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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Your cell walls allow ions like sodium and chlorine to flow back and forth depending on concentration. If the fluid outside of a cell has a ton of salt in it, the salt flows into the cell. And vice versa. If the cell has a lot of sodium inside compared to the outside, the salt flows outward.
It’s not just salt. All the waste chemicals from your own life processes act this way. So as your cells build up with waste… Poop, basically… It leaks out into the surroundings. Your kidneys pull that into the bladder to be removed when you pee. The colored tint to pee comes from those waste chemicals. If you are super dehydrated, you start peeing yellow, then orange, then brown, then red.
If you get down to those dark colors, your kidneys are at risk of just failing. That dark color is basically the background poo levels in your blood.
The only way to get rid of cellular waste – poop, dude – is to flush the water outside of your cells with new, clean water.
Just like not exercising and eating bad food leads to heart problems and heart failure, severe dehydration leads to kidney failure, chronic dehydration leads to kidney problems later in life, etc.
Drink clean water. Ditch fruit juices and sodas and other crap and head on over to r/hydrohomies for encouragement.
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