The real truth about water
Speech I delivered at Harrovians Speakers’ Club April 2007. I would love any comments.
Mr President, fellow toastmasters and most welcome guests.
“Water is a poison” - When you fall into water, you could drown!
The subject of my talk is “The real truth about water.”
I am going to break this talk into 3 areas:
1. Set the scene
2. How does water affect you
3. Some 'solutions'
By the end of this I talk I you will understand the importance of water to your ‘operation’ and that you will make changes to your life for the better.
Intro
There are some things I'm about to tell you about water that will not only blow your mind, but will also have an almost immediate impact on your energy.
First - most of the advice you get about drinking water is dangerously wrong.
No one really knows for sure exactly how much water you should drink, and the blanket advice we get is pure hogwash.
For example ...
"Drink 8 glasses a day."
Now, that may look like sound advice, but further analysis shows it's an overly simplified "wives tail."
To be more blunt: "8 glasses a day" is actually a well established urban legend.
As recently revealed by the American Journal of Physiology, there is absolutely no scientific evidence to support the popular 8-glasses-a-day theory.
Now, none of these scientists at AJP are saying we don't need water (that would be silly). It's just that these overly simplified platitudes are not helping anyone's health.
What's needed is real scientific information and not half-truths.
What we do know is that "8 glasses a day" by itself is not good advice.
First, you need to drink water regularly throughout the day. Drinking 8 glasses in the morning and thinking you're "golden" for the day is actually dangerous.
You should, in fact, hydrate every single hour.
Many people who simply take up the habit of drinking a glass (or even half a glass - more about that in a minute) every hour notice their energy levels skyrocket.
Why?
Because most of us are chronically dehydrated.
If you don't think you are, try what I'm advising here for 48 hours and see what happens.
Again, this is a statistically valid "safe bet."
Another safe bet: your tired all the time and you can't figure out why.
Dehydration making you tired?
You bet.
Dehydration has been shown quite clearly to be linked to all of these. ("Merck Manual of Health")
· Dizziness
· Chronic fatigue
· Impotence
· Hair loss
· Headaches
· Low back pain
· Constipation
· And more ...
OK, so you want to fix this ...
What next?
Before you start gulping down, you need to know that "how much" depends on a lot of factors.
It depends on your body size, how much you exercise, the climate in which you live, and more ...
Obviously if you live in a hot climate where you're sweating all the time (a lot of the sweat is invisible - you don't have to be dripping to be rapidly losing water all day long), you need more - a lot more.
If you exercise even mildly - same thing.
But there's something important here.
You may think drinking more water by itself is enough, but if you drink too much you can actually "overdose" on water.
It sounds crazy, but there was even a widely publicized case in the US where people had to "hold their wee for Nintendo Wii" in a radio contest. The contestants were ordered to drink a high volume of water and hold their "wee" for as long as they could.
One of the contestants died as a result.
True story!
Too much water can harm you by either "water intoxication" (as the above Wii casulty, may she rest in peace) or by "electrolyte" imbalance.
Ah, electrolytes ...
Listen to this:
See, the more water you drink, the more you need to replace your “electrolytes”.
But before you go thinking you're going to need to purchase some expensive fancy "electrolyte replacement" sports drinks, here's the real deal:
All you have to do is add a tiny pinch of sea salt to every gallon of filtered drinking water you drink and - voila! You have all the electrolytes you need.
Of course, the sports drink peddlers won't tell you that. They'd have to sell you a whole lot of sea salt to make the same profit off your back!
Not bad, huh?
If you were simply to apply what we have shown you so far my "safe bet" is that you'd see a pretty significant bump in your energy.
(There's a whole lot more where that came from that - when combined in the right effortless away - will give you the energy for even the most demanding lifestyle and "juice" to spare for your wild nights. Read on ...)
But will you actually do it? It's a damn good question.
The thing about this kind of information is that hearing it is one thing. Applying it to your life is a whole different animal.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, this talk was about how drinking water can dramatically increase your energy levels. Too much water can be bad for you.
I have been trying this for the past 2 weeks, and I really do notice a difference in my energy and concentration levels. I hope that feel inspired and motivated to take something into your own life.
Mr President, fellow toastmasters and most welcome guests.
Thank you.
Mandip Singh Sohal
Harrovians Speaker’s Club
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