A clinician explains why water quality matters as much as quantity. She recommends drinking at least half your body weight in ounces daily, but stresses that the source matters: filtered, well, city, reverse-osmosis, or soft water all affect what you're actually consuming.
We talked a little bit earlier about nutrition. What about hydration? Is that something that you talk to patients about? Is this something that you ask about? Is this something we should be doing? Do we drink enough water? How do we hydrate? What are your thoughts?
I can tell you that nutrition and hydration is the foundation, along with sleep, for our patients. We always, always explain to patients that those are free, which means you can really work on that today. You don't have to require any tool and you can just go and do it. So the basic rule for hydration that we give patient as a homework is minimum half the body weight in ounces. But it's not that simple, right? We also wanna remind them, and we have a questionnaire on our new patient's form, what kind of water they have at home. Do they have filtered water? Do they have well water? Do they have city water? Do they have a whole house filter systems or reverse osmosis or soft water system? Because it's important to know what water system they have.
