How to Support Optimal Hydration 💦

There used to be a lot of discussion about the 8 x 8, (eight glasses of eight ounces of water per day), and how that was an ideal standard, but there are a lot of nuances and things we need to look at when it comes to how much water one should intake on a daily basis to help support their optimal levels.

Your age, gender, height, body mass, medications or supplements that you’re taking, even kidney function can all be influential in that hydration process, but there are also key nutrients that require optimal hydration for max absorption and assimilation of nutrients.

For example, our hydration levels influence the amount of electrolytes that we’re actually able to intake and electrolytes help us balance our fluid levels. So if you’re dehydrated, sometimes it’s a snowball effect where you’re not actually absorbing and assimilating core electrolytes, like potassium and sodium, that require optimal hydration. There are a lot of folks starting to add the IV electrolyte kind of mixes to their water and those are helpful, but if you’re dehydrated already, those electrolytes actually will "bounce" and they won’t be absorbed and utilized by your body optimally.

How to Support Optimal Hydration Levels:

Kicking your hydration off right in the A.M. is a powerful thing to add to your daily routine. Starting off with a 4-6 ounce "shot" of water with some Himalayan sea salt and a little dash of baking soda in the morning. That kind of sets the tone of your hydration. Then drinking fluids throughout the day that are enhanced with trace minerals. Minerals are great for supporting optimized hydration, but also you're going to see a better transport of a minerals like calcium that requires optimal hydration levels. You can actually increase your magnesium absorption and assimilation, your absorption and transport mechanism of calcium, as well as the electrolytes, potassium and sodium, if you are hydrating well.

Symptoms of Dehydration:

- Not urinating. This is really important too, if you are dehydrated, then you are not urinating every two or three hours. If not, that’s definitely a sign you're not moving fluids well.

- Urine isn't clear or smells. The other thing to notice, if you cannot “read” through your urine, meaning if it’s not a clear or gently yellow or light yellow. If it’s darker yellow or even kind of orange-y color, that’s a sign that you're in a dehydrated state.

- Constipation. Also, you might be dehydrated if you are constipated. Constipation is a sign of dehydration, because the bowels are not getting the right amount of liquid, and they get compacted.

- Low Magnesium levels. If you're not absorbing optimal levels of magnesium, then this will add to the constipation issue. Magnesium helps move fluid throughout the body and balances the fluid levels as it flushes fluid into the bowels, assisting regular bowel movements.

- Tachycardia/Low Electrolytes. Same thing with electrolyte imbalances. If you have tachycardia or racing heart or elevated heart rate, test your electrolyte levels. It's important to look at assorted lab values that might indicate you’re dehydrated.

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