I've been preaching this for quite a while now. If I have to post it again, so be it:
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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Unless you are dehydrated drinking more water is of minimal benefit. Unless you're replacing other unhealthy drinks with water, but that's got little to do with the water.
Yeah, it's over hyped.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I’ve found that once I increased my salt intake (along with my water intake) my brain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, and pee went away.
Electrolytes, what's that?
(To the tune of mxpx's "responsibility, what's that?")
sounds like dehydration
How can you not be getting enough salt?? We don’t need that much and it’s in basically everything
🤷♂️
Maybe? Maybe not. It’s expensive to test for, and cheaper to treat the symptoms. And I can monitor my vitals myself.
~Finest healthcare in the world!~
Mango chili LMNT packet in 40oz of ice water is my go to fav.
Electrolytes, it’s what plants crave!
Intake water? Like from the toilet?
Brawndo. It's got what we crave!
Your "pee went away"?
Okay, slightly exaggerated. More like I stopped peeing as frequently.
Salt causes water retention.
Consider also reducing your sugar intake!
TFW experiencing all the symptoms of addiction to sugar: "I must not be drinking enough water 🤔"
I really struggle with this one. I love sugary treats. Chocolate, fizzy drinks, etc.
With fizzy drinks I found it very easy to shift towards flavored seltzers instead of it's the fizz specifically. And if it's sodas... Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular due to the mix of multiple sweeteners. Totally different from diet sodas which usually just use one or two, usually aspartame which also has a strong aftertaste.
If possible for chocolate, higher quality products often will hit that craving better than the cheap candy bar type stuff with 5x the amount of sugar.
Be somewhat wary of artificial sweeteners, most of them are relatively new and so have unwanted side effects ore unknown side effect. (I geuss it's like vaping : better than smoking but not great). Some known ones include : cancer and obesity because you body cranks your calorie retention to the max (it sees a full can of something that tastes very much like sugar go in and no calories come out so it goes "wow, i'm really bad at extracting and storing energy. Let's improve that ! And you get fucked next time you eat sugar) anyways, as with everything, be mindfull with consumption
It gets easier if you go 100% cold turkey for a few months; I stopped any kind of refined sugar in like 2016 and now more subtle sweetnesses stand out, and the occasion I eat things like ice cream with chocolate or a glazed jelly donut makes me physically ill.
I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice? Why is there so much??
I had this too. After a month without sugar, I lost the taste for it. I can do a few spoons of icecream or a tiny bit of cake, but that's it. I can eat a shit ton of sweet fruit though. I ate 4 mangoes in a day. (Don't do that.)
You're not my supervisor!
No u.
It wouldn't be surprising if a person who was drinking too little water was also getting too little sleep and too little exercise, so they could have multiple sources for the same symptoms.
Hey, you didn't have to make it personal...
I like peeing. Feels good man.
Can I see please 🥺👉👈
And just like that you have created an orgy pit. Stop sending all the horny people to the same place!
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I’m so tired of peeing. I drink the water I apparently need to survive. Then I have to go put the water somewhere else 5 minutes later. I drink water, I wash my hands, I leave, then I need to drink MORE water. Guess where that water ends up? Not in me! I give the water to my body and then like a child it tosses it out and demands more. All hours of the day and all hours of the night no matter what I am doing my life is interrupted by piss and this bullshit.
The average person in the US does consume much more water than the average person from most European countries.
That said, they also elect Donald Trump as president twice, so... shrugs