How Important Is Water Really?

[brandongilbert]

This guy is saying its everything..

YouTube - Daniel Vitalis Explains What Water Really Is

What are your thoughts?

[ginkgo]

No that is stupid. It is like urine therapy. Lots of people swear by it. Just drink your own urine daily. Too little water and you die of dehydration, but too much of it at one time can kill you.

But you can get it from many things like fruit. When it is hot and you are thirsty, one of the best things is eating cold watermelon. The only purpose of water is transport. There is a group of people. How many cars do we need to move them.

Just enough where they will fit in. No more or no less. A great way of getting enough water is from drinking green tea or white tea. One guy's elixer of life is taking meat and adding water and letting it rot for a few weeks and drinking it.

[Jarreddo]

The answer is: It's important, but not as important as the Internet tells you.

Drink a glass an hour or something and you'll be fine. Ignore the crazy people who say you should be drinking half a gallon every twenty minutes and then pissing clear every five minutes. It's no fun.

[alexplatups]

Water is important enough, here is something I wrote about it on my site:

Water and Weight Loss, Creating Permanent Fat Loss, Creating Ideal weight

you do not have to go far, considering that our bodies are 60-70% water,
this obviously is an important fluid for your organism!

[brandongilbert]

Based on the responses it seems clear that neither of the first two people watched or listened to the video.

Both of your responses have nothing to do with anything that was said in the video.

I appreciate your responses nonetheless and agree with you totally.

Urine therapy is a weird one for sure.

Drink gallons a day is totally absurd. If you have to drink that much it probably means your water sucks.

However i would recommend watching the video.

[ballhit2]

Try not drinking it for 30 days to see how important it is.

Note: don't actually do that

[JSB]

I agreed with everything in the presentation up until he said that flouride sedates populations. I give it 3 stars out of 5.

[funchy]

Water is important... but this guy's theory is all wet.

My first issue is with his analogy of fish in a tank: how important the water quality, ph, etc. What he doesn't say (doesn't realize?) is that fish CANNOT control the pH or content in their water. There are also not proteins added to the aquarium by the fish to help control pH and ion balance. However this is NOT true in your body. Your blood has buffers in it to help keep ph constant. The simple act of respiration affects your blood pH. Your kidneys are always monitoring blood ph and ion balance and adjusting accordingly. We wouldn't have surived evolution in a world where food or drink may have high or low pH. I could be wrong but I get the idea maybe he doesn't understand exactly what pH is measuring. Does he understand WHY pH changes in the body matter?

He's freaking out of phosphate in trace amounts in city water (the water treatment plant description). Phosphate is a very common, natural, normal compound found in our cells. Why bring it up? I am confused.

Then he mentions calcium phosphate like it's some big scary thing. Its presence in our body is normal. Our bones are made up of Calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate.

I'll concede there is a big debate about fluoride, but not all water coming out of the tap is fluoridated. Mine isn't. If you really hate fluoride in your water, just run it through a water filter... or move away from a city & get a home with well water.

I clicked on another one of his videos, this one about breast cancer. His ideas are really out there..... woo woo land. He thinks doctors are all out to get us, that diagnostic imaging are the cause of breast cancer, and the medical profession is conspiring to keep us sick and dying. He also thinks breast cancer works just like bread mold
(not even close!)


I don't have a problem with someone who challenges existing ideas, but there needs to be science behind it. He doesn't even seem to understand basic bio and chemistry. Sorry to be a wet blanket, but he's doing more harm than good by disseminating wrong information.

[ginkgo]

Originally Posted by brandongilbert

Based on the responses it seems clear that neither of the first two people watched or listened to the video.

Both of your responses have nothing to do with anything that was said in the video.

However i would recommend watching the video.

Here is one of the rules for using this forum: "Adequately describe linked content - When posting links to files or web sites, include a clear description of the linked content. This allows members to more easily decide whether a link will be of interest to them."

[ginkgo]

I just watched some of the video. It is kind of stupid. We do not live in the water. We live in the air with our feet on the ground. So the is analogy would be about how important is air to us. It is of utmost importance. If the air is poisoned then we would die.

We breathe air. Fish breathe water with dissolved oxygen in it. Dolphins are mammals, not fish and breath air. Toxins in water are bad for you but that is not about the importance of water but of water quality.

How much oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air is more important than the food we eat. But again, we live in the air and fish live in water. In other words the water is to fish as air is to people. This is the kind of things that are on IQ tests. Water to fish is not the same as water is to people.

[Timothy Smith]

Originally Posted by Jarreddo

The answer is: It's important, but not as important as the Internet tells you.

Drink a glass an hour or something and you'll be fine. Ignore the crazy people who say you should be drinking half a gallon every twenty minutes and then pissing clear every five minutes. It's no fun.

Please use urinate or pee, some little kids might come here.

[Inthon]

Listen to your body and drink as much as you feel necessary.

Also, fruits/vegetables contain water so on a healthy diet, not as much drinking water is needed.

[Knk]

I can tell you that consuming enough water is absolutely crucial. I have just come out of two months of feeling terrible. I felt weak, tired, in a mental fog, lethargic, depressed, anxious, stressed/moody, and just overall horrible.

For two months I could not figure out why I was getting so sick. I literally felt bad every day, almost all day. I spent hours searching the internet to figure out why I was so ill, when all of a sudden a question popped in to my head. When was the last time I drank water?

I started to think of it and I realized that the only time I really drink water is at the gym when I'm working out. Other than that, I only drink coke, coffee and a sip of water here and there.

I immediately ran down the stairs, grabbed a big glass of water and chugged it. Within about 30 seconds, the mental fog started to decrease and I felt better almost immediately. I drank a big glass of water every hour for the rest of the day and for the first time in 2 months, I finally feel good and not sick. Actually I feel great.

I will never deprive myself of water again. I know the harmful effects of doing so, and I would never want to have another experience like that again.