why drinking your daily intake of water is better for you if you spread it out throughout the whole day vs drinking it all at once.

Question

If it’s the same amount of water.

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Answer 1

Through the day your body flushes out your system and helps regulate your temperature.

All at once you just pee a bunch shortly after and that’s it, no other benefits.

Answer 2

Because if you drink a gallon of water in one sitting you’re going to piss most of it out and not have used it.

Answer 3

I think you pee it all out. But, if I’m dehydrated, I can sit with an IV and it’ll take 2 bags before I have to go to the bathroom. Unless you’re THAT dehydrated, you’ll pee out what your body doesn’t need in that moment but an hour later, you’ll probably need more.

Answer 4

1. You need water throughout the day. Generally, you need to drink _before_ you feel thirsty to remain optimally hydrated.

2. Drinking the daily amount of water you need in one sitting is relatively safe it might be difficult to drink it all at once. But you can **drink yourself to death** drinking too much water in a short period of time.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

Answer 5

Your body monitors the amount of water you need minute to minute. Too much water is bad because it’s extra strain on your heart and dilutes important stuff. So drinking a lot all at once means your body sees your needs being met plus excess – so you pee it out. But over the course of the day you use/lose water, mostly through super tiny moment-to-moment losses like sweating (you’re nearly constantly micro-sweating) and breathing (you lose a bit of water vapor in your breath), and that needs to be replaced. Additionally, you need water to get rid of waste like urea (where the word urine comes from), even if it means drying you out a little bit. This water also needs to be replaced.

So because you’re constantly losing water and the body doesn’t really have a big tank to store it in, it’s generally better to space out drinking it.

Answer 6

Apparently kidneys have a max filteration rate which if you exceed is bad for you. I’ve read that it’s around 1 litre per hour