Podcast Episode 19: Hydration Facts & Fiction (with transcription)
Sep 20, 2022
Welcome to the 19th episode of the True Health Solutions Podcast with Dr. Lonnie Bagwell and Brigitte Spurgeon.
There is so much misinformation about hydration, which can make it difficult to take the steps you need to take to stay healthy.
In this episode, we discuss hydration myths versus facts and why it is important for your health to stay hydrated. We also discuss what can happen to your body when you don't drink the water you need as well as the types of water you should and should not be drinking.
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Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (00:00):
So many people come in, we run stool tests, and, you know, and, and we're seeing like lots of microbiome deficiency. But all that was because they spent 30 years not drinking water, and they're living with gas and belo and arable bowel syndrome. Welcome to the True Health Solutions Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, stress, inflammation and functional health clinician.
Brigitte Spurgeon (00:17):
And I'm your co-host Brigitte Spurgeon Metabolism and nutrition expert.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (00:21):
This podcast is where we bring hope, truth, and inspiration for your holistic health journey
Brigitte Spurgeon (00:26):
Because the world needs the best version of you.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (00:31):
Hello and welcome to True Health Solutions Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, here with
Brigitte Spurgeon (00:35):
Brigitte Spurgeon.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (00:36):
The Brigitte Spurgeon. And today we're gonna be talking about a topic, uh, another topic that we talk about, uh, almost daily in the office or on the phone with patients. Um, and, and this is one where, where, because of the importance of it, we choose to talk about this repeatedly. It's not always just the patient quizzing us about it, right? Like we make sure that this is a part of all of the consults we do. It's just, it, it affects actually, when we're doing chiropractic talking about pain and inflammation, we're talking about, uh, GI health and, um, you know, hormones we're talking about weight loss, metabolics energy, all any of those topics. This comes up repeatedly as a cornerstone of the solution to what the patients present us with. And today, what we're talking about is water. We're talking about hydration or dehydration. Uh, and I hope that I, I I think that I wanna make this podcast mandatory for every new patient that starts care in the office or virtually.
(01:30):
Um, because it is just so important. And over the years before I knew better, you know, I would chase, you know, I, I like we're removing interference and we're helping the pa and they wouldn't get better. And then all of a sudden we start saying, Wait a minute, Are you hydrated? Are you drinking water? And then they admit that they're having eight cups of coffee a day in like one glass of water. And we turn the table around on that and all of a sudden they have a major breakthrough with their health, right? Um, and it's a part of even our most advanced protocols, if we're talking cancer, if we're talking like, it's just, we have to be hydrated properly. And so that's what today is all about. And, uh, we thought that we would kick off this episode, uh, with a little bit of fact versus fiction.
(02:07):
Uh, when it comes to water, just kind of break the ice here. Um, kind of tackle some of the most common, uh, misconceptions that people, you know, some of the common things that we say we teach to patients or common misconceptions that they come to us with. So, um, I'll say factor fiction, Bridget, you answered. And we can, one of, one of the two of us can jump into it. We're gonna go through it pretty quickly cuz we wanna talk more about some of the, um, advanced understanding concepts clinically when it comes to hydration. But first and foremost, factor fiction, the color of your urine matters.
Brigitte Spurgeon (02:35):
Yes, it does. Fact,
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (02:37):
Fact. Absolutely. Yep. You got it. We don't get this in depth with it, but I think there's a scale of eight different colors where you can rank in like the, the first four indicate hydrated, the second four indicate dehydrated, all that stuff. But color absolutely matters. And what are we going for, you know, for every our listeners right now, uh, what color are we shooting for that that's a simple one that they, they can just look in the toilet without having to get the test strips out.
Brigitte Spurgeon (03:01):
Yeah. So certainly we want clear urine. I think it's great to have these tools to assess our own health and to check on these things. I mean, yes, check your urine, check your poop, check your, you know, we can get into women's health here, you know, check, check your mucus and things like that. So, but this is a, this is an easy one. I certainly, oh boy, have had, I've had races, endurance races where I finished a race and I have had urine that is dark or even bloody and, and things like that. So you don't want to, you don't wanna go that direction, <laugh>.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (03:37):
Exactly. Yep. Pale yellow to clear. And, um, and, uh, we're gonna have to do a, a episode in the future called check your Mucus and we'll talk about hormones and all that good stuff. By the way, thanks for coining that phrase, <laugh>. That's awesome. It's so true though. We talk about it all the time. But people need to, you're right, they need to take, charge their health and start talking about these things. All right. Factor fiction. Um, thirst automatically means that you're dehydrated
Brigitte Spurgeon (04:03):
Fiction.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (04:06):
That's gonna be a tough one for people, but that's true. That's right. That is fiction. Um, and a lot of people know this, but they don't think about it right away is that, uh, you can, you can feel thirsty, but really be hungry, right?
Brigitte Spurgeon (04:19):
Yeah. Or the other
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (04:20):
Way around. You can be, Yeah, right? Or you can have consumed a ton of sodium, ton of salt and your body's telling you that it needs to dilute that, but it's not necessarily a dehydration issue, right? Or spicy food was the other one. The other example. All right, So that's a good one for people to realize. Like they, they, so now what happens? You, you're drinking, uh, you're feeling like you're thirsty and you have to check yourself and just say, What did I just eat? You know, Is my body demanding, you know, eight ounces right now? Or can I maintain my sipping, you know, uh, you know, throughout the hour.
Brigitte Spurgeon (04:51):
The other part of that to remember is sometimes that th thirst mechanism gets dulled or gets turned off due to chronic dehydration. And so someone could say, Well, I'm never thirsty, but they literally could be living in dehydration. And that's just because it's from chronic dehydration, it's been turned off. And then when you start hydrating properly, you'll notice, now you're like, now all of a sudden you're thirsty. It's just because your body's been brought back into homeostasis and now it's functioning properly the way it should.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (05:24):
Right. That's good. And then we get into other clinical stuff. If somebody's listening, we get into liver function, gut function, kidney function, lots of stuff tie into that conversation right there too. Good. Good stuff. All right. Factor fiction, certain groups of people are more susceptible to dehydration than others.
Brigitte Spurgeon (05:40):
Fact.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (05:42):
That's fact. Yep. Absolutely. Um, children more prone to de uh, to, uh, dehydration because of, uh, vomiting and diarrhea, right? The top two causes of dehydration in the world. Um, and so they're definitely susceptible. And then definitely you need to check, uh, side effects or effects, as we call it, of the medications that you're taking. Those are two population groups that are really easily targeted as, you know, high dehydration
Brigitte Spurgeon (06:07):
Risk. And if you carry more body fat, you're gonna be more susceptible as well because of your cellular ma the cellular makeup of, um, fat versus muscle. So it's really interesting. There you go. Because my husband has really low body fat and he, it's like he requires less water
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (06:30):
Opposite of what a lot of people would think, you know? Well, my metabolism's up, so I'm more active, you know, and, and so there's, there's a lot more to the story and a balancing act that has to happen there. Um, fact or fiction, when you are dehydrated, drink as much water as you can.
Brigitte Spurgeon (06:47):
Fiction, I mean, that's, it goes a little bit like that, but <laugh>, but yes. Um, so we're gonna go fiction on that one.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (06:57):
That's right. That is fiction. Um, and you have, it's how we're gonna talk about how we here in a minute, but how you drink actually can hydrate you faster than the volume, right? So it's, it's, it's not just, you know, hook yourself up to the fire hose, uh, factor fiction. Uh, your sleep can affect your hydration
Brigitte Spurgeon (07:16):
Fact.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (07:20):
That's right. That's a fact. <laugh>, um, less than six hours puts you into a dehydrated sleep, uh, dehydrated state. So six hours or less. And that, that person more often wakes up dehydrated versus someone who gets more than six hours often can maintain, uh, higher levels of hydration throughout the night. Of course, all of us dehydrate a little bit through the night, but for the breathing right, respiration, um, factor fiction, uh, if you're dehydrated, then you want to drink liquids only or consume liquids only to rehydrate
Brigitte Spurgeon (07:57):
Fiction back. This
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (07:59):
Is a good quiz.
Brigitte Spurgeon (07:59):
Yeah. Back back to that previous, the previous question, cuz sometimes your body needs something else, right? Gotcha. Yeah.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (08:05):
That, yeah, that, and also 80% of our hydration comes from liquids. 20% actually comes from food that we consume like this, mainly fruits and vegetables. And so because they have a high water content and so, and you can get that water in kind of like, it's like a slow release with the food while you're hydrating and you can get it, you know, obviously, um, from two different places. Um, and then the last one I'll, I'll say here is factor fiction, eight glasses of water a day
Brigitte Spurgeon (08:32):
Fiction.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (08:33):
And that's all I need to say cuz everybody's been hearing that for their whole lifetime, <laugh>, right? Right. We're
Brigitte Spurgeon (08:38):
Polling big time. Everybody's different fiction on that one, <laugh>.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (08:42):
Exactly, Exactly. We just got done talking about color and, and if one person drank eight glasses of water a day and their urine was still dark, they're not hydrated. So it's really, everybody probably has experienced that to some degree, depends on how you're, you know, how hydrated you are to begin with. But the average, the, the study that I just read, um, before this episode said that right now they have it up to 11 glasses of water a day for women and 15 for men. So literally men almost double the last 50 years of recommended glasses of water a day. Uh, again, the whole glasses of water a day is, is a bit arbitrary anyway, regardless, they're just trying to find a better average. But, uh, make sure you're drinking a lot more than just that eight classes of water a day, even male or female.
(09:23):
Um, and then we can get into the discussion around were you active that day? Were you're not active? Was it 30 degrees outside or 80 degrees outside? Right? And then that's gonna cause that number to go up and down as well. Um, so that'll conclude factor fiction as it as it relates to water and hydration. But let's talk more, more clinically about why it's important, um, to stay hydrated because it's more than just how you feel. Although there's a lot of major things that you can feel negative, right? If you're dehydrated. Um, and I, I was, I was like, I was really pleasantly surprised preparing for this because we have kind of our approach to health, uh, true health starts with a foundation of neurological function, gut health, uh, metabolic and, you know, energy systems working properly, and then we get into nutrition and detox, all those things, right?
(10:07):
And I was really pleasantly surprised that it was a lot less minutia to sift through. And really everything that I was reading, multiple articles pulling up, it was saying that the biggest reasons why you stay hydrated were guess what? Brain function, gut function, metabolic systems. It was really speaking to the, the core issues with people's health nowadays. So, um, so that was encouraging to me because a lot of times we talk about hydration with patients, we gotta sift through what they've read on the internet or what their friends told 'em. And it's, it's a lot of these myths and a whole lot of like superficial discussion, you know, and, and people, the problem there is that people don't get the importance of it. And so the urgency isn't there to stay hydrated and then, you know, therefore, you know, we end up having to talk about it all the time and see a lot of sick people because of it. But, um, for everybody listening, um, give us a little bit of a primer on why hydration, um, is important as it relates to things that you see on a more consistent basis with patients, you know, metabolically or otherwise.
Brigitte Spurgeon (11:02):
Yeah, so a couple things, and I'll even start off. You know, we, we all want great cognitive performance. We all want good memory recall and, you know, a clear mind and be able to make decisions and things like that. And so like our brains are 95% water. In fact, if we look at all of our tissue, that's the most hydrated tissue in our body. So it just makes sense that we need to keep that hydrated. So literally when you just, when you get a certain percentage dehydrated automatically your cognitive function is gonna be the first to, to go down. So that, that's gonna be really important. Then we're looking at, at circulation. Um, so, you know, that's how that, that's how our nutrients are getting around our body. That's obviously our, our blood, like our hearts pumping. Our, our blood and our blood is 83% water.
(11:57):
So we have to get, and, and that's gonna affect things like our blood pressure. And then, you know, I, so I spoke about earlier about, you know, when someone is carrying more body fat, um, when they have a higher percentage body fat. And so it's interesting cuz fat cells are 10% hydrated when muscle cells are 80% hydrated. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So, so if you have, if you have, you know, more than 50% of your body is body fat, then your percentage, the, the percentage of which your body is hydrated at a cellular level is automatically less. You're already behind the eight ball just because of your tissue makeup. And so you, you know, the reason why for me as a clinician, that hydration is so important because, you know, when I practice it's not just about the number on the scale and it's not just about helping someone lose weight because guess what, you can help someone lose weight by abstaining, by dry fasting <laugh>.
(12:57):
But is that, you know, is that help, you know, necessary, you know, the way to help your body heal and things like that. And so, um, we, we want our, our patient's bodies to start healing from the inside out. We wanna decrease inflammation. We, we want to support the detoxing pathways, we wanna support cellular health, we wanna support GI function. Um, you know, we, we wanna overcome constipation. We, you know, we wanna support cognitive function and things like that. So, so we wanna look at the body holistically and we want the organ, the whole organism to function well. And that's just going to be foundational.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (13:37):
Yeah, that's good. I'll extrapolate on a couple of those things cuz people like, like the brain, uh, neurological support of proper hydration, um, it affects memory, mood, cognitive function, but it, and which you had mentioned some of that, but it also affects, um, even, uh, emotions. So even emotions that people experience. And by the way, the percentage on that it, how, so what percentage dehydrated do I need to be in order to, for it to affect my emotions or my ability to calculate two plus two or, you know, carry myself through the day through meetings and all, you know, to have that proper, you know, uh, neuro adaptability to get through my day. And the number is 2%, 2% dehydration starts cognitive decline, right? And this is why I was talking to another clinician the other day. This is kind of a side note, but totally related to this, is that, uh, you know, why, why we use hydration so much.
(14:26):
I was talking to another clinician and he said when he does Alzheimer's screening on people, he goes, almost 80% of 45 year olds are older are at stage two Alzheimer's because it's a lot of lifestyle stuff like this that actually drives that. We're literally existing, 45 year olds are older and we're literally existing at a stage two Alzheimer's level. And that's course the, the medical, uh, model, you know, their, their scale. It's not some alternative scale for determining Alzheimer's, which is, is. So it's totally crazy that we would allow for ourselves to live in that state, you know, at least partially related to hydration, right? So neurological, if there was only one reason as always that you would stay hydrated, it would be to have a healthy nervous system, right? Uh, but then you mentioned digestion. Definitely. Like so many people come in, we run stool tests and you know, and we're seeing like lots of microbiome deficiency, but all that was because they spent 30 years not drinking water and they're living with gas and bloat and arable bowel syndrome, right?
(15:18):
And then, um, and then when you don't have proper oxygen being transported to the brain, right? Um, because you're dehydrated and you actually have your heart that's having to work more, uh, you know, because to actually drive oxygen around, so the combination, so your body, uh, your brain and, and your tissue needs oxygen and if you're hydrated, you can do that more efficiently. If you're not, it's like putting low octane fuel into your car, right? You're just not you, you're not getting a good return on your investment there. Um, or you can look at it the other way, like you're getting the same, you have to get through your day so you have the same amount of energy. It's just costing you way more. Like we're complaining about gas prices still right now, you know, at the time of this recording, right? Bottom line is, is that this is an absolute energy tanker.
(16:00):
Like this is one of the top things that you can do. If you, if your, if your goal for the day is to have less energy and to be frustrated about it, then just don't drink water, right? But if your goal is to have optimal performance, it has to be on a foundation of hydration, right? Um, and then, and then of course something that we deal with on a regular basis actually with, even with virtual patients because of all the inflammation stuff that we do is pain. And you had mentioned, uh, the makeup of the brain, you joints are 80%, uh, water as well and people don't think about that cuz it's the whole joint complex itself. And when you get dehydrated and that joint complex dehydrates, then that's what increases lots of aches and pains and all the joints that we feel. So the people come in all the time and they'll say, I just know I have arthritis here.
(16:41):
I just know I have arthritis there. And we take x-rays and it's like actually there's no arthritis present. You know, the joint's not moving the way that it's supposed to, which is at least in part because of hydration, right? Maybe there's bad biomechanics that we need to correct, but also we need to hydrate that thing. So anybody's listening right now watching, they can see how like, it just, it's a part of our conversation on an ongoing basis, right? And then even when you get into pain and inflammation outside of the joints, um, something that, this actually was something that happened to me with patients, not that I researched and I, I can't take responsibility for it. Um, but fibromyalgia of course has been, you know, constantly on the, on the rise, whatever everybody's opinion diagnosed. Bottom line is, is it's a class of symptoms and many of the symptoms of fibromyalgia are things that we've already mentioned in this podcast, right?
(17:26):
It's this big complex of things and we've already talked about, uh, 75% of them and don't even realize it, right? And so that explains why when I had a fibromyalgia patient, the first one and, and we started teaching lifestyle stuff and nutrition and got her hydrated, the hydration was the first thing that she did. And she reported a 50% reduction in her pain just by being properly hydrated. So I just think about the more importantly the pain is the insanity of the medical mayor go around her life to that point, years of fighting fibromyalgia or whatever that is, right? All these symptoms that she was having and really hydration and, and not once did anybody ever tell her go get properly hydrated. You know, if you wanna reduce some of the pain. So, and of course it applies outside of fibromyalgia, just pain in general, muscle pain in general.
(18:12):
You just said the muscle makeup, right? You can't expect to live pain free and be dehydrated. It just isn't gonna happen that way. Um, and then we get into more advanced clinical things, again, not the, maybe the, the purpose of today's episode, but, uh, you know, I personally experience kidney stones and they are largely in part, if not extremely, largely in part due to having living chronically, chronically dehydrated. I had no one encouraging me to drink water while I was doing year round sports, you know, um, you know, for whatever, eight years of my life. And then, uh, and then later on I started getting kidney stones and we know that that's rooted in dehydration. Um, and the solution for kidney stones, the number one solution is staying hyper hydrated, right? Just keeping fluid flowing constantly in order to combat, continually making 'em. And so, um, and it's a multi-year recovery process once you, once you've been making 'em, cuz it was a multi-year process to get into it.
(19:04):
So can't express, we could go on for another hour talking about like what goes wrong when you don't drink water. Um, but those are some of the biggest things that I think hit, you know, that'll hit 80% of the people watching right now that they've experienced in the last six months according to the actual surveys that we hand out. So, um, so with that said, if we have enough urgency then to stay hydrated, let's teach everybody kind of what to drink and then how to drink it. And I think that'll round out today's episodes. So, um, so what's the best source, uh, of water for, for everyone? Like if you were just talking to the whole population at large, if you were gonna pick one kind of water to drink, what would you say?
Brigitte Spurgeon (19:39):
Yeah, just like a pure, uh, like spring water or, um, yeah, just like a naturally sourced water is going to be the best it, you know, if you're just, you know, that and that if I'm traveling and I'm maybe even looking at bottle balled water, which I don't like to drink, but I'm gonna go for, for a spring water or even an alkaline water there. And, and then I just tell my patients, I encourage them to, you know, definitely use some kind of filtration system and that's a whole nother conversation on levels of, of water filtration. But you wanna get pure water into your body because our, unfortunately in different countries, our just out water out of the faucet, it, there's so many things have been added in there and, and, and it's polluted with things like medications and things like that. So, um, so we do want to do our very best to filter our water and um, honestly, we actually give our patients a, we used to give like a glass bottle now we give a stainless steel bottle because so many people actually, they even just buy and keep in their homes just like, you know, the the like 16 ounces or the 12 ounces bottled waters.
(20:55):
And honestly we just have to be mindful that that plastic is leaching mm-hmm. <affirmative> in, so you are gonna get toxicity from those. I have a story, so I have a history of polycystic ovarian syndrome and it just, one day it dawned on me like, oh my word, like I'm detoxing my life. But the one thing I hadn't stopped doing cuz of convenience was bottled water. And I re, I was actually giving a talk on toxicity and in the talk I was convicted and I said, Oh my word, I have to stop drinking bottled mm-hmm <affirmative> water. And, uh, and, and switching to glass and, and you know, taking water with you from your home, filling up your glass bottles or your stainless steel bottles and taking those to work or taking those for your errands, having water in the car with you so that you can be sipping on water throughout the day, which actually brings us to the, you know, the best way to drink water versus trying to get it all in at once. Sip on it through mm-hmm. <affirmative> throughout the day, that's gonna be optimal for your cellular health.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (21:56):
Absolutely. And um, and one, one quick note on the on cuz I, I think it's important to talk about the, the mineral content and water is really one of the things that makes it amazing, right? Like that's actually what makes it so healthy for our body. It's not just the water, but the fact that it has the right minerals so that we can use it properly, right? And we can retain the water and, you know, and, and generally if you're dehydrated, you, you might also have a mineral deficiency with it. So the, you know, there's some of the bottled waters out there that are better than others, um, when it comes to, um, the mineral content. But when you go into filtration, what I wanted to say was, you, you gotta be careful cuz a lot of people come in and say, Oh, I've been drinking reverse osmosis water for, you know, for the last 10 years.
(22:36):
And while that might take the most things out of the water, it also takes out the things that we want in the water. And so if you do heavy filtration on your water, you have to make sure that you're remineralizing it at least with some kind of drops, but preferably with an actual remineralize, they can actually, um, and it not only does it remineralize it, but it actually changes the shape of the water structure so that it's easier to draw into your body and hydrate with it. So, um, lots more discussion. That's a whole episode by itself, but I, I think it's important to say that, so at least people don't start drinking gallons of reverse osmosis or distilled water or something and, and then all of a sudden they're having other symptoms, you know, because they, they're depleting their body or they're flushing minerals and stuff like that.
(23:19):
Um, and then you did mention, um, how to drink the water. Uh, and you mentioned, um, sipping kind of throughout the day. Yep. I always told people like, if you're gonna have 16 ounces sitting in your, sitting in your glass, you know, um, bottle there, then you wanna try to make it a habit of like every 10 to 15 minutes drinking, you know, four ounces, four ounces, four ounces right throughout the day is ideal. So your body can process it properly and get it into intracellular, uh, which is where hydration really happens. Um, and then the other thing is, uh, and we both agreed on this about, um, you, you really wanna minimally drink, uh, water during your meals so you can maintain proper enzymes in your mouth, digestions that actually starts in the mouth. And so you can just, if you're drinking too much water, you can dilute that ability to digest and put more of a burden on, on your gut, um, you know, with the food that you're eating.
(24:05):
So again, it's not, it's so important, Yes, you want to drink clean water and preferably with a good mineral complex in it, but if you're slamming it, you know, 32 ounces at once and then not drinking for another eight hours, eight hours, you're mostly just urinating that out and flushing minerals outta your system. It's kind of having the opposite effect. You're only gonna hydrate so much from that. And so it's important to make sure that we're doing it correctly, not just cleanly, but correctly. Um, and, uh, what else did we want to talk about when it comes to, when it comes to water, uh, and hydration for our listeners?
Brigitte Spurgeon (24:38):
Yeah. So I'll give you just like a super basic tip here is keeping a gloss of water by your bed when you go to sleep. And so then you can wake up and you can start sipping immediately. And then another recommendation is to do some kind of warm tonic in the morning where you do intentionally add something. So whether that be like a, some lemon juice and apple cider vinegar or some pink salt is beautiful because pink salt has a 80 84 ionic trace minerals. Obviously it's got your naturally sourced, uh, sodium and chloride. So, so what are electrolytes? Electrolytes are those charged minerals, um, that you, you know, that are active in your body. And so just taking in, even if it is like an eighth of a spoon of, or a quarter of a spoon of pink salt in, you know, in a, in a big mug of some warm water in the morning, now you are already replenishing those, those minerals and getting those electrolytes working.
(25:40):
The other thing with the, with the warm water, especially in the morning, what that does, it just like wakes up your organs and helps to get things flowing. It actually supports your liver function and your gallbladder function, getting that bowel duct, um, you know, getting things moving so it can kind of aid and getting digestion and bowel movements going and things like that. So I'm a big fan of the warm water in the morning as far as cold water. Um, I'm actually, I'm not a ice water drinker and uh, you know, I think there can have some metabolic benefit to drinking some ice water. Um, but I would say the only time I do drink ice water is when I'm racing in heat or exercising in e heat. Um, then there is a benefit, um, because of temperature regulation, <affirmative>,
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (26:28):
And it's, and, and when they studied it like that, that it is more refreshing, which is the psychology of it too, right? Like, and that's just something to be spoken of because a lot of the water temperature stuff comes down to preference. There are benefits to the, the, if, if everybody wants to know what's the fastest to rehydrate, that's gonna be your room temperature water, right? Obviously it can ther organically support you warming up and warm your core if you're having warm water, cold water per, um, refreshing and helps, uh, recover a little bit quicker from high exhaustion, you know, like activities and things like that as far as the, the psychology of it. But then also, um, it actually just, uh, helps you kind of cognitively is the word I'm looking for. It actually helps you cognitively kind of bounce back a little bit quicker if you're in a hot environment or something like that.
(27:11):
So, but the bottom line is, and I I kind of said this before, don't let that be a barrier. If you can't get cold, can't get warm or don't have regular, you know, make sure that you're getting hydrated. That's the key. And I love when you talk about in the morning, I guess that's the last thing I'll say about it is that when you talk about drinking water in the morning, it, it, it's, it's not just about avoiding all the negative things that we talked about, but you went through and it really bumps up function of all of the things that you really want. Like you want your brain high functioning and on your side throughout the day, you want your digestive system to not be a hindrance, but to be able to, to metabolically work well to extract nutrients that you need for optimal function and energy throughout the day.
(27:51):
Um, and so, uh, so it, I, and I actually do have a glass, I'll say about 50% of the time I have a glass on my, um, nightstand. I have a couple supplements that I take last thing at night or first thing in the morning that might sit there as well. Um, and, uh, it's a great, it's, it's one of the best habits I think that we can create is the habit around, uh, hydration and no better way to, I mean, and you're really the best hydration is that early in the morning hydration and since I've been, I I've been off caffeine, uh, I've tried it a couple of times, had a little bit here and there, but mainly I've been off caffeine about 99% for, uh, over 18 months now. And so, um, I can absolutely speak to hydrating first thing in the morning, how it actually increases your mental acuity and energy and, uh, and, and I gave all the credit to caffeine for that, you know, and, and I, I gave the power to caffeine, you know, to caffeine for that for so many years for that energy mental focus. But now that I've gotten a complete outta my system and lived differently, uh, hydration actually has not the full effect of it, but definitely a significant enough effect where I don't have the cravings anymore. So it took a while to get there, but, but we're fully there. So anything else you wanna say before we check
Brigitte Spurgeon (28:56):
Out for our listeners? Definitely reference our podcast that we did earlier on, on cap, uh, coffee, uh, controversy. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, because we talk about this, I think it is important when we're talking about hydration to also understand how coffee or caffeine affects us. And once again, it's, it's not how you think. Um, but I, I love what one of our coaches, Pamela, she teaches her patients to always, uh, drink water. Like, don't let coffee or something else, caffeine, be the first thing you put in your body. Make sure that water is always the first thing that you put in your body. So I think that's great advice.
Dr. Lonnie Bagwell, DC (29:37):
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