Don't drink so much water

yes also doctors said drink daily 12 to 16 glasses of water is good for health ,,

What, doctor advice that drink a lot of water.

What gies in, must come out,one way or another. The kidneys can be overworked by those who think they must intake fluid every minute they are awake.

Oh well, anything in excess kills...Just do things in moderation

just drink when you are thirsty,, whats the fuss???

Basically, you are supposed to get approximately .7 times your weight, in pounds, in ounces of water. So, since I weigh about 280, I should get about 196oz. that is about 6 liters of water a day. The average person requires roughly half as much, or maybe 98. And that is for EVERYTHING! So even eating a hamburger helps fulfill the requirement. 8 glasses of water is about 64-128oz, depending on the size of the glass. Even with 64, that leaves 34 which you can probably get through your solid diet. EVen BREAD has SOME, meat does, carrots do, and who could argue about peas, grapes, corn, etc... It all adds up.

If you are bigger, it means more is needed for chemical reactions, and you may breath faster or deeper, sop more is needed there. And the surface area is larger, so more is lost via sweat, etc...

Basically, the kidneys help remove excess water and various water soluble toxins. SO, if you drink too little water, your kidneys will be exposed to too much poison, and could get hurt. MOST such damage will HEAL! If you drink WAY too much water, your kidneys have to work harder needlessly. And 6 liters sounds like a LOT, but when you take into account the wind, evaporation, breathing, general chemical reactions, sweat, AND diluting poisons, it really isn't that bad.

BTW the average male urinates about 3 times a day, and the average female about 4. if you aren't doing more than that, DON'T WORRY! Taking too much vitamin B, too much protein, too much water, etc.... CAN increase the number of times you urinate.

But people HAVE died from drinking WAY too much water, even before you could determine if they had kidney damage!

Steve

Could it be all the fluoride and other crap in the water that's causing the kidney problems?

Ernie it's worse than that. Some companies in AU are dumping lead and arsenic, etc into your water and calling it "fluoride" just to keep from having to pay toxic disposal fees. Happens in the US sometimes, too, but people are watching things pretty close up here now.

Water -- Who are these researchers?

Dehydration is a dangerous state and there is one heck of a lot of people who are chronically dehydrated. You can see the effects of poor irrigation and you can feel them. If you are fatigued a lot, you may just be dehydrated. If you are dehydrated enough to be fatigued, you need to drink no matter what some guy in a lab says.

If your urine is yellow or smells strong you aren't getting enough water to wash the toxins out of your body - and those toxins can mess with your kidneys and everything else in your body, too. Toxins in circulation or that harbor in a part of your body cause disease, syndromes, and if they lodge in your brain you've got a lot of fun in store for you.

Why aren't you SWEATING? Not every drop you drink is supposed to go through your kidneys. You are supposed to SWEAT some of the liquid out of your system. Sweating is one of your main toxin removal systems. You don't need to be ringing wet to sweat. A lot of new climbers will get dehydrated on the slopes because they don't realize how much they are sweating and dehydration can kill you when you're out there in some terrains. If you are in the desert you might drink a whole gallon in an hour and a half - walking at 110 degrees most of that liquid never even gets to your kidneys.

People look at one thing or another but fail to realize themselves as synergistic systems. You need water but if you are sitting in front of the computer 24/7 drinking your 8 glasses a day, it's not cycling normally - it's all going through your kidneys. Drink enough to keep your urine clear to light yellow and EXCERSIZE some of it out. If you are chronically fatiqued or your skin is dry and wrinkled, you need to drink more no matter what some guy in a lab says. That is a dangerous piece of information to put out without any context. There are a LOT of people getting ill from chronic dehydration. You need sufficient irrigation - but you also need to get off your duff and exercise excess water out of your pores where it's supposed to go.

Regardless of that "study", I'd rather drink 6 - 8 glasses of water a day than 4 - 6 bottles of Diet Pepsi, like a few people I know.

Me, I drink when I am thirsty. And sometimes when I THINK I am hungry but know I am not because I ate only an hour before

for every study published there is another study published stating the total opposite opinion.. some times science is conflicting. i say drink when your thirsty..and water was all anyone drank for thousands of years..how bad could it be. Soda on the other hand.....

I still don't believe it! I thought is very good in our body. I don't know if the study is really true. Anyway, thank you for sharing.

I have a lot of trouble drinking the recommended amount of water/fluid. Now that I have heard about this study I don't feel as bad about not drinking all that amount. On average I drink two avg water bottles full a day.

I think one thing people aren't looking at here is the article is talking about drinking way too much water - not the recommended daily amount. You still NEED to drink the recommended daily amount and it is unhealthy if you don't!

This is talking about people drinking around 18 glasses of water a day - too much! It isn't saying that you don't need to drink water or that you shouldn't drink the recommended 6 to 8 glasses a day! So don't go using an article like this to justify to yourself that you're ok that you don't drink enough water!

for real? I thought drinking lots of water is good for one's health. Hey, this is kind of confusing.

Are you sure the kidney damage is from drinking water? I know soda can destroy kidneys or chlorinated tap water, but pure water is good for the kidneys because it flushes out excess waste.

Found it very interesting to take a look at the book 'Your Body's Many Cries for Water' by Dr. Batmanghelidj. Based upon the hundreds of reviews, for example on Amazon, one would think that there is something to it... Dr. Batmanghelidj notes that it's very important to add a certain amount of electrolytes or (healthy) salts each time we drink water - water alone was not sufficient to achieve his amazing results with water.

Well I drink a lot of water and it is working fine for me but you shouldn't drink a lot of beer that's harmful!

You know, Sarah DOES make a good point. The "hold your wee for a wii" campaign killed/injured people because of things like an electrolyte imbalance. It had NOTHING to do with the kidneys. And YEAH, drinking a lot of water can TAX your kidneys, by having them do more work, but will that actually HURT them over the long run? AND, like kbnor said, you CAN drink a lot more water by keeping the electrolytes. That is what they originally tried to do with gatorade. Supposedly, Gatorade actually works pretty well. It got its odd name because it was supposed to AID a Football team in Florida. They were named the GATORS!

The kidneys, as they are generally known, have only TWO functions. They remove excess water, and remove toxins from the blood. YEAH, I know, they do other things like create EPO also, but that is beyond the scope here.

BTW the electrolyte deal AGAIN isn't perfect. Drinking too much water can ALSO rob your body of nutrition. In theory, too much water can give you scurvy, beri beri, and pellagra, to name a few. Of course, that would take a LOT of water over many weeks or months, to be noticed.

Steve