The Struggle (mander.xyz)
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[–] 112 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I've been preaching this for quite a while now. If I have to post it again, so be it:

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  • [–] 151 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It wouldn't be surprising if a person who was drinking too little water was also getting too little sleep and too little exercise, so they could have multiple sources for the same symptoms.

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    [–] 81 points 7 months ago (44 children)

    I’ve found that once I increased my salt intake (along with my water intake) my brain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, and pee went away.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    How can you not be getting enough salt?? We don’t need that much and it’s in basically everything

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

    Maybe? Maybe not. It’s expensive to test for, and cheaper to treat the symptoms. And I can monitor my vitals myself.

    Finest healthcare in the world!

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Obviously I don’t know anything about you but I have cystic fibrosis so I lose a TON of salt and do need a high salt diet, some people who carry the cystic fibrosis gene express it fairly strongly and need more salt… could be something unusual like that I guess

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Mango chili LMNT packet in 40oz of ice water is my go to fav.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    LMNT is awesome! Mango chili low key scares me. πŸ˜‚

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    This conversation got me super excited to try it, only to see that it costs 3x as much as Powerade Zero packets. Since we easily chew through a 10pack of packets a week, I can't bring myself to have her try it.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I understand. It is costly. I use it because of its potency and other ingredients. But I am open to suggestions for better products.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    We tried the cheapest stuff Amazon will sell and went back to Powerade Zero.

    The next step is trying to build your own electrolyte drink, but that is a recipe for disaster.

    Puns aside, I was concerned about giving myself an electrolyte imbalance. I asked the doctor about it and they told me to just eat food, weirdo (sass for dramatic emphasis, but I definitely got the look I give end users when they ask stupid questions).

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (14 children)

    Consider also reducing your sugar intake!

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    I really struggle with this one. I love sugary treats. Chocolate, fizzy drinks, etc.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    With fizzy drinks I found it very easy to shift towards flavored seltzers instead of it's the fizz specifically. And if it's sodas... Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular due to the mix of multiple sweeteners. Totally different from diet sodas which usually just use one or two, usually aspartame which also has a strong aftertaste.

    If possible for chocolate, higher quality products often will hit that craving better than the cheap candy bar type stuff with 5x the amount of sugar.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Be somewhat wary of artificial sweeteners, most of them are relatively new and so have unwanted side effects ore unknown side effect. (I geuss it's like vaping : better than smoking but not great). Some known ones include : --cancer-- (edit : the cancer part is wrong aparently, see coment bellow) and obesity because you body cranks your calorie retention to the max (it sees a full can of something that tastes very much like sugar go in and no calories come out so it goes "wow, i'm really bad at extracting and storing energy. Let's improve that ! And you get fucked next time you eat sugar) anyways, as with everything, be mindfull with consumption

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Some known ones include : cancer and obesity because you body cranks your calorie retention to the max

    The aspartame cancer study is a complete joke. They fed those mice a x1000 higher concentration of sweetener than any human would ever eat

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It gets easier if you go 100% cold turkey for a few months; I stopped any kind of refined sugar in like 2016 and now more subtle sweetnesses stand out, and the occasion I eat things like ice cream with chocolate or a glazed jelly donut makes me physically ill.

    I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice? Why is there so much??

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice?

    Even more amazing is that people paint the Monster logo (the three claw marks) on their fucking cars. Imagine getting your sense of self-worth from your overpriced energy taurine drink of choice.

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I think with a lot of these health trends, it doesn't take account for the fact that humans are animals.

    Animals can't always guarantee they'll get enough water, or enough food, or the right kinds of food. Bodies aren't like a machine that requires specifically calibrated amounts of inputs. Instead if you drink too much you'll pee out more. If you drink too little your pee will be more concentrated so your body retains more liquid. If you get more nutrients than you need, the extra will be eliminated.

    It's probably true that with many things (except calories) it's better to get a bit too much rather than too little. Maybe it's true that for water it's better to get nearly the maximum rather than slightly more than the midpoint amount. But, it seems unlikely to me.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This has always interested me, especially when I've read here and there that issues such as obesity is much more accurate as being a diet problem rather than an exercise problem. Not that the latter doesn't help at all, certainly.

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  • Yeah it's a lot easier to eat less calories than it is to burn off that many. 100 calories is like a bag of crisps or so (depends on what) but 100 calories is also about 10 minutes of running which is a lot more work than just eating less. Not that you shouldn't run but if you're trying to lose weight it has a much bigger impact to stay at a calorie deficit.

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  • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Me before drinking lots of water: depressed

    Me after drinking lots of water: depressed, but hydrated

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    if you dont drink the pee, that's your problem, like that you just waste the water, you have to put it back

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I like peeing. Feels good man.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Can I see please πŸ₯ΊπŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ

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    • At best, if it as as good as it's said, it helps your liver, kidneys and bladder by getting rid of noxious substances faster and at lower concentration levels.
    • As worst, if it has no benefits at all, you piss more often.

    Unlike most "health" trends out there "drink more water" will be very good in the mid and long term if it works and only mildy inconvenient if it doesn't, so logically it seems worth trying unless you're in the kind of situation where taking a piss is somehow dangerous.

    IMHO, people going for "convenience today" above all else is behind most of the shitty trends in most present day societies, and I don't just mean it in health terms.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    I am one of the OG hydro homies and it legit changed my life drinking more water. Skin cleared up (acne wasn't terrible, but there was almost always some blemish), lost weight (less soda, less hunger in general), reduced stomach issues (helped with getting regular and not binging, just better general gut feeling), no more UTI's.

    I also get to pee like 4 times throughout the day at work which just helps break up the day.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, it's over hyped.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    You are not drinking more water, the average adult drinks too little, you're drinking enough.

    edit: less -> little

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    ....... Do you guys not enjoy a good piss?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    But, but, it's 3am and I just drank 40 beers in Tijuana. It must be a water related issue.

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    Unless you are dehydrated drinking more water is of minimal benefit. Unless you're replacing other unhealthy drinks with water, but that's got little to do with the water.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It does seem like the "drink more water" propaganda which has gripped the US for many years now, has been an extremely succesful campaign for getting more Americans to lessen their sugary drink intake in favour of water. That is objectively a good thing.

    The downside is all the Americans preaching to everyone else in the world on the internet about it, even though most of us already didn't drink excessive amounts of sugary drinks.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Look up how cells handle oxydation, radicals. More liquid helps.

    Btw, the average adult drinks less than recommended.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    See the trick is you gotta combine that with eating more fiber!

    Then your will piss more and you will poop better.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    After completely cutting fibre from my diet my poop has been easier than ever before, my water intake is unchanged except I don't find I drink enough anymore to turn my pee perfectly clear

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    It works. You dont feel hungry.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    my dude, i agree, but you've been doing that for what, three years? that doesn't really seem healthy.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    It's literally on my clipboard. Zero effort. Sentiment is still the same.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Someone posts a screenshot of something they saw that they liked from reddit and your response is to shout at the top of your lungs (or as close as this platform lets you get to that) "fuck spez". It's not about effort, it's about intent and focus.

    Like, I'm glad you have a hobby, but would you be open to discussing other things? I really like cooking. I'll talk about food with pretty much anyone. What was in the best enchilada you ever had?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    If ur constantly peeing ur probably drinking too much water. This is one of those things you don't really notice when you're doing it right, but it will drag you down if you are constantly dehydrated.

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