Why is that water is needed to live as opposed to alternative liquids? If coffee is just bean-flavoured water, why couldn’t you survive by only drinking coffee? If you were lost on a desert island and had only coffee, juice or soda to drink, could you survive?

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Why is that water is needed to live as opposed to alternative liquids? If coffee is just bean-flavoured water, why couldn’t you survive by only drinking coffee? If you were lost on a desert island and had only coffee, juice or soda to drink, could you survive?

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Water is like…. the common denominator of your whole body. Think of it like your hands.

You may not notice what you can accomplish in a day with digits, palms, wrists, knuckles and finger nails but in the course of your day your hands are like this super cool tool you can damn near apply to anything from wiping your ass to performing complicated brain surgery. The list in between those two things is probably close to infinite. Your hands just have this cool ability to interact with anything for better or worse. If you lost your hands you’d quickly realize how much time and effort and loss of ability you now have because they’re gone.

Water is like that and your body uses it in pretty much every biological function you have because of the unique properties of water. Without water you would not exist.

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