn’t tell us to drink just the right amount of water that it needs? Why does yellow pee mean dehydration when the fact that there was enough excess water to produce urine means that you’re probably not dehydrated anymore?
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You flush excess stuff out. Your body constantly disarms, unpacks and processes stuff from hormones to unpacking sugars to throwing out excess hormones.
Which is why we can measure testosterone and ketone levels in pee strips. It is why we use pee as drug testing too. Because if you use performance enhancing drugs some of it will come flushing out.
If your pee is completely clear it just is mostly done for the moment, in fact if you are damn active and drink lots you will notice the pee discolors again. If you just drink lots and then be inactive.. that pee is going to stay clear…because you didn’t particularly do much in the first place.
This is generally a rule of thumb why people say if you drink enough it’s slightly yellowish not fully clear… it is just short hand for “you are kinda active too while drinking enough.”
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