Water Intake and Hot Beverages

Let's clarify two things about water. Number one when you're drinking hot tea or coffee, if it's steaming off the cup that is causing micro irritations to your throat and tongue increasing the risk of throat and tongue cancer. You shouldn't be drinking hot beverages that are so hot causing micro burns. Tea drinkers love to have hot tea on their desk all the time. Constantly burning your mouth with things that are hot is not ideal. You can drink warm tea or warm soup that's not really that hot.

Two, on the American diet, people are drinking so much water. When you drink all that water and added salt, you're peeing out so much salt and water all the time and you're washing other minerals away with the salt. Your body just doesn't excrete all that extra salt you consume in the urine with all the extra water you're forced to drink for the salt you're eating. It's not selectively just taking away salt, it's taking away magnesium and other minerals that you need with the extra sodium. You're peeing out. When you're in huge amounts of salt, you're getting rid of huge amounts of salt every day. You're losing a lot of stuff every day and you're losing salt in your sweat. So you constantly cramp up your muscles because you're always losing electrolytes from your from your urine and your sweat when your on a low salt diet your kidney learns how to hold on to sodium not to release it and you're not pushing out salt in your sweat. So you've been at a hard tennis match or a bike ride or a running, running a six mile race and you're sweating. You're not going to become so low and low on electrolytes as sodium is but he's not you're sweating it out and you're not paying it out either. And you don't need all the extra water either. Because your diet with your diet is a high water content diet. One is you don't need as much water. And two is if you're drinking excessive, if you're drinking too much water and you always have water next to you, drinking you know, quarts and quarts of water drinking like gallons of water a day. What are people drinking a whole gallon of water? That's four quarts of water a day, then you've lost a tremendous amount of nutrients in your urine. You don't need all that water, maybe two or three glasses of water a day, not two or three quarts of water a day. Because your diet is high in water content, it's low in sodium, and even even the hot weather I might be drinking extra water when I'm playing tennis and a hard tennis match. But I'm drinking an extra you know, maybe quart of water during the tennis match. But if I wasn't playing a tennis match, I've been drinking maybe having one glass during the day and one glass towards the evening. That's probably it. But anyway, the average American needs a lot more water because they're obviously have a lot of the diet is very dry. They're eating a lot of dry foods, and eating a lot of sodium.

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