whygetfat on Nostr: Max Gulhane MD: "Should I add minerals to my water? […]" Carrie Bennett: "I think ...
Max Gulhane MD: "Should I add minerals to my water? […]"
Carrie Bennett: "I think step one you got to filter out the garbage. Right? So that's the most important thing that we focus on is getting rid of all the toxins that are in the water. That being said, I find that when appropriate remineralization happens in the water it is better absorbed, because minerals give the water charge and charge enhances its absorption.
"I've had clients in the past who have said, 'Well Carrie, I drink three liters of water a day and I'm just peeing every 20 minutes.' Turns out that the water that they were drinking was reverse osmosis water. That would mean it eliminated all the toxins, but also eliminated all the minerals from the water. These are people who are drinking water but they're truly not absorbing it well. Because the water, when it doesn't get absorbed well, the body has no choice but to basically flush it out via the kidneys. So you're going to pee a lot.
"I've had clients who have played around with Quinton minerals, which is an isotonic version of seawater essentially, meaning it's really rich in minerals. When when you overdo minerals in your water, when you over consume too many minerals in your water, you're going to get diarrhea. Right? Your colon has the ability to say, 'Nope. We don't need to absorb any more minerals. We're going to flush those out of the system.'
"So I find that the body has a built-in mechanism to know if you're absorbing water well. You don't want the diarrhea, so you don't want that many minerals that you get the diarrhea. You don't want to be peeing every 20 to 30 minutes. And you want your urine in general to be of a lighter, like a very lightish yellow, not excessively clear, all the time. Right? But a light, light yellow.
"If that's what's happening to you, like you're peeing every couple of hours or so, your urine's light yellow, you're drinking the good quality water with a little bit of minerals added to it, I say that's good enough. You're generally hydrated in my opinion at that point.
"Nuance there for people who have things like POTS who may need more minerals and more water for things like blood volume. But obviously there's a lot of case-by-case individuality that goes into this." —Carrie Bennett with maxgulhanemd (npub19yj…unad) @ 39:51–46:52 https://youtu.be/YC9-p5KAQDY&t=2391
Carrie Bennett: "I think step one you got to filter out the garbage. Right? So that's the most important thing that we focus on is getting rid of all the toxins that are in the water. That being said, I find that when appropriate remineralization happens in the water it is better absorbed, because minerals give the water charge and charge enhances its absorption.
"I've had clients in the past who have said, 'Well Carrie, I drink three liters of water a day and I'm just peeing every 20 minutes.' Turns out that the water that they were drinking was reverse osmosis water. That would mean it eliminated all the toxins, but also eliminated all the minerals from the water. These are people who are drinking water but they're truly not absorbing it well. Because the water, when it doesn't get absorbed well, the body has no choice but to basically flush it out via the kidneys. So you're going to pee a lot.
"I've had clients who have played around with Quinton minerals, which is an isotonic version of seawater essentially, meaning it's really rich in minerals. When when you overdo minerals in your water, when you over consume too many minerals in your water, you're going to get diarrhea. Right? Your colon has the ability to say, 'Nope. We don't need to absorb any more minerals. We're going to flush those out of the system.'
"So I find that the body has a built-in mechanism to know if you're absorbing water well. You don't want the diarrhea, so you don't want that many minerals that you get the diarrhea. You don't want to be peeing every 20 to 30 minutes. And you want your urine in general to be of a lighter, like a very lightish yellow, not excessively clear, all the time. Right? But a light, light yellow.
"If that's what's happening to you, like you're peeing every couple of hours or so, your urine's light yellow, you're drinking the good quality water with a little bit of minerals added to it, I say that's good enough. You're generally hydrated in my opinion at that point.
"Nuance there for people who have things like POTS who may need more minerals and more water for things like blood volume. But obviously there's a lot of case-by-case individuality that goes into this." —Carrie Bennett with maxgulhanemd (npub19yj…unad) @ 39:51–46:52 https://youtu.be/YC9-p5KAQDY&t=2391