I struggle to drink enough water for some reason. I’m hoping someone can simply explain the scientific reason it’s important and what damages happen from chronic dehydration, to be able to “scare” myself maybe?
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Water is essential for the body to work. Beyond the individual cells and their inner workings, everything in the body is transported in a liquid medium. Suppressing water restricts that transportation, and the body takes measures to compensate. From constricting your blood vessels to compensate for the lack of blood volume and pressure, as it makes the heart overwork. It also taxes the kidneys, who have a harder time dealing with excreting toxic compounds, as you need water to carry them out. You will have a harder time cooling your body, as water makes up most of sweat. Also a harder time lubricating the tissues, making joints more prone to hurt, making food harder to swallow, making the skin drier and easier to split. The stomach suffers with a double threat: less water in the mucus that protects from the even less diluted digestive acid.
Do you need more reasons?
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