How to Maximize Your Health by Drinking Water

Our body needs adequate amount of water to undergo biochemical processes. Water is also required for cleansing our blood, replenishing water loss due to exercise, working, or dehydration (particularly if you're walking under a hot sun),  and promoting better bowel movement. Both water and fiber are crucial for a healthy feces. Remember, less water intake causes kidney stones. As water causes you feel less hungry, and thus who're putting on weight may also think of drinking water.

After getting up from the bed in the morning, you should replenish your body with 500ml warm sea salt water (alternatively, you may also drink bamboo salt water) or warm alkaline water before washing up. This is essential for cleansing or flushing extra toxins and waste from your body and also for replenishing water loss during your sleep. Remember to drink water one hour before your lunch to promote better digestion. Replenish your body with water one hour after your lunch to help better nutrient absorption and also to accelerate blood circulation. Drink 200ml of water one hour before your sleep at night to help dilute the concentration of your blood. Make sure that you've replenished your body with 2100 - 2800 liter water in a day. The ideal way is to drink a little water every 15 minutes. Alternatively, you may also drink 2 glasses of water every 3 hours.

We've been told to drink 8-ounce glasses of water a day, but this guideline seems not to be suitable for all range of ages. Sedentary people, whose basic calory is less than 1500 - 2000 kcal a day generally don't need so much water. I recommend elderly people to replenish 150 - 200 ml lukewarm water one hour before sleep at night, and wake up once in the middle of night to pass urine, and later replenishing with some water to reduce the occurrence of cerebrovascular related diseases. Similarly, people with high blood pressure, weakened heart and kidneys, coronary heart disease, kidney disease, liver hardening disease, high blood sugar or diabetics, are not encouraged to take large amount of water. Excess water, by contrast, will cause extra workload to your heart and kidneys. The basic rule is 1000kcal for 1 liter water. The more you exercise or eat, the more you'll need to drink water.

As exercise causes water loss, you need to replenish your body with sufficient amount of water. You're recommended to drink 400 - 600 ml water two hours before exercising. You also can drink 100 - 200ml water 15 - 20 minutes before exercising. Remember, don't drink sugar-added water 20 - 60 minutes before exercising to avoid low blood sugar during exercising. The water you need during exercising will depend upon how much you've been sweating. The total water intake during exercising shouldn't be more than 800ml to prevent workload that might be added to your stomach, heart, intestinal tract and blood circulation. The practical way is to replenish your body 150 - 300ml every 15 - 20 minutes during exercising or 100 - 200ml after walking or jogging for 2- 3km. If you're doing outdoor physical activities under high temperature/hot sun, then you should replenish your body with 300 - 400ml for every hour you spent. If your outdoor activities are more than 1 hour, then you should replenish your body with sugar-added or electrolite water instead of plain water. And make sure that you don't take cold drinks within this period.

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