Los healthy habits include a good hydration. From there the importance of consuming water during the day to ensure good functioning of the body. When you are attentive to the amount of water should be drunk per day, the question arises: what is more effective, drinking sips or a liter at once? An expert explains what the hydration process is like in both cases.
The Argentine doctor and professor, specialist in longevity and integrative medicinedoctor Sebastian La Rosaexplains in a video on his social networks the differences between hydrating taking sips steadily and take 500 milliliters or 1 liter at a time.
“Many people would prefer to do this, they would prefer to drink the water they need all at once so they don’t have to think about it. And this happens because thirst has a very individual way of affecting us. That’s why there are people who take longer to perceive thirst and then consume large amounts of water together, and people who find it easier to feel thirsty and take sips,” he details.
La Rosa, who is a medical information discloser on his popular YouTube channel “Dr. La Rosa”, indicates that being thirsty means, at a theoretical level, that you are already dehydrated.
The secret of absorption: limited speed
While more water is consumed and the faster it is done, less than that total amount is used for hydration. “Many processes in your body, and this goes for everything, happen at the same time. limited speed“adds the expert.
In the case of water, this limited speed has to do with the volume of water that enters at a time and with many other factors, such as the pH or temperature. “How much more water enters together, more will be removed.”
To be more illustrative, he points out that: “If I take 1 liter of water at onceI’m going to eliminate much more of that water consumed than if I had taken it in 6 sips and distributed it over 2 hours, and this happens even if you are dehydrated.”
Science behind drinking “A Sorbitos”
Beyond being a recommendation from Dr. La Rosa, there is an explanation with scientific basis anchored in the kidney physiology and our body’s absorption efficiency.
For example, the kidney has a maximum rhythm to the one who can reabsorber agua to return it to the bloodstream.
For this reason, when you drink a liter at once, that volume quickly exceeds the absorption capacity of the intestine and the reabsorption capacity of the kidney.
- Overload detected: The body detects this volume of water as an overload.
- Renal response: the kidney acts quickly to get rid of it (a process known as diuresis).
When drinking large volumes, it acts as a diluent, so the blood osmolarity changes abruptly. The kidney has to do a extra effort to normalize electrolyte and fluid balance, a process that requires energy and can be exhausting in the long term.
According to the recommendations of La Rosa and the scientific evidence, sip water is a biological micro-management strategy which ensures that water is absorbed gradual and efficientoptimizing the kidney function and minimizing extra work.
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