Drinking Water - an Inexpensive Investment for Your Health

Still remember that we need to drink ENOUGH water, about 8 glass a day or 2 – 2.5 liters in order to stay healthy? A smoker perhaps needs to drink a little bit more than that suggestion. This article will tell you more about that.

There are 2 organs in our body that consist of higher than 80% liquid substance, they are blood and brain. Both play paramount role to keep our body properly functioning.

Body discharges liquid by various means like urination, sweating, breathing, etc. Therefore body continuously needs to replace its liquid. But what happens if you happen to intake less water than your body requires?

The answer is, taking it from what the organs have. First organ to be levied is blood which is 95% built on liquid. This results in blood thickening and this makes it harder to flow. Kidney has to work extra to filter the thickened blood, imagine the delicate kidney filters being forced to filter the thickened blood. In long run it causes damage on the kidney filter that symptoms with reddish urine color. Permanent damage means routine dialysis is required.

Now we look at how thickened blood punishes the brain. Brain requires the most food and oxygen which are feed by blood that passes it. Prolonged constrained and slower blood flow in the brain may cause shorter life of brain cells because the oxygen and food it needs do not reach timely.

Now you have learned more how the ‘inexpensive investment’ of drinking water can help preventing some of the most terrible health disorders.