Dr. Andy Galpin

You have to be pretty far below optimal to be 1% of your body. Most of your body is water. So to lose 1% of that is a liter or sort of more, right? So that's to say, when we have done this a lot, I'd probably say, I'm making this number up, somewhere between 5% and 15% of our people that we've coached over the years have come in with problems.

You have to be pretty far below optimal to be 1% of your body. Most of your body is water. So to lose 1% of that is a liter or sort of more, right? So that's to say, when we have done this a lot, I'd probably say, I'm making this number up, somewhere between 5% and 15% of our people that we've coached over the years have come in with problems.

And all we had to do is just get their hydration not terrible. This is everything from headaches, constant headaches to brain fog. Brain fog is probably the biggest one. Brain fog and energy are the most common ones. 10%, I'm comfortable saying 10% of the time it's just been a hydration issue. Wow. What is it the other times? Sometimes it is, by the way, sometimes it's overhydration. Interesting.

And all we had to do is just get their hydration not terrible. This is everything from headaches, constant headaches to brain fog. Brain fog is probably the biggest one. Brain fog and energy are the most common ones. 10%, I'm comfortable saying 10% of the time it's just been a hydration issue. Wow. What is it the other times? Sometimes it is, by the way, sometimes it's overhydration. Interesting.

This is just anecdote here. This is not my lab. I don't know the research on this or if it exists or not, but this is just what we've seen. Generally, Women have an issue with overhydration. There's like, my wife and her friends have these like called emotional support models. It's like they go to work or whatever. It's like seven different, a tea and like a recovery drink and their hydration.

This is just anecdote here. This is not my lab. I don't know the research on this or if it exists or not, but this is just what we've seen. Generally, Women have an issue with overhydration. There's like, my wife and her friends have these like called emotional support models. It's like they go to work or whatever. It's like seven different, a tea and like a recovery drink and their hydration.

It's like bottles everywhere, right? I'm talking about you, Dara and Danny. But sometimes that's a case of like, they just consistently drink water, water, water, water. And so they get close to what's called hyponatremia. That's the science word for salt, right? Sodium more specifically and hypo meaning low. So what ends up happening is not that your salt or sodium gets low in your system.

It's like bottles everywhere, right? I'm talking about you, Dara and Danny. But sometimes that's a case of like, they just consistently drink water, water, water, water. And so they get close to what's called hyponatremia. That's the science word for salt, right? Sodium more specifically and hypo meaning low. So what ends up happening is not that your salt or sodium gets low in your system.

By the way, this is actually really common in endurance athletes. And every year somebody dies in an endurance race from hyponatremia. drinking too much pure water. You drink too much pure water, it gets really dilute. Sodium is half of the, well, it's part of the equation rather that causes an electrical gradient that lets muscles contract. Why that kills you is your heart is a muscle.

By the way, this is actually really common in endurance athletes. And every year somebody dies in an endurance race from hyponatremia. drinking too much pure water. You drink too much pure water, it gets really dilute. Sodium is half of the, well, it's part of the equation rather that causes an electrical gradient that lets muscles contract. Why that kills you is your heart is a muscle.

So your heart will stop contracting because there's no gradient difference. There's not a positive and negative charge from one side of the cell to the other side, so it won't contract and transmit electricity. it's not really super common. You're probably not going to die drinking like a little bit of extra water.

So your heart will stop contracting because there's no gradient difference. There's not a positive and negative charge from one side of the cell to the other side, so it won't contract and transmit electricity. it's not really super common. You're probably not going to die drinking like a little bit of extra water.

But if you remember back in the day of, there used to be things like fraternity rushes and things like that where they make the new pledges drink a gallon of water or there's been terrible stories of parents like punishing their kids. And again, it's not really common, but people have died pretty routinely. Really? Yeah, lots of fraternity people died from these like... That's terrible. Yeah.

But if you remember back in the day of, there used to be things like fraternity rushes and things like that where they make the new pledges drink a gallon of water or there's been terrible stories of parents like punishing their kids. And again, it's not really common, but people have died pretty routinely. Really? Yeah, lots of fraternity people died from these like... That's terrible. Yeah.

your heart will stop, right? You get super deluded.

your heart will stop, right? You get super deluded.

So most likely you're not drinking, you're not going to kill yourself, but what you can get is some way up that journey to where electricity, again, I'm kind of screwing up some science here on purpose for communication purposes, but if you can't send electricity from one side of a neuron to the next one, then why are you expecting cognitive function to be at its peak?

So most likely you're not drinking, you're not going to kill yourself, but what you can get is some way up that journey to where electricity, again, I'm kind of screwing up some science here on purpose for communication purposes, but if you can't send electricity from one side of a neuron to the next one, then why are you expecting cognitive function to be at its peak?

So we have seen this again many times. It's not the most common Maybe 10% of people, it's a hydration issue. Of that 10%, probably I'd say 70% are under hydrating. So 30% of that 10, it's a small number, but it is real.

So we have seen this again many times. It's not the most common Maybe 10% of people, it's a hydration issue. Of that 10%, probably I'd say 70% are under hydrating. So 30% of that 10, it's a small number, but it is real.