My Experience Microdosing Water (Part 1)

We’ve all heard horror stories about flash floods and swimming pool accidents. And drinking water has many well-known negative side effects: urination, sweating, crying, and wet mouth syndrome (WMS). So when I started hearing stories about innovators in Silicon Valley experimenting with water, I was skeptical.

That is until my friend, Greg (not his real name) told me he’d been trying it. Greg is the founder of a popular non-GMO micro-crust pizza delivery startup in San Francisco. Every year, he creates beautiful Burning Man floats from the remains of demolished public schools.

“Since I started microdosing water,” Greg told me, “I’ve had more energy and creative flow. I was microdosing water when I invented the Spirulina Lover’s, our most popular pizza!”

The key, he said, was carefully measuring the “microdose.” Too much water could produce negative side effects, like WMS. But just enough — one teaspoon per hour — and I would unlock my brain’s potential to enter flow states and innovate endlessly, while making sure my gums maintained the texture and rigidity of terra cotta.

As an entrepreneur and nomadic creative, I am always looking for new ways to hack my productivity. So I decided to take the plunge.

Watch this space as I begin consuming one teaspoon of water per hour for an entire week.

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