PSA (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 
You! Get up and go drink some water. Now. You're dehydrated.

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[–] 54 points 5 months ago* (22 children)

Of course coffee counts. It's still water and has no salt. It will not be close to enough, but still.

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  • [+] -9 points 5 months ago (19 children)

    You do need salt, or that water just instantly becomes piss.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (16 children)

    Wow xD

    Idk, just, no? Bottled water or water from the tap or whatever all has no salt.

    We do need a certain amount of salt, but it doesn't need to come from the water, drinks do not need to be isotonic to hydrate you.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    That's really not the case. Most tap water and bottled water have some salt and the amount varies widely by brand/location.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Guess which water is used for the coffee buddy xD

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Caffeine in the coffee is a diuretic though. It'll make you lose more water through urination than if you drank the equivalent volume in just water.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Sure, but drinking any amount of caffeine will result in more water being excreted than if you have no caffeine, right?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    And no water at all is worse than water from coffee. Do you know what a net positive is?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yes. I don't need the snark thank you ❤️

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

    Nope, only true in extreme cases. I was curious about that years ago, and while it might make you need to urinate more frequently, it doesn't actually make you urinate more volume unless you consume way more caffeine than your body is used to. Now, alcohol on the other hand, anything over like 3-5% ABV does have a net dehydrating effect.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Not enough to offset the amount of water you take, look it up if you want. It does make you empty your bladder and that might be more water than what you just drank, but then your bladder takes a while to fill again. It doesn't really make you generate enough urine to offset what you drank at all.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Coffee does count, btw. The amount of water used to make coffee counteracts the diuretic effect. This is pretty common knowledge.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I know. It's just that I tend to drink multiple espressos a day (be it at home because it's delicious or at work because of social functions) but completely forget to actually hydrate myself despite being thirsty AF.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago*

    Coffee is always the answer. Full stop. Do you need hydration? Coffee. Do you need a friend or something to hold? That's right, Coffee. Do you have to stop to pee every 30 minutes on a road trip? You guessed it, still Coffee!

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Coors light it is, thanks meme.

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    Jokes on you, I have a cold and have been drowning myself in water, tea and orange juice

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    But I just layed down after having one. You want me to get up again?

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

    But, but…. I’m on the toilet right now.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Jokes on you I drank some coke after a nap

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    *Sips broth from instant-ramen*

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I was debating whether I should get out of bed and go get a glass of water, and then I saw this post, thanks op!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    The bottom text on the picture says that coffee doesn’t count. Sorry!

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I am in a place that requires bottled water. And bottled water costs money. But a fast food chain has a special: 1.50USD, and you get a free coffee once every 2 hours for 30 days.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Why do they require you to have bottled water

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

    Tap water isn't safe in asia outside of Japan, and in much of Japan it tastes like chlorine once you notice it.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's why I only drink water sanitized with 40% ethanol. Zero chlorine. Bacteriologically super safe. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 5 months ago

    Wow that's actually genius!

    Since there is a little less water than in pure water, we could call it "little water". And brand it with a foreign sounding name because that's cool. Maybe a Slavic language?

    We're onto something here.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Oh interesting, we refill these big 5 gallon jugs at local water filter places for drinking and cooking water. Never tested how clean or anything it is but it does keep our dishes like the coffee pot from getting hardspots like the tap water does

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

    I guess the fast food place is really close to where you work? How do they afford to offer this? Like they get bulk sanitized water, or have their own filtering system? Or is it safe to just boil and use?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I guess the fast food place is really close to where you work? How do they afford to offer this? Like they get bulk sanitized water, or have their own filtering system? Or is it safe to just boil and use?

    It's a 15 minute walk or a 5 minute ebike ride, but the rideshare moped costs an extra 15 cents each way. But the fast food place is all over China so it's available whatever city I picked that month.

    They have a filtering system, I can boil water, but then I don't get free coffee.

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

    My cup of tea was unsatisfying, but water is also unsatisfying, task initiation broken

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Something something throw the ring in the fire!

    Something something No.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    You're not my mum!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    For my ex wife, I got one of those bottles with time markers. Sounds like the solution, but she was not able to maintain it: Know where it is, keep it clean etc.

    Water is no miracle drug, but when dehydrated, it really is. That applies to many deficiencies, such as oxygen in the air, micronutrients, macronutrients.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    But I just sat down 😭

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I drank too much tea and my mouth is dry.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    We live in an age where sociopaths get votes and people overhydrate in response to propaganda from Coca Cola. 🤦‍♂️

    The "8 glasses of water a day" thing is literally just made up by employees of Coca Cola. To sell more aquafina. Never quite understood how people believe that peeing every 20 minutes makes one healthier. There's no evidence for it.

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

    AKA 1945 US Food and Nutrition Board? Because that's where it seems to come from.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago*

    Apparently I was victim to a widely circulated myth. Apparently though, that board also specified that most of that recommendation was covered by water within food. The "IT HAS TO BE ACTUAL PURE WATER" thing was added on later by others.

    So where did the myth of the 8 glasses come from? Fox says it likely stems from a decree from the U.S. Food and Nutrition Board issued back in the 1940s. It suggested that everyone drink 2.5 liters (84.5 ounces) per day — so not far off from today's standard. But even back then, that same recommendation clarified that a majority of that water comes, not from a glass, but from "prepared foods."

    Source: https://www.tuftsmedicine.org/about-us/news/medical-myths-drink-8-glasses-water-each-day

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago*

    I'm pretty sure people have been drinking water for millennia and everyone was fine without constantly carrying water bottles around.

    It's almost like our bodies have evolved a way of telling us when we are starting to get dehydrated. I think we should call this feeling "thirsty".

    So the best thing to do is to listen to your body and drink some water when it's telling you you're "thirsty". There's really no need to force yourself to drink when you're not thirsty.

    An oracle once told me that "a mere 1% to 2% drop in total body water triggers the sensation of thirst."

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