An Explanation of Water and Your Body
A look at how water works in your body, and how to make it work better.
Update March 2015 — Due to how many of you read this article and left comments and questions, I’ve expanded the research and have written more about drinking water and how it affects your heath here: www.explainedhealth.com. Be sure to stop by some time after you read this article!
Recently, I realized that I’ve been feeling pretty dehydrated no matter how much I drank, and was feeling an overall lack of energy and clear thinking. Part of this is due to it being winter. Another part is being active most nights of the week in one sport or another and sweating out my body’s water. But then part of me started thinking that why, no matter how much water I drink, am I always thirsty?
So I started researching everything about water and the body. From most of my questions, I found some answers, and other questions provided some pretty basic answers that didn’t get me anywhere.
I’ve set this up below in the form of questions with the answers I found. Hopefully at least one of these will answer something you’ve been wondering, or at least make you smarter. Feel free to astonish your friends with knowing more than them on this subject.
