Tyrone Bray explains why water matters for health. A 1% drop in hydration strains your heart and lowers aerobic endurance. Water enables the trillions of biochemical reactions your body runs on every second, and it prevents constipation without adding calories.
What's up, people? Tyrone Bray here, founder of Titan Health and Performance. Welcome to this week's health tip. So in today's video, we're going to be talking about why it's important to make sure you're drinking enough water each day and obviously hitting your optimal water intake. Now, one of the first objections I tend to get from a new client once I say, oh, you should be drinking this amount of water. Is, "Well, why? I'm not drinking anywhere near that amount at the moment and I feel fine, so why do I need to suddenly, you know, like significantly increase my water intake?" Now, that's a pretty valid question at the end of the day. You know, why should you do anything if you're unsure of the benefit you're going to get from it? Now, in real terms, with regards to water, it carries out hundreds and hundreds of functions in the body, so therefore there are hundreds of benefits I can list. But all I'll do today is just list the first 5 or 6 things that come into my head. and hopefully that'll be enough to get you thinking, actually, yeah, this water thing does sound pretty important. Maybe I should drink a bit more. So firstly, we've got the fact that water can help prevent and even reverse chronic constipation. Now, every year we're having more and more people roll into the doctor's office, you know, claiming to be constipated, asking for medications, etc., and quite often these people could help themselves just by making sure that they're drinking more water. Because one of the first places the body goes for water once we become dehydrated is the colon, which obviously is going to end up backing you up because it's going to be harder to pass your waste, which obviously isn't ideal for anyone. So with many of these cases, not all of course, but many of them, they could be obviously prevented just by these people taking in additional fluids. You've also got the fact that all of the chemical reactions that take place in the body take place in water. Now there are trillions and trillions of chemical reactions that go on throughout the body each day, and all of them take place in water. So if you aren't sufficiently hydrated, of course these chemical reactions that are going on in order to keep your body functioning as it should, they're not going to take place as efficiently as they should. So therefore you won't be quite as healthy, or your body won't function as efficiently as it should. Also, there's the fact that as little as a 1% drop in hydration can result in a temporary strain on the heart and a short-term drop in aerobic endurance. Now, I don't know about yourselves, but personally, I don't want any strain on my heart unless I choose to put it on there by maybe going to exercise or something like that. You know, I don't want my fluid intake or my daily drinking habits to impact obviously the work or the stress load of my heart because obviously it's finding it harder to pump the blood around my system because I'm dehydrated. You've also got the fact that lack of hydration results in inefficient cell function. Now, if you know anything about the body and how it's made up, everything is made of cells. Your organs, your muscles, your skin, hair, eyes, bones, etc. It's all made of cells. Now, if these cells are unable to function as efficiently as they should, ultimately the organ, the muscle, the tissue, or whatever it is that they make up isn't going to function optimally either. So that's another reason why it's a good idea to make sure you're drinking plenty of water each day and staying optimally hydrated. The fifth reason could be the fact that water has no calories. So if, for instance, your goal is fat loss, water wouldn't be responsible for pushing you over any daily calorie limits that you may have set yourself. You know, if you said, "Oh, well, I can't eat any more than 2,000 calories a day," water won't be responsible for pushing you over that. So therefore will not be responsible for any additional weight gain you may experience or obviously stagnation. You know, if you don't lose water this week— sorry, lose fat this week, it's not going to be because of your water intake, you know, your daily drinking habits, because water has no calories. So there you go, 5 simple reasons why you should be drinking more water. Hopefully, as I say, it's got you thinking, yeah, this stuff is pretty important, and If you're unsure how much water you should be drinking, feel free to check out our video on how much, and that will give you a simple equation you can use using your own body weight to find out how much is optimal for you. Thanks for watching, guys. As always, any questions, concerns, head on over to titanhealth.com, post your comments below this video, and I should get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks for watching. So, did you like this video? If so, why not subscribe to our channel, and feel free to share this video with all of your friends or anybody that you feel may benefit. And if you'd like additional health and/or performance advice, get yourselves over to www.titanhealth.com and sign up for email updates.
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