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Advice regarding dehydration?
kib1
(KM)
#21
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#22
A ketogenic diet is any diet low enough in carbohydrate that it lowers your blood sugar and your insulin to normal levels. The standard diet recommended by the American government is one of permanent hyperglycaemia and hyperinsulinaemia, both of which are conditions that damage the body.
Some of the scientifically-established effects of a high-carb/high-insulin diet are tooth decay, high blood pressure, Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome, impotence (also known as “erectile dysfunction”), cancer, Alzheimer’s disease (Type III diabetes), various other motor-neuron diseases, many (if not most) mental health problems, and so forth.
As for the question in your original post: what is your reason for not trusting your body to tell you when you need water? This is a process called “thirst.” Just as your body is not going to let you starve to death without making you extremely hungry in the process, it is also not going to let you die of dehydration without making you very thirsty first.
Given the propaganda put out by sports-drinks manufacturers, you’d think we were in danger of dying from dehydration at any moment. However, as Dr. Tim Noakes (the runner who started the whole craze for hydration) points out, it is sufficient to drink to thirst. In fact, just as he started sounding the alarm about over-hydration among marathon runners, people started ending up in the hospital and even dying from excessive hydration leading to electrolyte imbalances.
Shinita
#23
It apparently doesn’t work for some. I don’t get it as my thirst works well (actually, it’s a bit too severe) but people do get dehydration. They should be more careful. I never cared as I am what you descripted, my thirst notifies me.
Maybe no one DIES of dehydration without serious, impossible to ignore thirst but if one is dehydrated a lot, it’s still not healthy.
People even manage to undereat, it’s so odd to me when it happens for a long time especially when one is already underweight (probably a lot of mental stuff is involved but some people truly seem to lack hunger, it’s just how they are)… But thirst? Enduring thirst is even worse than the same for hunger, why can’t one’s thirst work properly…? And people mixing the two when they are nothing alike…? Humans are very interesting.
So there is a huge individual factor. Some people never need to think about thinking (or getting enough sodium when drinking excessive amounts due to thirst), others don’t have it that easy.
Forcefully overdrinking low electrolyte drinks can be fatal though so one should be even careful with that (well, just don’t force down water to begin with? unless the thirst is truly messed up and there is dehydration).
lfod14
#24
Usually by the time you have dehydration symptoms really jumping out at you, it’s really bad. We’re functionally dehydrated way before that.
Rehydrating correctly can take days if you were real bad. If it all started with the further drop in carbs, that’s probably what it is, but what are you trying to achieve? Are you trying to correct a medical problem with the higher ketones?