Dawn Jackson Blatner: Tips for better hyrdation

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, I mean, here's, here's the scoop.

Always a dietician talking about hydration, la dee da dee da dee, but here's what happened to me.

This is why I wanted to-

Okay

...

I was looking at this new...

It's basically, like, an expert consensus paper that came out right this week and was printed in a, you know, scientific journal, and this is a stat that really shocked me.

I mean, I kinda knew that everyone's bad at hydration, but, like, listen to this.

At least 70% of Americans are not drinking the right amount of water.

Like, [laughs] what? That's everybody.

You know, I mean, I mean, that's a lot of us aren't.

And so I was like, "Wow, that's a big stat." And then I was like, "Well, you know, I know that water is important," but then you go on to read in this consensus paper all together the consequences when you're under-hydrated.

And so then I start reading, "Dehydration can hurt your focus, your attention, your decision-making, your coordination." I'm like, "Oh, my gosh," like, that's, uh...

Okay.

And then you continue to read on in this paper that if you're under-hydrated, you're gonna be tired.

You're gonna be irritable.

You could have more confusion.

You can have negative moods, so maybe, you know, when you think about why are you so crabby, [laughs] you know, maybe it's under-hydration.

Listen to this.

Then I go on to read even more of the consequences are things that are way more serious, like insulin resistance, higher blood sugar levels, uh, obesity, type 2 diabetes risk.

These things are associated, not cause and effect, but associated with, uh, this under-hydration that we all are having.

And then this is what really cinched me.

I was like, "I have to talk about this on the radio," that emerging research is even showing that this under-hydration could lead to faster biological aging and then greater risk of all sorts of chronic diseases, like heart disease and dementia.

So again, I think seeing all this in one place made me think, "Oh, my gosh, we really need to talk about our water, our hydration." It's more important than we think.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, I mean, here's, here's the scoop.

Always a dietician talking about hydration, la dee da dee da dee, but here's what happened to me.

This is why I wanted to-

Okay

...

I was looking at this new...

It's basically, like, an expert consensus paper that came out right this week and was printed in a, you know, scientific journal, and this is a stat that really shocked me.

I mean, I kinda knew that everyone's bad at hydration, but, like, listen to this.

At least 70% of Americans are not drinking the right amount of water.

Like, [laughs] what? That's everybody.

You know, I mean, I mean, that's a lot of us aren't.

And so I was like, "Wow, that's a big stat." And then I was like, "Well, you know, I know that water is important," but then you go on to read in this consensus paper all together the consequences when you're under-hydrated.

And so then I start reading, "Dehydration can hurt your focus, your attention, your decision-making, your coordination." I'm like, "Oh, my gosh," like, that's, uh...

Okay.

And then you continue to read on in this paper that if you're under-hydrated, you're gonna be tired.

You're gonna be irritable.

You could have more confusion.

You can have negative moods, so maybe, you know, when you think about why are you so crabby, [laughs] you know, maybe it's under-hydration.

Listen to this.

Then I go on to read even more of the consequences are things that are way more serious, like insulin resistance, higher blood sugar levels, uh, obesity, type 2 diabetes risk.

These things are associated, not cause and effect, but associated with, uh, this under-hydration that we all are having.

And then this is what really cinched me.

I was like, "I have to talk about this on the radio," that emerging research is even showing that this under-hydration could lead to faster biological aging and then greater risk of all sorts of chronic diseases, like heart disease and dementia.

So again, I think seeing all this in one place made me think, "Oh, my gosh, we really need to talk about our water, our hydration." It's more important than we think.