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Hydration / dehydration: impact on health and productivity

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But wait, you may be saying. 2-3%, when 15% is death, is a lot of water, right? Well... not really. For a person of normal weight (let's say 170 lbs) and normal health, 2% dehydration is less than a litre of water (actually, about 3 8-oz cups). That's not much at all. Frankly, if you are not in the habit of drinking water, that is quite possibly somewhere around your current level of dehydration! And that 2-3% has a big effect, as you read above. Therefore, many of us are operating at a "normal" level that is well below what we are capable of... and it is so easy to fix.

For instance: did you know that more than half of normal (not chronic, bone-on-bone) back-aches can be "cured" by drinking a couple of glasses of water just before you go to bed? The discs in your back will soak up that water overnight, and you will be good to go again the next morning. This has to happen at night while you are laying down, though. The discs cannot absorb that water during the day while busy being used/compressed... but there you go. Two glasses of water and a trip to the bathroom, and a great many back-aches will go away. Try it! A lot of you will find it works. It definitely works for me, and I should know: I've delivered bottled water for 15 years so experience significant (often painful) disc compression, and if I forget to drink that water at night, my back is still sore in the morning. Don't forget, and usually not sore. Those discs are, after all, not much more than simply baggies filled with water, but that water can squeeze out, and if there is not enough water in your body to soak them full again overnight they stay squeezed out and you hurt. And that is just one example of the effects of hydration levels on your body... there are literally hundreds of others that are even more interesting and important.

The fact of the matter is that water, however you get it into your body, is absolutely essential for life at all, and further that getting enough water at the right time will make a huge difference in quality of life. I would be remiss if I didn't here say that in my opinion if you are going to be drinking water for health it only makes sense to be drinking the best water you can get, which I would suggest is the water we deliver at H2Only... but that's all I am going to say about that, because that wasn't really the purpose of this white paper ;-)

I could go on for page after page on the importance of hydration: it's something I am, after all, professionally interested in. I am also personally passionate about it. It's such a simple thing that can make such a big difference for so little. I'm going to stop now, tho... most folks don't like long sermons! But if you want to read more about this from a more technical perspective, I have a list of web addresses below (most of which themselves have further links) that will get you started on your research project... enjoy, and get back to me if you find something really interesting I should put in the next update of this paper!

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