Dr. Caroline Williams cut her coffee intake after a skin specialist linked her chronic dehydration to caffeine. Within three months, her skin improved. She explains that dehydration is the leading cause of kidney stones and stresses the importance of monitoring water intake.
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I've noticed a difference even with myself. Like, I stopped drinking coffee. It was a recommendation, um, from somebody else that was looking at my skin specifically, and they were saying, yeah, I can tell you're a coffee drinker. And my skin was very dehydrated chronically, and I had other symptoms of dehydration too. Um, and so I went ahead and just gave up the coffee pretty much totally. Occasionally I might have some, but, um, now, but not on a daily basis like I was. And it's just like within probably the last 3 months, my skin is just completely different. Kidneys are very affected by dehydration. Um, I don't know if you guys are aware of this, but the number one cause of kidney stones is dehydration. And so that's just a good example. Right. And so hydration is just extremely important for the health of your kidneys. And you want to certainly look at how much water you're consuming, but you also want to look at things that are dehydrating.