Michael Breus

You are that dried up sponge every single morning.

If you took that dried up sponge and you stuck it under your faucet and you open up the faucet full blast as though you were gulping water, what happens to the sponge, right?

The water hits it and it runs right off it.

But if you actually had it at a slower rate,

right like sipping water and you let it absorb into the sponge soon the sponge regenerates and now you have a useful tool you are the sponge and so the better you can sip the better it will absorb well one of the other things that i have heard about hydration is yes you should drink water but the other fluids and the foods with fluids count

Oh, absolutely.

One of the big recommendations that we have is making sure that each one of your meals has water-filled vegetables in it, right?

And the good news is most vegetables have got a lot of water in it, but having that decent-sized serving of it, you can actually count towards your water.

Absolutely.

And also, I want to be clear, you can actually count coffee towards your water.

Let me explain.

so coffee is coffee in and of itself is a diuretic but it doesn't really have that great of a diuretic properties until you get about three cups into you so to be clear and i am the sleep doctor i'm telling you that if you want to have your coffee in the morning one to two cups you can actually count those cups towards your hydration

Now, as a quick tip, in order for you to get the biggest bang out of your buck from caffeine, now I'm becoming the sleep doctor once again, is what you want to do is you want to drink your caffeine 90 minutes after you wake up.

You want to hydrate before you caffeinate because once again, your body is very dehydrated and

While the two cups of coffee do count towards water, you don't wanna mix it up with the caffeine right away.

If you do wait 90 minutes, here's what ends up happening, is the adrenaline and cortisol that your brain needed to wake you up finally starts to slow down.

And when you add caffeine, you actually get a bigger bang for your buck just by waiting 90 minutes after you wake up.

the only other thing about caffeine that i think is important to think through is when should you stop and so caffeine becomes important from a hydration standpoint because again once you hit the third cup that's when it starts pulling water out of your body so you want to be careful for that but you also probably want to stop around 2 p.m in the afternoon because caffeine has a half-life of between six and eight hours and so if you stop at two then half of the caffeine is out of your system by ten and that means you've got a far greater likelihood of getting some sleep

so let's talk about breathing because i you know i breathe i breathe all the time i seem to do it pretty well because i'm still alive i'm not dead well i don't think that's the right way to think about it to be fair like are you in great shape if you uh you know don't exercise no of course not right same kind of concept here is i do it could i do it a little bit better and is the juice worth the squeeze i

I think that's actually the more important question is, okay, Michael, you've come up with all these cool ideas to maybe make my breathing better or make my hydration better, but is it really worth it?