Just as I made plans to increase my water intake in order to help my metabolism and eventual weightloss, I came across this article that says medical experts are beginning to question the health benefits of drinking lots of water.
It has been widely circulated that drinking 6 to 8 glasses of water a day can boost concentration, give us a better complexion and more energy, keep headaches at bay, help us to detox and even curb our appetites.
However, now according to research, consuming this recommended 2 litres of water daily might be doing us more harm than good!
According to the Daily Mail, in the past few years people have started reporting that they have become addicted to drinking water. They have now been labelled as aquaholics and Professor Mark Whiteley, a consultant vascular surgeon is one of those experts expressing concerns about our water consumption.
Also an expert in hyperhidrosis which is excessive sweating, he says drinking more water than you should over an extended period of time resets the brain’s chemistry to expect excessive amounts of water.
This he clarifed is linked to many of the extreme sweating problems his patients suffer from because if you drink more water than you need to, sweating is one of the ways the body will try to rid itself of the excess.
Professor Whitely says he has some patients with excessive sweating so severe that are now considering surgery to remove their sweat glands.
Drinking large amounts of water, particularly at the end of the day, can also disrupt sleep too and he recommends no fluids for two or, even better, three hours before bedtime.
Another scary reason is that one can die of water poisoning. In 2008, Jacqueline Henson, a 40 year old mother from Huddersfield, was on a stringent weight-loss programme and she died of water intoxication after drinking 4 litres of water in the space of a couple of hours.
He calls this water overdose, where people drink too much water too quickly rather than gradually in cupfuls. This he said can play havoc with the delicate balance of salts in the body.
In conclusion, the body needs around 1.6/2 litres of fluid a day but it doesn't have to be water and can include tea,coffee, milk, fruit juices and even the water contained in foods such as fruits and vegetables.
Meanwhile, another Professor of Kidney Medicine and spokesperson for Kidney Research UK, David Wheeler, says you don’t have to drink water to keep the body hydrated functioning as fluid is fluid as far as the body is concerned, with the exception of alcohol, which has a diuretic effect and can dehydrate us.
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