0855 – Myth 1: You Need To Drink at Least Eight Glasses of Water a Day
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2023.05.05 – 0855 – Myth 1: You Need To Drink at Least Eight Glasses of Water a Day
H2O No-Nos – Busting 5 Myths About Water and Hydration[1]
Myth 1: You need to drink at least eight glasses of water a day
Nope: After all, how big are the glasses, how big are you? Have you done any exercise or need more water, or eaten a ton of watermelon and need less? How hot are you? Like the porridge in Goldilocks that had to be not too hot and not too cold, we each need enough to avoid dehydration and not too much to cause hyponatremia.
Water is hugely important and drinking it is cheap, easy and helps the voice systemically and topically, but like “walk 10,000 steps a day”, the basic eight-glasses claim has seemingly no basis in fact [2]. As a voice pro, you need to be intentional about your water intake especially if you have less water from other sources, or you are using up more of it, but the rigid ‘rule’ of eight-glasses seeing you right, is a myth.
[1] Adapted from https://www.npr.org/2022/09/21/1124371309/busting-common-hydration-water-myths
[2] https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpregu.00365.2002
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