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I learned this week that I was waking up multiple times in the middle of the night with a scratchy throat and an increasingly worsening headache due to dehydration.
I almost never feel thirsty anymore but given my level of running and lifting I should be drinking about 100 ounces of water a day and I was coming nowhere near that. As a corollary, I did a long run on Saturday and made sure to drink water before and actively during and it was the first time I finished one without a headache.
Who knew? Not me!
The individual human body + brain unit is usually very good at telling you how much to drink without much difficulty, but some stuff can throw this out of balance. Excess exercise absolutely can (this is what sports drinks were for!). Getting older can too, and for the elderly it starts to get to be a real problem.
An ego flattering example: getting tougher, makes it easier to ignore signals to drink (and then...problems).
Monitoring the color of your urine is a good way to outsource for most people.
Makes sense.
I've spent a lot of time camping in the desert (re: festivals) and the common recommendation was to drink water until you piss clear. That's a good heuristic but my pee hadn't been particularly dark.
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