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What does it mean to be thirsty?
- JSR_FDED 1y agoI have the opposite problem, after one glass of water I feel full and drinking any more makes me nauseous. It’s a struggle to get sufficient hydration during the day.
- WalterGR 1y agoHow many ounces consumed over how many minutes?
- noman-land 1y agoDon't drink the whole glass at once?
- jiggawatts 1y agoTry adding a rehydrating powder mix, the same stuff they use for treating diarrhoea. It’s just salts, glucose, and citric acid. It is hugely more hydrating than plain water, with a much faster onset of feeling relief from intense thirst. Sports drinks are basically the same thing, but with excess sugars for “energy” (and weight gain).
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- pazimzadeh 1y agotry carbonated water +/- lemon juice
- ykonstant 1y agoA good choice if you have a carbonating machine; just take care of your teeth afterwards, especially if you add lemon juice.
- move-on-by 1y agoWhat are your thoughts on cows milk? There are a number of studies suggesting it’s better at hydration than plain water regardless of skim vs. whole.
- voakbasda 1y agoI own a dairy cow and milk twice a day. I drink a lot of milk. For me, it’s definitely not as good for hydration. And unless you skim it thoroughly (yuck!), it contains an obscene number of calories. It’s not a great substitute for water, but it tastes far better.
- moi2388 1y agoFirst off, it doesn’t have to be plain water. Secondly, the two liters a day was two liters of moisture, not drinking two liters a day; food is included in this amount
- Steve44 1y ago> food is included in this amount When my wife was ill a few years ago the doctor suggested Angel Delight[1] to help maintain fluids. Until then it hadn't occurred to me you're still effectively drinking half a pint of milk when you eat a bowl. [1] It's an instant dessert / mousse that you mix up with milk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Delight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Delight
- avalys 1y agoI'm so interested in this topic, for a weird reason. Since I was a kid, I've thought I was "prone to migraines", and ascribed various triggers to them - sun exposure, heat, physical exertion, mental exertion, etc. I'd get a migraine sometimes after a long hike on a weekend - and also a long business meeting entirely indoors in an air-conditioned space. Only when I was around 35, did I figure something out. All these situations lead to me getting dehydrated without any obvious accompanying feeling of thirst. Hiking all day will do it - walking around an outdoor shopping mall on a hot afternoon - or sitting in an all-day business meeting focused on the work at hand and forgetting to drink. And all these situations lead to a migraine - my only "migraine" trigger is simple dehydration, nothing more complicated. The weird thing is, it took me a long time (decades) to put this together, because I just figured that I couldn't be dehydrated if I wasn't thirsty, and I had no association between "feeling thirsty" and getting a migraine. I get what I consider normally thirsty in other circumstances, but somehow there's a failure mode where my body doesn't warn me. So now I just remember to chug lots of water (and electrolytes) if I'm exerting myself even if I don't really feel thirsty, and I can systematically avoid triggering migraines. Now that I understand it the association is quite clear and obvious in retrospect.
- zeta0134 1y agoYou might as well be my dream self writing a journal, because this describes my experience 1:1. It's kindof wild how long it took me to realize that I wasn't overheating at night due to the weather or the A/C being broken, but simply due to needing more water. That's one of my strongest signs as it turns out. I don't know what "thirst" feels like at all! It's weird because I do feel hunger. If I forget to actually eat, my stomach kicks my brain and refuses to let me concentrate until I fix it. Hydration has no equivalent, and in retrospect, it's no wonder I was suffering headaches and nausea all through college on my diet of mostly soda. After I switched to water as my primary beverage things improved dramatically, but it's not perfect. I still have to watch the signs and pay attention, or I'll dehydrate myself by simply forgetting to drink.
- tasuki 1y ago> I don't know what "thirst" feels like at all! It's weird because I do feel hunger. (I'm not an expert so take with a grain of salt) This is it! Your hunger! It's actually thirst! When you're "hungry", try drinking a glass of water first. (Some people use this trick to lose weight, others, to stay hydrated...)
- pazimzadeh 1y agoTangentially related, I'm curious to know why it is that proteins are so much more filling than other macronutrients (within minutes)
- lithocarpus 1y agoOne theory is that the most important nutrient that we really need a certain amount of every day is protein, and thus the body wants us to keep eating until it thinks we've got enough protein. (And for the vegans, I'm not saying meat - even most green plants and mushrooms are about 1/3 protein by dry weight). In nature almost every food has some amount of protein. If you get meat, you don't need to eat that much for your body to have all the protein it needs. If you are eating cake, it will take an awful lot of cake to have an adequate amount of protein. In evolutionary past, if one had access to fresh fruit it might make sense to eat a lot of it right away since it won't keep, and the sugar in the fruit is easy for the body to store as fat and use later. In nature it's very rare to find a diet with very high fat and low protein but suppose you live by a macadamia tree, you may need to eat a lot of calories worth of macadamias to get enough protein. I have a feeling though that excess fat can go right through you in some cases like that - because there have been times where I was binging on peanut butter, like easily 16-24oz in a day often, like 2-3000 calories extra on top of my normal diet, and I didn't gain weight, I think a lot of it went through me undigested. These are just hypotheses I'm not claiming they are necessarily the reason, and definitely are not the only mechanism involved as it's extremely complex. But they make sense as a simple place to start.
- scythe 1y ago>I have a feeling though that excess fat can go right through you in some cases like that - because there have been times where I was binging on peanut butter, like easily 16-24oz in a day often, like 2-3000 calories extra on top of my normal diet, and I didn't gain weight, I think a lot of it went through me undigested. Nuts, specifically, do this: https://www.nature.com/articles/0803735 https://www.nature.com/articles/0803735 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/energy-extraction-from-nuts-walnuts-almonds-pistachios/44A3557589A75609075445FBC317BEBD https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n... Peanut butter is usually pretty bioavailable, though. Unless it was particularly coarse (like the kind you get freshly made at an upscale grocer)?
- rr808 1y agoSo dumb to see office workers sipping all day on their gallon water bottles, while outside the workers in the sun on the construction site taking the occasional sip.
- dataflow 1y ago> So dumb to see office workers sipping all day on their gallon water bottles, while outside the workers in the sun on the construction site taking the occasional sip. Dumb? People can't just drink their darn water as much as they please without getting judged now? What's your point?
- dgan 1y agonot the OP but: it's fairly obvious that those office workers force themselves, so you can't say "as much as they please", otherwise they d stop 3 liters earlier. So yes, you will be judged. It looks pretty dumb.
- 613style 1y agoWhy are you monitoring your colleagues’ water intake?
- dgan 1y agobecause he s in front of me and i have eyes ?
- quesera 1y agoPerhaps he has a renal function issue. Perhaps he has a familial history of same and is acclimated to drinking more water than you are comfortable with. Perhaps he just enjoys drinking water. I do. As cold as possible. Kaltes Klares Vasser. Regardless, ain't none o' yr dang bidness.
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- dgan 1y agoi can't stop eating the salt cristals before eating the lunch
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- The_Blade 1y ago∑ Quanta Thirst
- defyonce 1y agoI am piloting a super sophisticated mech that is a literal home (primordial soup) for other tiny specs that cooperate together. And more and more I ask this question. Why? There is only recursive answer, to copy itself, so the copy could continue piloting. It is poetic and really weird.
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- layer8 1y agoThey should make an anime series about that.
- trenchpilgrim 1y agoThey could call it "Diffusion Dave", or maybe "Jobs for Cells"
- card_zero 1y agoI am "fastened to a dying animal", at least you're proud of your fancy mech.
- cobbzilla 1y agoI recently learned that the inverse of thirst is called hyponatremic craving. This is when you have too much water and your body craves salt. It ought to have a better word! “I’m feeling salty” doesn’t work!
- Jarmsy 1y agoThat was one part of the article I found questionable- "If the body needs salt, those chips will cause a surge of pleasurable dopamine to flood the brain. If the body doesn’t need salt, that dopamine drip disappears" Surely this second part is false? Most of us have got used to high levels of salt in modern diets, and prefer the taste of salty things even when we've had way more sodium than we need.
- cwmoore 1y agoBreaking and hauling concrete patios in the Florida sunshine, I learned to take a couple of salt tablets with my gallon or two of water per shift to prevent incapacitating symptoms of thirst. Gatorade was both not enough electrolytes and the sugar spike too quickly dissipated. On the flipside, distilled water strips excess ions.
- mayama 1y agoSame here. On recent Indian trips, I got hit with mild nausea after sweating in summer weather. I couldn't believe I wasn't able to go around like I used to few years ago. Had to bring along mildly salted water and take couple of sips now and then.
- porridgeraisin 1y agoThis article reminded me to go drink water, I had forgotten.
- prometheus76 1y ago"However, animals like us do not experience salt desire as a powerful, controlling drive as we do with oxygen, food and water." (from the article). I disagree with that, especially when I was young. I would crave salt. I would lick my hand and sprinkle salt on it, then lick the salt off. I would break chunks off the salt lick block we had for our horses. I would lick the homemade play-doh my mom would make because it tasted like salt. There's no substantiation for the claim in the article that we lack a salt craving. Apparently, the author hasn't, but I know a lot of people that do.