Thursday, February 2, 2012

The Main Functions Of Water In The Body

You always hear that you need to drink plenty of water to keep your body healthy and balanced. That statement is absolutely 100% true. In fact, drinking enough water and keeping your body hydrated has tremendous positive effects.

First, let's take a look at how much the human body is made up of water. Depending on the body size, a human body can be anywhere from 55% to 78% made up of water. Your brain consists of 90% water. Your muscles consist of 75% water. Your bones consist of 22% water (yes bones), and your blood consists of 83% water.

Bottom line is every cell in your body needs water from head to toe, which is why it's so important to drink plenty of it. Let's take your brain for example, which is made up of 90% water. If your body isn't hydrated and your brain doesn't get enough water, your brain will not function well, you will not be as sharp or responsive, and you may even get a migraine or headache. If you feel a headache coming on or maybe fatigue, it may be as simple as you needing more water in your system.

Besides keeping your body hydrated, water has a lot of other positive functionality for your body as well. For instance, water helps transport nutrients and oxygen into your cells. Water helps moisturize the air in your lungs. Water is the main agent to flushing out toxins and waste by-products in your digestive system. Water also regulates your body temperature (which helps with exercise). Water actually increases your metabolism but more importantly water protects your vital organs and helps your organs absorb nutrients more efficiently. Water makes up a majority of your muscles, so it protects and moisturizes your joints and muscles as well.

As you can see, something as simple as water has a tremendous impact on making and keeping our body healthy and balanced. That's why it's important to put down the sodas or juices that don't help our body and switch to only drinking water. Plus, water doesn't have any calories and it quenches our thirst. It's important to note that the human body is perfectly designed to be balanced and healthy. It's us (humans) that screw up the balance by putting stuff in our bodies that whack it out of balance. Start by switching to only drinking water to get your body back to the way it is designed to work.

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