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Originally Posted by Talo
Nice, long read....Mine's just a quick point form.
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Mine is just to add to the information for anyone who is interested. Someone has to read the long stuff to get at the short of it!
The short of it is that there just has never been any real scientific evidence to support such coupious intakes of H20. The evidence does say that pretty much every fluid containing thing we take in "counts" including coffee, and the water in food. The osmoregulatory system in healthy persons is VERY efficient. Most of this "fluid retention" and sodium stuff comes from the practice of bodybuilders trying to shed water and "dry out" to appear more shredded. The average guy who bodybuilds and drinks coffee or whatever is not going to be all bloated with water retention. That's an individual problem. I used to drink 5 or 6 cups a day and never "retained" water.
I agree that we need plenty of water. I think, however, that forcing ridiculous amounts of it in the face of NO evidence and in fact, plenty of counter evidence, is just a sort of accepted dogma.
Of course with creatine you need a lot of water.