Advice for Sippers

(Karen) #1

I’m a sipper when it comes to taking in liquids. I have BPC or Titanium Tea in the morning (sometimes one of each). I sip on this until noon or so then make a 24oz container of water with lemon juice. I usually drink that by 5 or 6 pm. I make another but do not drink it all before I go to sleep. I’m not thirsty and I pee plenty! All total, that is about 56 ounces per day unless I force more. Does this seem like enough hydration?

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #2

What color is your urine? If it is a pale, clear yellow, then you are plenty hydrated. If it is dark yellow or even orange, then you need to be drinking a fair quantity more liquid. I enjoy seltzer water, since it is just carbonated water, but if you want to help your sodium intake a tiny bit, you could drink club soda, which is carbonated water with a bit of salt. But other liquids are fine, too, though “hydrating” with alcohol is probably not the best of ideas, lol!

(Karen) #3

Yes urine is pale/light with barely any color. I really don’t like carbonated things. I add some pink salt and no salt (potassium) to my water. I do like the True Lemon flavored drink sticks sweetened with stevia that you add to water but I don’t want to overdo the stevia. Thanks for chiming in.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #4

As long as it stays that way, your hydration is fine.

(*Rusty* Instagram: @Rustyk61) #5

I drink 150 to 170 oz of water every day. keeps everything in check.

#6

And here I thought this thread was gonna be about Irish whiskey…

#7

Years ago when I started using himalayan salt water in my morning mug of water, I noticed I got more deeply hydrated and stopped have times of great thirst except after physical exertion or being in overheated conditions. I’ve found that taking in abundant salt (as Dr. Phinney has pointed out, health improves with much higher salt intake than the RDA) - and drinking water when thirsty (and topping up before bed if I’ve had wine) that my urine stays light throughout the day. This is maybe 5 big glasses of water a day, plus fatty coffee, smoothie and the water in any veg.

For decades we’ve been told to chug the water even at desk jobs and even with very light urine.

I used to wonder how traditional indigenous & aboriginal peoples managed to live, being that they gathered and lugged water from springs & rivers - and it wasn’t casual. They also valued salt as very precious and important.
Anthropologists have not reported on these peoples carrying personal water containers and chugging water incessantly.

As far as the AMA is concerned though, everyone’s supposed to be chugging 64 ounces of water and eating lots of bread/rice/pasta which absorbs a lot of that water.

(Karen) #8

Ha Ha! Good one. Well it could have been about Gin and Tonic because I like to sip on those too!

(Karen) #9

Good insight indeed. I’ll keep adding the salt to my water and watching the urine. Most of the time answers come down to listening to our bodies.

#10

After listening to the podcast on the Salt Fix I started adding Celtic sea salt to my coffee in the morning along with the coconut oil and butter (and sometimes cacao and cardamom), love it. I had the long running fear of salt from all the decades of propaganda so adding in more salt has been interesting. Especially breaking the scary feeling that I was doing myself in. Frankly this entire lifestyle scared the hell out of me at first.

Oddly enough, since adopting this way of eating, I sleep better and don’t drink near as much caffeine.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #11

Dr. Noakes was one of the first medical people to push for runners to hydrate themselves, but then as the trend got out of control he began to see the dangers and backed off. He now advises “Drink to thirst.”

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #12

My thought was wines. :laughing:

(Doug) #13

When I’m not sweating during the day, it’s been as low as having two cups of black coffee in the morning, and that’s it. It definitely depends on what food, if any, one has. Salt means you’re going to need more water to keep the electrolyte balance in your body in line. If one is fasting, may not need much water at all. Going from ketogenic eating to eating carbs really means much more water retention for me, i.e. gonna drink and store a lot of it.

#14

I’ve yet thought of adding sea salt to coffee - will have to try that sometime!

Have also discovered that adding 1/4-1/2 tsp of sea salt in addition to the non-sugar sweetener and/or vanilla extracct I use in my undenatured protein/fat smoothies a few times a week is super tasty -

(Karen) #15

At least the heading got some attention! Cheers!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #16

Be sure to drink to thirst! :grin:

#17

Gotta love that!