The benefits of drinking water are touted everywhere. Here’s another explanation about these benefits.
Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body:
- 2 glasses of water after waking up – helps activate internal organs
- 1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal – helps digestion
- 1 glass of water before taking a bath- helps lower blood pressure
- 1 glass of water before going to bed- avoids stroke or heart attack
Doctors suggest water at bedtime will help prevent nighttime leg cramps. Your leg muscles seek hydration when they cramp and wake you up with a Charlie Horse.
WATER:
- Composes 75% of the brain
- Helps carry oxygen and nutrients to cells
- Regulates body temperature
- Moistens oxygen for breathing
- Helps convert food into energy
- Makes up 83% of blood
- Removes waste
- Protects and cushions vital organs
- Helps the body absorb nutrients
- Accounts for 22% of bones
- Makes up 75% of muscles
- Cushions joints
Frequent night-time urination
Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When you lie down and the lower body (legs, etc.) seeks level with the kidneys it is then that the kidneys remove the water because it is easier.
