Name: What Happens if You Stop Drinking Water
Uploaded: 2020-10-19T20:10:17.000Z
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water is crucial to our survival, in fact a new born baby is 75 percent water but as

you grow elder, that number reduces to 60 or 55 percent.

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But that's still a significant number, so what would happen if you suddenly stopped

Water is like a fuel to most of your organs, it helps your brain to function properly,

lowers your blood pressure, and strengthens your muscles!

But since your brain is 75% water, it's the first organ to suffer out of dehydration.

Even if you avoid water for a single day, your brain will literally start to shrink.

It will have to work harder to survive since your energy level is going to be low.

So even a simple task will suddenly be difficult for you to perform.

You will be in a bad mood, you will start loosing your ability to concentrate and most

importantly you are going to suffer from a memory loss!

Your body will try to survive with minimum water thats available within you, so your

skin will get dry, you will start feeling tired and dizzy!

After 3 days without water, your organs will have a difficult time to survive, in fact

they will start to shut down one after another.

In other words, you will slowly start dying.

Most people won't even survive more than 3 days.

So even 1 day without water can have significant negative consequences.

That doesn't mean you have to constantly keep drinking water, because over-hydration

Despite the importance of water to our survival, almost 800 million people don't even have

access to clean water , thats more than twice the population of united states, and up to

8 million people die annually because of that!

So if you have clean water to drink, thats already something to be grateful for.

But, How Much Water Should you Drink a Day!

Unfortunately there isn't an exact answer, since there are a lot of factors to consider

such as your age, weight, height and so on.!

A person who does a lot of physical work needs more water than the one who is in front of

But in general, its something between 2.5 liters a day for woman and 3.5 liters for man!

The best time to drink water is when you just wake up since you haven't been hydrated

By the way, at least one fifth of your water is going to come from the food that you eat!

Don't overcomplicate it, simply keep a bottle of water with you all the time and drink whenever