The Dehydration Myth
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Caffeine: Is it dehydrating or not? - Mayo Clinic
Armstrong's Study Shows Caffeine Does Not Increase Dehydration - July 22, 2002
Carbonated water is water that's had CO2 put into it under pressure. Why would that make it better or worse? We hear a lot of things. Butter was bad, eat margarine. Margarine is bad, eat butter.
I find vaping dries my throat and mouth out a -lot-
I drink nothing but water at work, I'm so cheap I even retained my last 500ml bottle of Coke and use that (it gets cleaned regularly, the "Coke" logo is fairly faded though)
I need to drink something when chain vaping, maybe that's just me though. It doesn't necessarily need to be water however. Coffee, beer, and cider do fine too
I drink nothing but water at work, I'm so cheap I even retained my last 500ml bottle of Coke and use that (it gets cleaned regularly, the "Coke" logo is fairly faded though)
I need to drink something when chain vaping, maybe that's just me though. It doesn't necessarily need to be water however. Coffee, beer, and cider do fine too
Also pretty unusual that tap water became taboo about the same time.
Purly coincidental I'm sure
Louis Black does a funny bit about how he used to get clean drinking water from 5 different places in the house before deregulation and more lax water standards often necessitated the move to bottled water. Some places tap water is great, some places not so great.
I grew up with the 8 glasses a day thing. That was back in the 60s. Far before bottled water. At least as we know it today.
I don't eat either, I eat Smart Balance.
No cholesterol, no trans-fats, AND no icky taste! Andria
It just seems to be always getting worse, so the first thing we bought after we bought our house was a whole-house filtration system, with additional reverse-osmosis filtration drinking water at the kitchen sink. Man, that water is good!!! We were just tired of spending a fortune on bottled water, AND contributing that to that plastic-raft in the ocean.
Andria
My pediatrician of the time, 55 years ago, told me about the "8 glasses and much more in the summer" thing. I'm not sure the plastic used in water bottles had even been invented by then.
Yup, from what I've learned from multiple, independent sources, lack of hydration is the principal cause of kidney stones.
I wake up every morning with a mouth as dry as a cream cracker.
I drink about 5 litres of water a day and it still persists...i've come to the conclusion that certain juices dehydrate more than others, fruity high nic juices seem to dehydrate me in a few minutes but dessert flavours don't. It could just be the nicotine (cigarettes used to dehydrate me as well)
I drink about 5 litres of water a day and it still persists...i've come to the conclusion that certain juices dehydrate more than others, fruity high nic juices seem to dehydrate me in a few minutes but dessert flavours don't. It could just be the nicotine (cigarettes used to dehydrate me as well)
Unless you're my brother-in-law who will get stones if he drinks hard water.
He still gets stones drinking RO but only about once every 2 years.
I used to bike (with pedals, not gas) a lot. A 60 mile ride on weekends was pretty normal as were 200 mile weeks. I did a good bit of research into dehydration and could never find anything to convince me that caffeine had anything but a very mild diuretic effect, so mild that I should ignore it. I believe the information they give on it here is accurate.
I have no idea where the caffeine myth came from, but a lot of people believe it!
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I dunno if it's a myth or not but since I've started vaping I've been more thirsty...the type of thirsty that my normal coca cola addiction just doesn't get rid of so I make myself drink more water. I can also say that I can tell a major difference in how much better the flavor of my juice is when I'm drinking a lot of water compared to when I'm not. Either way I need to drink more water.
I'll chime back in. Go pick yourself up one of those camelback bottles (hard one, with a built in straw.). You can even clip a carabiner to it and let it dangle off your daypack if that makes you feel "tacti-cool". But try it for a week, and post back if having water at the ready changed things for you. I found I was drinking 6L a day at a minimum when it was simply there.
When I first got a fridge with a filter and crushed ice I went on a water kick. When drinking water I drink a lot more than with other liquids because water gives me cotton mouth. I even gave up coffee for a little while during that. I felt no different.
Drink lots of liquids with electrolytes is what I would recommend because if your like me which im on probation or parole a diluted u.a. can lead to a false positive apparently.
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Are you kidding? Our juices are humectants. That means they suck the moisture out of everything. And dehydration is no myth. As a medical researcher I can tell you that proper hydration is important to virtually every biological function in the body. Far more likely that people are dehydrated chronically, than over hydrated. Do some actual research, dehydration is no myth certainly.
Listen to ZZ Top, beer drinkers can only be hell raisers when they stay hydrated, goes for vapers too.
People say it's the dehydration that causes the awful hangover, I say it's drinking too ...... much. lol
Stones come in different flavors, I gather, from stuff like hard water and calcium, ones I had were the most evil looking tear-dropped shaped crystalline entities I have ever seen and never wish to see again. Too much salt is bad too. Yeah vaping a lot dries the hell outta me. I like juices and teas but very watered down and not too sweet. Quit booze a while back so that has helped me too. Hurts like hell my social life but helps with hydration. Cheers.
People say it's the dehydration that causes the awful hangover, I say it's drinking too ...... much. lol
Stones come in different flavors, I gather, from stuff like hard water and calcium, ones I had were the most evil looking tear-dropped shaped crystalline entities I have ever seen and never wish to see again. Too much salt is bad too. Yeah vaping a lot dries the hell outta me. I like juices and teas but very watered down and not too sweet. Quit booze a while back so that has helped me too. Hurts like hell my social life but helps with hydration. Cheers.
This is an interesting topic. I don't know if you read my earlier post Bill, but I used to bike a lot. From that experience I know that in typical summer temperatures I have to be drinking a bit over a liter of water per hour to remain adequately hydrated. After 5 - 6 hours of pedaling I typically weighed almost four pounds less than when I started the ride, so about two liters low, if I had been fully hydrated at the start. By the next morning, I'd say I was only two pounds low. If I rode that day again I would loose the two pounds but no more.
I really didn't feel any different with that much difference in hydration and my performance was pretty much the same either way as far as I could tell. I did occasionally get myself dryer than that and did feel that. I've also run out of energy and wow, that can hit you hard!
I don't have to drink anywhere near 64 ounces (1.9 liters) of water a day to stay comfortably hydrated when I'm not sweating. These days I vape maybe 4 ml a day. I know it's a humectant, but how many ml of water can a ml of juice remove from me? Even at 10 to one, that would still only be 40 ml a day (1.4 oz).
I am certainly not saying that hydration is not important or that people can not get dehydrated. But the 64 oz minimum fluid intake per day seems a bit far fetched. And what am I missing about the PG and VG humectant effect?
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