I personally am really into fitness and drink approximately 4 L every day.
I probably use the bathroom every 40 min-1hr.
EDIT: now i consciously think about i definitely do not go every 40 min-1hr…. kind of interested now to see how many times i go… maybe i should keep a tally
I always find it intriguing seeing how much water other people drink.
Please feel free to discuss!
Paired with eating a healthy diet and exercising, its causes no concerns.
4L to 5L per day here!
you've written 2L at the top of your post
@garetz: yes, like we knew it was 5 and not a 2….for those who were ignorant. also dying from drinking too much water?! oh please….the worst is you going to take a piss more often than if you had drank less…. same goes for juice and other liquids, like beer.
@Zachary: Actually there have been people dying from drinking too much water. Its rare but can happen as your body can only handle so much water in the system at one time.
Generally i thought 2L or a bit above was meant to be the optimal amount and if you go far more than that then you are actually over hydrating and thats not meant to be as healthy for your body but i am not sure how accurate that is, its just something that i have read a few times.
I do weight training every day and i reckon i lose close to 1 L of water in sweat
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h…
Mayo clinic also recommends the following:
About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids for men
About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women
Fluids does not mean just water.
Right below the information you referenced it says
These recommendations cover fluids from water, other beverages and food. About 20 percent of daily fluid intake usually comes from food and the rest from drinks.
Have considered this, just upped my daily chip intake to counteract
That's simply not true.
People who drink 5L regularly probably have some condition contributing or directly causing polydipsia.
It's like someone listening to loud music whilst walking. The loud music doesn't kill them. Getting hit by a bus OTOH…
Or just do allot of exercise….
Yeah but over 5L is quite a fair bit unless you're a pro athlete.
I used to run a lot and even then I think my daily is less than 4L.
@[Deactivated]: I do like 2 cardio sessions at the moment and 1 gym sesh (2-3 hours a day all up)
I drink like 5-8L/day… that being said i do sweat allot compared to most people
@CWarn123: 8L per day!!
That is extremely high if you're not doing something like manual labor in the sun all day. Even then you should be ingesting electrolytes or you will suffer hyponatremia.
@lunchbox99: Coconut water, avocado and gatorade powder :D
Have always had allot of water though … didn't think it was this weird
Yes it is.
Overhydration is a real thing and can kill you
https://www.healthline.com/health/overhydration
Haha tshow is right.
Not sure why you are getting negs.
The causes of non psychogenic polydipsia are actually quite rare.
What people don't realise is that kidneys are amazing at concentrating or diluting urine to conserve water or save water.
What gets people into trouble with excess water consumption is when you replace loss of salt and water (through sweating or diarrhoea) with just water. This can result in low blood salt levels which can be very dangerous.
The other interesting thing to know about the kidneys is the part of the kidneys which are really important for concentrating your urine is this thing called a concentration gradient. Simply, the concentration of fluid in your kidney is higher in some parts than others creating a "gradient" allowing you to concentrate urine. If you habitually drink too much water(hard to give an exact number but probably more than 3-4L/day) you can basically reduce this gradient so you can't concentrate urine as well. This means you still pee lots of dilute urine if you stop drinking excess water and then get thirsty and feel the urge to drink water. (The gradient goes back to normal if you restrict your fluid intake for a while)
Not sure why you are getting negs.
Because if they Google excess water causing death, they will find the answer they want to hear.
Anyone who would otherwise upvote that comment wouldn't have read it as it is pointing out the obvious.
My urologist colleague would agree. He says that the 2+litres/day myth was started by bottled water marketers, and is perpetuated by gyms. If we get a good percentage of water from our food, e.g. plenty of veg, leafy greens, 1.5—2 litres is quite adequate. The exception is pro-athletes, and they are careful to manage electrolytes, etc. He's had a number of cases of people who've wrecked their kidneys and messed up their systems from quaffing water all day long. The job of the kidneys is to concentrate urea, so if your urine is almost clear, you're drinking too much.
Dr Berg (popular YouTuber) also agrees it's a myth.
He even thinks 3-8 glasses per day is fine.
He did the research and can't see where the 2L (and up) came from. He found no studies.
More than 2 litres is my goal, if I drink more than that I might as well work in the toilet as I have small bladder. :)
I only drink when I’m thirsty
I've read this is the recommended approach from the medical community. Rather than targeting a set amount, drink water when your body indicates that it needs hydration i.e. you feel thirsty.
I have also read that if you actually feel thirsty it means you are already dehydrated and should have been drinking more earlier.
I only generally drink a couple of coffees a day and the rest of my fluid intake is water. Will be anywhere from 500ml-2L I would expect, but I don't measure it in any way at all. But 3-4 glasses that are about 400mls each, sometimes more, sometimes less.
If this were the case I'd not drink anything. For a large portion of my life, I'd drink a sip of water after a meal to clear my mouth and that was it.
Me: less than 1L but more than 750ml. I only drink when i'm thirsty.
Makes sense considering early humans didn’t have consistent ways to measure liquids and they did alright.
They also had a shorter life expectancy. Not saying this was the cause but we know more now than we did back then about a lot of things.
Dunno
Not as much as I should be. Most of the water I consume, I guess, comes from food. But from actually drinking a bottle/glass of water, not much.
You need to consume fluids not water.
Other things like tea, coffee or juice etc still count to your fluid intake
And some fluids dehydrate you too like alcohol.
That really only happens if you have shots.
Things like beer do not dehydrate you as the net hydration is still positive.
@spaceflight: Pretty sure I've heard otherwise, Dr Karl has repeatedly said something along the lines one beer in, 1.2 beers out, so if you have 5 beers, you will need 6 similar sized waters to compensate.
@colaman: No its not
Beer ~ 95% water 5% alcohol
If beer dehydrates then
Alcohol is 20 times more dehydrating than water is hydrating.
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jappl.1997.…
"These results suggest that alcohol has a negligible diuretic effect when consumed in dilute solution after a moderate level of hypohydration induced by exercise in the heat. There appears to be no difference in recovery from dehydration whether the rehydration beverage is alcohol free or contains up to 2% alcohol, but drinks containing 4% alcohol tend to delay the recovery process."
I’ve had a water tracking bottle for a while now and I feel like I’ve trained my thirst: when I first started using it I was getting drunk reminders all the time, but now I generally feel thirsty and stay ahead of my target.
The app changes the target according to the weather forecast and level of activity I’ve been doing
If you keep getting drunk reminders, maybe it's time to put down the schooner mate.
Sorry I was driving when I wrote that :p
Pre covid I would drink about 3L a day at work when bored and wanting to snack. Now at home, I’m probably closer to the 1.5-2 mark because the snacks are plentiful.
How much water is there in a beer?
~95% apparently.
That's great news! It means I get around an extra 1.8L of water every night.
You probably should be drinking more 😂
haha weed alcohol bro
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your urine must be extremely yellow
nope, pretty clear actually
would you say your healthy?
@Zachary: Gee thanks for the ground breaking tip
Yes I know it’s bad, but love being in flavour country
@Donaldhump: well, regardless how healthy you think you are - i dont like the smell of smoke…..gets me everytime…..
Water water? About 1L.
But if we included aged grape juice, I'd make the recommended volume.
does coffee count?
Yes it does :)
-vely.
Isn't it a diuretic? I don't do well with caffeine in my system if I'm doing a 2hr long martial arts class.
Caffeine is a diuretic however a caffeinated drinks still hydrates you.
https://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/is-coffee-hydrating-ot…
I drink two 750ml bottles of water a day and a lot of tea when I'm at work. This changes at the weekend where I hardly drink any water.
Pretty silly poll if just restricted to water.
It also depends what else people drink and eat. Some foods have a lot of water in it such as soups and smoothies or fruits and vegetables.
I don't know why you are getting negative votes.
Fluid intake is important, not just water.
The OP even linked to it article about it and used fluid intake to justify water intake.
Easier to measure how much water you drink as opposed to fluid which may or may not count towards your intake which also includes certain foods.
Easier to measure how much water you drink as opposed to fluid
No it isn't.
And you don't need to have a certain amount of water. It includes all fluids.
And there's no point measuring one thing and drinking a set amount of that thing when everything else you drink also counts to the daily intake.
It's like drinking a flat white and saying you only drunk 30ml of coffee because it only had a 30ml shot of espresso in it.
as opposed to fluid which may or may not count towards your intake
All fluids count towards your fluid intake.
which also includes certain foods.
You get about 20% if your daily fluids from foods.
@spaceflight: So you are saying if I fill a cup of water it isn't a cup.of water??????
I never said anything about drinking a set amount.
@colaman: Yes if you fill a cup with water you have a cup of water.
But if you drink a cup of water plus a cup of orange juice and then say you have only had a cup of water because it is "easier to measure how much water you drink as opposed to fluid" then you're an idiot because you've just drunk 2 cups of fluid.
Both count to your daily fluid intake, not just the water
@spaceflight: You do realise that a cup of any type of fluid does not equal one cup of water. This is about hydration. Your theory sounds like 2 litres of any fluid keeps you hydrated and that is plain wrong.
Some foods and liquids are going to make you dehydrate meaning you are going to need to consume more water.
@colaman: I assumed you had common sense and understood that I did not mean things like car engine oil to count as a fluid. Drink it if you want.
Read my comment in context and the link in it.
The OP is using an article and saying that
Mayo clinic also recommends the following:
About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids for men
About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women
While ignoring the paragraph under that which says
These recommendations cover fluids from water, other beverages and food. About 20 percent of daily fluid intake usually comes from food and the rest from drinks.
You do not need to drink those quantities of pain water.
And if you consume diuretic foods/liquids then you going to need to consume more water.
That really only applies to things high in alcohol and salt.
Something like a coffee which people assume is a diuretic still net hydrating
Because it's just a stupid/curious internet poll - Not medical research to be peer reviewed.
If you drink more water than your body/kidney can process, it’ll cause sodium levels in your blood to drop and cause havoc to your organ/brain function. Happened to an elderly person I know, had to be hospitalised for a week!
and it has to be an extreme amount of water for that to happen. You would have to literally force yourself to drink that amount of water…..
im guessing the one guy who negged you reckons youre lying….
Probably the same guy that +1 your comment!
probably…
i don't have a brain so no problem here.
no brain = no worries.
You should drink enough to stop your pee going darker in colour and less than enough to make it clear. Err on the side nearer clear. If it’s clear all the time you are having too much. How often you pee is not relevant to how much water you need so don’t limit your water to how often you pee. And don’t go bragging to everyone how much you drink or how much they should drink as it just pisses them off. Yeah that’s right.
id probably trust doctor reccomendations over old mate Mr MontyMacaw on the interwebs over here.
please see below.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h…
Mayo clinic also recommends the following:
About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids for men
About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women
Fun fact- Women are more efficient!
Try this from someone who has researched it in detail https://www.outsideonline.com/1900801/tim-noakes-serious-pro…
Fluids is not the same as drinking water. This includes water from food.
This is literally the next paragraph of the same text.
How much actual water you drink will be heavily influence by your diet, if you eat a watermelon a day, you probably don't need to drink any extra water.
If your diet is corn chips, you need to drink more.
Well said sir
@t2kb123: Which brings us back to my comment. I think you will find the Mayo Clinic summary when read in FULL would concur with my suggestion only mine cover all different varieties of people. It’s not a one size fits all, not a one situation fits all and not a one climate fits all scenario but more a result after having the correct amount of hydration :-p
Stop misrepresenting what your sources are staying. Please read the whole thing before you quote it.
It is not just water
Fluids does not mean just water.
Right below the information you referenced it says
These recommendations cover fluids from water, other beverages and food. About 20 percent of daily fluid intake usually comes from food and the rest from drinks.
With ZERO research cited (because no RCT have ever been conducted) nor regards to a nephrologists view (kidneys fail earlier when they have to work hard; increased frequency of peeing = working harder).
Little publicized fact; overall kidney function is directly proportional to how well it can concentrate urine!
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You are flushing out a lot of vital nutrients if you drink excessively .
All this "recommendation" depends on the individual and their environment.
this "recommendation" is usually based off the average person i.e. relatively inactive person. Therefore if you do anything more than essentially nothing you probably need more.
But yes everything is subjective.
How much fibre is in your diet as well! Metamucil is nice!
I often only drink water for several days in a row. Not because of fitness, but because im saving money! food = $$$
My urine is always fluorescent yellow so probably not enough. Funnily though, since I bought a nice water bottle that keep it chilled for a long time I'm drinking it regularly at my desk which I would never do before with room temp water.
gday sarg, do you happen to take vitamin c supplements by any chance? that can also make your urine really yellow
Nah, i need water
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