EP 15 - HYDRATION NATION: A CONTROVERSIAL TAKE ON THE WATER YOU KNOW AND LOVE
In this episode of Get Your Shit Together we chat about…
🧡 Hydration benefits and signs of dehydration you may not think about
🧡 Is more better? Why do you have to pee all the time? + other hydration myths
🧡 Sometimes drinks and what to stop drinking right now
🧡 Better water options for home and on the go
🧡 Beverage picks when we’re bored with water
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Resources
Swap your big plastic jug for a stainless steel S’Well bottle or Contigo water bottles.
Clean up your drinking water with Berkey filters.
Warm coconut water tastes like mucus. We’ll take ours fresh and chilled on vacation in Bali [Diane], chilled with some citrus or lil juicy, or that pink water from Harmless Harvest,
What We’re Consuming: Film & TV
We both had a couple of flops!
Adina watched Happily, a dark rom com starring Joel McHale and started the first episode of the Gossip Girls reboot on HBO Max. Both were meh.
Diane got sucked into [another] zombie title with Army of the Dead by Zack Snyder [think Guardians of the Galaxy] but needs some light, actually good movies and TV for real this time.
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Transcript
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Diane: 0:32
Hey, friends and welcome back to another episode of G Y S T that's the IG safe abbreviation, a brief, we
Adina: 0:41
to change that?
Diane: 0:43
y'all. I think we might need to change for the gram for mark Zuckerberg sake to gyst podcast or something for our Instagram handle. Yeah. We can see answered on Tuesdays
Adina: 0:56
Getting censored on a Tuesday.
Diane: 0:58
annoying. Oh, that asterisk always annoys me because everyone knows we're saying shit, everyone knows, but I guess he got to play by the rules.
Adina: 1:07
Yeah. Instagram is not a safe space for us.
Diane: 1:11
Okay. And we want to make sure that you all see and hear this hot content, but as we were mentioning the last episode I wanted to thank you for getting us to now we're 5,500 podcasts downloads and climbing
Adina: 1:25
Should we do a giveaway when we hit 10 K I think
Diane: 1:28
Oh yeah. I'm into it. Oprah style. You get something, you get something
Adina: 1:33
yeah, we got to figure out what that something is, but we want to thank you guys. So get us to 10 K downloads and maybe we'll have some goodies for you.
Diane: 1:42
Yeah. Thanks friends. Although Adina what are you getting into this past week? What are you consuming?
Adina: 1:47
What are we consuming? What are we consuming? It's been a rough week around here, as you can hear from. My cords right now, I am a raspy, and this is the best it's been. I think I got some kind of little virus of some sort, some sort of, yeah, some cold or something. I don't know if I told you about this, but Minnie had at first and after the holiday weekend, she woke up Monday morning, so tired. And I thought it was just cause like we did two activities on Sunday and we haven't done big activities in a long time. So I thought she was just wiped, but she wanted to hang in her bed and she didn't want to come downstairs with us. She was just silent in her bed. Like we went into her room and she was just like quietly resting there. So I took Abe downstairs. We started making breakfast and then all of a sudden I hear many hysterically crying and Donnie runs upstairs and she goes, my voice is broken. It was so sad. Like she's never had a horse voice before. So she.
Diane: 2:44
maybe it's not coming back.
Adina: 2:46
And when I was a kid, I had nightmares about that, like crying out for help and my voice not working. So I felt so, so sad for her.
Diane: 2:55
We have, we told everybody about. When she first experienced vomiting and what she thought, her, how she described that. I don't think we have.
Adina: 3:04
yeah, no, she, she threw up once and she was like, mommy, what's that on me? It's so sad.
Diane: 3:12
my stomach was being sarcastic.
Adina: 3:15
said, I think my stomach was being sarcastic. What's on me.
Diane: 3:19
Oh, hilarious. I think something is going around. Even Doug, my pug has something he's been hacking and honking really sounding like a duck. So that lung butter it's, it's going around and that's not the butter that we want.
Adina: 3:33
Yeah, we definitely don't want that lung butter. I think it's like, I mean, we've all been. Not really exercising our immune systems for a year and a half. So people are hanging around germs for the first time, which is a great thing. And it's nice to know that our immune system still work. When we Mount a response to a virus. That is a good thing. That's our immune system saying, I see that thing. I'm going to deal with it. And so hoping it's just clear as quickly. I know for me, I need to rest more for it to clear. I've been pushing a little bit too hard. So
Diane: 4:04
Dwight would tell you that you need to hand de sanitization station. Do you remember that episode?
Adina: 4:10
Yes. God bless you, Dwight.
Diane: 4:12
Uh, it was hilarious that he took it farther. He's like, no, we need bowls around the office of different fluids to exercise our immune system. Like, okay. Not that far, like I'll just go outside garden, go for a walk. Uh, it's been really crummy weather here too, and it's just been pouring flooding, which okay, fine. We need that rain. But with that have come clouds of mosquitoes, just absolute clouds of them. So I always say there's no, there's no bad weather for going for a walk as bad clothing. Oh, I said the w word. Couple dogs didn't hear me. So yeah, hopefully we get some more sunshine, less mosquitoes there. Another enemy.
Adina: 4:55
Yeah. This summer has been pretty rough, like humidity rain. It started out good. And then it just kind of took a turn. But
Diane: 5:01
are you watching anything while you're recovering?
Adina: 5:04
so yeah, when we get into it, the seasons of like stressy and like not feeling well, I told you we just do a lot of like half-hour comedy hugs. So I've been doing a bunch of office episodes, but we did watch a movie it's called happily and Diane and I were joking before this episode. Recommendations this episode are more like what not to watch. Um, but this is, we watched happily it. I thought it was going to be better than it was. That's the annoying thing. It's kind of like a dark romantic comedy, which signed me up for that. That always sounds great to me. It's a pretty good cast, like notably Joel McHale. So if you enjoyed him in community, um, Natalie Morales, so she's actually, I know she actually directed plan B, which is the movie that you talked about recently, but she played Tom Haverford’s, girlfriend, Lucy on the later seasons of parks. And then, um, I forgot his name, but the dude who plays the man in the high castle, which if you didn't watch that show, I loved it. That was like an alternate universe.
Diane: 6:06
that's a dark one too.
Adina: 6:07
Yeah. It was like an alternate universe. Like if the allies had won world war two type thing and like Nazi time square. So that was, I really enjoyed that series, but yeah, he's the dude who plays the man in the high castle in that. And also Paul Scheer, who hilarious comedian love him. So like the cast was fun and it was pretty short movie, which is usually did you see Netflix added a 90 minute movies category?
Diane: 6:33
Ooh, no, but I need that because sometimes I'm like, I can't commit to a movie, but I'll watch a 10 hour season.
Adina: 6:39
Yeah. So that's a perfect category. Cause I know we all feel that like I'm only watching this movie if it is 90 minutes, but yeah, so like the first hour was going great and I really enjoyed it. Quirky, good dialogue. Like where is this story going? Kind of feel, and then I don't want to spoil it, but like the last, the back half of the movie. Satisfying enough for me. So I wouldn't say definitely don't watch it. There were redeeming things about it. There were enjoyable moments, but on the whole, it didn't do what I needed it to. Do
Diane: 7:14
the mirror. So we have some things that maybe you could take out of your queue, or I don't know, maybe that's someone else's yum, but, uh, over here, uh, last night, my dad's visiting from Virginia and haven't seen my mom couldn't make the trip, but haven't seen my parents in like six months and we're just looking for something light. My dad was feeling a thriller, so we put on army of the dead, another zombie movie. And this one's more of a, oh, I say I don't like them, but maybe I'm just, you know, maybe I'm just trying to prepare myself or, you know, some get some hot tea. there be a zombie apocalypse, but this one, these were sprinters on as while there as well. They were kind of like those from, I am legend, but this was there a military, a weapon gone very awry but it was directed by Zach Snyder who did guardians of the galaxy. So it's not too scary. There is definitely gore, but it's a little bit lighter. Sometimes felt like a comedy. I saw TIG Notaro was in it. And I know she's a comedian, a couple of other familiar faces, Dave Battista, who is in guardians of the galaxy. And I was like, oh, okay. It makes sense that he was a WWE wrestler. So it was kind of light. Um, but it was just okay.
Adina: 8:26
Yeah,
Diane: 8:27
Really? Not that much. I am. Yeah.
Adina: 8:30
forgot. We started the new gossip girl.
Diane: 8:33
Oh yeah. With, um, what's her name starts the T she was a blogger, I think back in like the live journal days. Super cute little blonde bob
Adina: 8:43
yeah. I don't honestly, like I didn't do much research about anyone. Um, but I had a great time watching it. It was fun. Like it's, you know, Dani is always on board for these like low brow type. Hilarious. Enjoyable dramedy comedy, like all kinds of fun. as you know, if you listen to the beginning of this show, we watched gossip girl, the original later in life. And so we were excited for this reboot. It is fun. I'm excited to see where it goes. A lot of stupidity. I think that is this going to become like a gossip girl recap podcasts. Cause I'm watching it weekly.
Diane: 9:23
I might give this one an attempt because, um, it seems like the cast and the reboots a little bit better.
Adina: 9:28
Oh, do that. That would be fun for us. So
Diane: 9:31
book club. And if you want to join in, you can do it too.
Adina: 9:33
yeah. Hit us in the DMs if you want to join in. But I will say so I don't wanna spoil anything, but the way they set up the season is interesting. There's some storylines I'm excited to see how they play out. It's a little too. Um, some of the gossip girl monologues are a bit long for me. Like I enjoyed how cheesy they were in the original. And I feel like they're trying a little too hard with the writing on this one. Like, I feel like they were trying really hard last time, but in kind of like a cheesy, hilarious way. And this one, it seems like they're trying to be a little bit more poetic and I feel like that's not what we're here for, you know? So we'll see how that goes. But I did, it was a very enjoyable experience.
Diane: 10:13
HBO max. Right. Cool. Okay. Well, I'll try that. And if y'all have suggestions for us, you've been listening to our banter and have some things that we should add to our queue. We'd love to know what was the last really good thing that you watched. Tell us.
Adina: 10:28
Tell us.
Diane: 10:30
All right. Grab a sip of water, grab a drink, a sip of water. And if you haven't hydrated yourself, hit pause, grab a cup of we're going to fill yours up here and talk a little bit about hydration and not regular hydration, tips, fun hydration tips.
Adina: 10:47
a regular hydration podcast. We're a cool hydration podcast,
Diane: 10:51
Right. Because you might have seen the title of this episode though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I need to drink water, but
Adina: 10:55
which we didn't come up with the title of this episode yet. So by the time you hit play, you'll see it. But I feel like we have to make it really funny because like, I feel like hydration and stress are the two topics that people are going to see the podcast episode and be like, I'm not going to listen to this week.
Diane: 11:11
Yeah. Hydration station. We'll figure it out, but grab some water and let's get into it as usual. We're going to talk about some of the why, and also some tips, some myths that we're going to bust. So let's dive in,
Adina: 11:28
Yeah. You might be surprised. It's not just like. Drink water episode over situated. Wait, do you know that joke from the Lego movie?
Diane: 11:36
No, I have not seen this.
Adina: 11:38
Oh my God. You got to see the Lego movie. It's great. It's one of those reminds me of, um, like those early animated films, like Shrek, for example, where it was like way more for the parents than it was for the kids, you
Diane: 11:50
Right. I did love shag.
Adina: 11:52
Yeah. So there's some really funny jokes in there, but there's one weird runner about like this show that, um, what's her name? She plays Avery on 30 rock. Uh what's that actress's name you I'm talking about Jack Donaghy. His girlfriend, Avery, the blonde
Diane: 12:07
oh, Elizabeth bay. Um, yeah, this was
Adina: 12:10
Yeah. So she's a character and There's some like sit-com show called where are my pants. And every episode is just like a guy being like, where are my pants? And then in the middle of like the chaos of the movie, She hands him a pair of pants and just goes, here are your pants series over?
Diane: 12:29
Yeah. So this episode will be, um, like 20 minutes long. We'll say, drink your water. Goodbye.
Adina: 12:33
episode over it.
Diane: 12:35
I'm sowed over all of that to the queue. Well, we won't spend too much time on this one, but let's talk about some hydration benefits first. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know that you should be drinking some, but let's talk about it. Um, high-level reasons why you gotta stay hydrated. Everyone's seen that meme. That's like, you're basically a houseplant with more emotions. So you got a water self.
Adina: 12:58
houseplants have a lot of emotions.
Diane: 13:00
Oh, mine definitely do. But I love the ones that thrive on neglect. I also think of that meme where I think it's, I think it says an old man in trapped inside an old folks' home and he has his hand on the window and it said my plants, when it's raining outside,
Adina: 13:15
yes.
Diane: 13:17
Uh, and I have an app that tells me when to water some of my plants, but sometimes I just say not right now. Um, anyway, I digress, but here are some rapid fire bennies. So water and properly being hydrated will help you transport nutrients, cushion, those bones and joints. So you don't sound like a creaky, little mass. So supports the heat. Yeah. Everywhere, like gotten up and you're like, what's that wrapping paper sound? What's that crinkly sound
Adina: 13:43
Yeah, we need water. Water is important.
Diane: 13:45
I need water. It supports the healing process. And if you have lung butter, like Adina, you gotta to flush that out. Okay. Remove waste and toxins. Everyone hears that advice, right? If you're constipated, just drink more water, eat fiber. We've touched on the fiber note in a previous episode, but we're going to get into some myths here soon. And also you want to stay hydrated to keep that skin glowry from it within.
Adina: 14:13
Yeah. There, that's the thing. There are so many processes inside our body that require water to function properly, digestion, immune health, all that stuff. But the issue is that it's not just water, which like we'll, we'll get into way more. But I think a real piece of that is like, we need water for all of our cells to function properly. Right. We talk about this all the time. We talked about it early on in this season of the role of metabolism in every single process in your body. It is how every single cell does the work it needs to do so,
Diane: 14:47
mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. That's like the one thing
Adina: 14:52
right. Everyone remembers that. It's nice that we're actually getting, um, some more attention to those sweet little mitochondria because man are those important and it's cool to see. I mean, the conventional and holistic space, both paying more attention to that and creating mitochondria. So we often talk about the role of metabolism and how every single cell does every process in your body that it needs to do. So your digestive system, your immune system, your reproductive system, every single system and every single cell and every single job that it needs to do, and cells need water cells are comprised of a lot of water, but I think where people, people often miss the mark is that it's not just about water. Like there are so many people out there that are just chugging water. I mean, there are so many people that are not drinking enough at all. We'd see that all the time on food journals. When we first start working with clients, it's like, I love when someone comes in with an energy complaint. Problem solved. You drink one glass of water a day. Let's fix that. But there are so many people in the conventional fitness space, in the holistic space who are just drowning their bodies in water. Yeah. And flushing out those minerals and not actually hydrating at the cellular level. So we will definitely get into that in the myths section of this, but we did want to make it very clear to you how important hydration is, but that there are nuances here and it may not be what you have always thought hydration was.
Diane: 16:26
yeah, totally. So some signs of dehydration that you may not think about. Of course there's a common signs, right? Like headaches. Oh shit. When was the last time I had a drink of water and you start
Adina: 16:38
classic, whenever you get that afternoon headache. And this used to happen to me all the time. It's like. Either I'm dehydrated or I haven't had enough caffeine. That's like where the, the brain would go. It's like, wait, is this a dehydration headache, or a caffeine withdrawal headache. That was like the only state I could be in prior to my health journey,
Diane: 16:55
Yeah. Those two options. I think I had a similar one too. So yeah, the first thought was okay, did I drink enough water? And another common sign of course is constipation. And if you are curious about our take on fiber and that role go back to our episode about constipation I'll link it in the show notes, but some other signs of dehydration, you might not have thought about brain fog and shitty mood. Your brain is going to be priority for water rationing. I mean, you need that to function. It runs the show. So of course it's going to be priority for those crucial resources. So you're saying you're like a plant, but you have more emotions. You need a lot of water every day. So brain fog, you can be affected there. Your mental clarity. I also often will see clients who are tired and dehydrated and that mental clarity is low. Right? So as Adina was just saying, all right, did I not have enough caffeine today? And they might reach for that second, third cup of coffee, especially after lunch, when they notice that they're starting to crash you. If you've been following me for a little while on Instagram, you've heard me say almost daily hydrate before you caffeinate. Ideally you've been sleeping or in bed seven, eight hours or more. And that was without fluids, right? So oftentimes I'll see some clients. Especially that driven women who get right into their inbox right into their day, getting kids off to school, they get that pot of coffee on and they start there, but that's like, your tank's already empty and you are trying to go zero to a hundred on empty. So,
Adina: 18:35
Do you ever see that meme? That's like, oh, I just, I drink plenty of water. I just run it through the yummy machine first. And it's like the coffee pot.
Diane: 18:43
I feel like I would call it the Yamil machine too. So hear our voice in your head hydrate before you caffeinate even better hydrate satiate then caffeinate. So,
Adina: 18:54
for me, that's not even better. Right. We talk
Diane: 18:56
I mean, that's
Adina: 18:56
a non-negotiable.
Diane: 18:57
especially if you're symptomatic, especially if you're someone who is having trouble with your hormone health, your metabolism, start there filling your tank with adequate hydration and fuel food fuel. So hydrate before you caffeinate or hydrate satiate caffeinate so that you're not seeing sounds too and feeling good.
Adina: 19:18
Yeah. Let me just take a sip. Get my lung butter,
Diane: 19:22
Take a sip of water. Maybe you keep that gulp in there.
Adina: 19:28
loud enough.
Diane: 19:30
Oh, I could give you a good goal.
Adina: 19:32
My golf's not working.
Diane: 19:35
Got my jug out.
Adina: 19:37
Yeah. And Diane and I are gulping her water. Yeah. So, okay. We all know water is important. We've all gone down that spiral every time anything hurts. Like I I'm probably dehydrated today. And I think I've talked about this before on the show, but something that was a big symptom for me and something that I really struggled with before embarking on my health journey was fainting. I feel like I
Diane: 20:01
really? I don't think you've ever told me this. No.
Adina: 20:04
real? Okay. I used to faint on a decently regular basis and. My doctors would always tell me it's because I was dehydrated and I drank a shit ton of water. So I feel like that's not what it was. Anyways. One time it was always in the worst scenarios possible. Like one time I fainted on an airplane when I was a counselor for children on a traveling summer program. So stuff like that. Yeah. Anyways, as I started to learn more about my health, I realized it obviously had way more to do with mineral status and blood sugar balance. But we've all been there where we've blamed all of our symptoms on being dehydrated or have we all been there? Is that just me? Um, I've been there. So if you've been there too, I feel you girl. Anyways, I think that, like we were saying at the top of this episode, hydration has become quite misunderstood. In both the holistic health space and the conventional health space. And as a person who came from the fitness world, I've seen this all too often where people think that it's all about hydration and more is better. So if you've been around the gym, you've seen those bodybuilders or anyone with physique goals carrying around that giant plastic jug of water and just focused on getting in like two gallons of water a day, which like, first of all, let's not even talk about that. That is a giant plastic jug of water that has been sitting out in the heat.
Diane: 21:40
maybe in the back of your car in
Adina: 21:42
yeah. You know how Diane and I feel about heating up plastic and what that does for your hormones. But let's talk about that water for a second. Have you seen that meme? That's like, is this entire episode just us describing names?
Diane: 21:55
this is why we need a visual platform. So we can just show them these memes,
Adina: 21:58
Yeah. We have to put more of those on our Instagram feed, but you know, the meme that's. Here's a great, I don't remember the wording, so this is not going to be funny, but it's maybe helped me if you know it, but it's like, if you want to, uh, oh my God, what is it where it's like, here's a great way to deal with your problems. Just like drink two gallons of water a day. Cause you'll be peeing all the time and won't have time for anyone's bullshit or
Diane: 22:23
yes, yes. I have heard that one.
Adina: 22:25
Yeah. So
Diane: 22:27
Yeah.
Adina: 22:27
yeah, don't do that. That's not what we want. So we're going to talk a little bit about that, but we need to consider that yes, there are some clients and some people who will need to drink more water, but for those of us who are carrying around that water bottle all day and we are chugging all day and we can't figure out why we still don't feel good and you're peeing constantly. Like that is a sign that something's up. So first of all, myth, number one more is not better. If you are chugging way too much water and not being conscious of things like mineral. You are flushing out those minerals and that is harming your mineral status, which is
Diane: 23:03
you might, you're actually dehydrating yourself in this scenario, which I know sounds counter-intuitive. Oh, and more is better, but it is not here because. Peeing them all out. You're not able to hold onto that hydration by flushing everything through. And so you're flushing out those minerals, those electrolytes then got what plants crave is. Anyone seen Idiocracy where it's years in the future. And it was the other Wilson brother, Luke Wilson go he's transported to the future and everyone is stupid and they are watering crops with Gatorade and they were like electrolytes. They've got what plants crave. And he's like, no, you need to use water. And he's just like, you'll have to see the movie. It's hilarious. I think it's on Netflix.
Adina: 23:48
yeah. It should have been upgrading that Gatorade, huh? Yeah.
Diane: 23:52
too.
Adina: 23:52
But yeah. We need to consider mineral status. This is really important for your metabolic health, for your hormone health, for all of those cells to function optimally. So we can't just be flushing those minerals out with two gallons of water.
Diane: 24:07
before you order that big old jug or two from Amazon. Go ahead and take that out of your cart and get like a stainless steel water bottle or something from home goods, something smaller, it's easier to carry and it fits in your cup holder. You don't gotta be hauling that around Paul, those kettlebells around for a little bit. And, uh, I can be your workout instead.
Adina: 24:26
Can I tell you something, a huge pet peeve of mine is when bottles don't fit in cup holders. And I just got a great bottle that doesn't fit in my cup holder. It's like a centimeter too. Why?
Diane: 24:37
so it can roll around in your car instead when you drive
Adina: 24:40
Yeah. That in this, like behind my cup holders, there's like a little empty space, but I always forget my water bottle in my car. When I put it there.
Diane: 24:49
oh, ma'am you know, lanyard. What's this next myth? Don't drink your calories. Ooh Adina I think you put this one in here.
Adina: 24:57
So we've all heard it in the fitness space. We've heard it from the weight loss coaches. They tell us, don't drink your calories, right? Like drink water all day. Don't drink your calories because you're wasting those calories on drinks
Diane: 25:11
right. Like the coffee that you want to order with the cream or the juice. So skip that and just do water. That's the narrative, right?
Adina: 25:19
Yes. And first of all, this is a deep diet culture issue, which we can get into later. We can do an entire future episode about carbohydrates and sugar and how demonized they are for women, especially. And we have a lot to say about that, but that's not the conversation for today. Today. I just want to talk more about a lot of those beverages. Certainly there are ones that are a misstep, right? The artificial sweeteners, the clawing Lee sweet drinks
Diane: 25:50
the sports drinks which we'll
Adina: 25:51
Yes. The sports drinks, the sodas, however, right. And what's funny is that oftentimes that diet culture advice is don't drink your calories. So drink diet Coke instead, you know, um, which we know how that inhibits metabolism and messes with digestive function and blood sugar balance and all that stuff. But it, I think a lot of women who have heard this advice for so long are scared to drink things like fresh juices and
Diane: 26:20
encountered this a lot from clients. Yeah.
Adina: 26:23
and we know what an incredible role, so many of those juices that are loaded with minerals, vitamins, and can play a really big role in actually maintaining that hydration in the body and maintaining that hydration in the cells.
Diane: 26:37
yeah. And this is not going to be your sunny delight, which I grew up on by the way, it was everyday afterschool. And before school, sunny delight, one of those little plastic bottles and a pack of Oreos. Um, but juice can.
Adina: 26:51
what was that combination like? Because I feel like orange and chocolate are a no-go for me together. Like,
Diane: 26:57
I would brush my teeth and then have orange juice, which is one of the most disgusting tastes ever.
Adina: 27:02
no,
Diane: 27:02
It's so violating. Um, but juice can have a role in hydration, like a said, but provide it's a good quality. So it's not going to be your sunny delight or these conventional juices go for the best quality that you can here. Of course, we're always going to advocate for organic and cold pressed juices too. So that's something to look out for if you can,
Adina: 27:25
And don't chug them on their own. I think that's the big thing that if you've had that experience where you chugged a glass of juice and then felt a major blood sugar crash. We do want to avoid that and make sure that you are pairing these things with protein or eating them with a meal, um, that is kind of a way to mitigate that, making sure that you are pairing these well and not just chugging because yes, they do contain carbs and sugar. Those things are important for us. We just need to be mindful about how we pair them.
Diane: 27:53
right. We like those vitamins. We like those antioxidants, but just need to be mindful of how we are using this and approaching this. So some of our really symptomatic clients can't yet tolerate, juice especially my clients who are pre-diabetic diabetic or have insulin resistance. So if that's you and you're hearing this, you don't need to go ham on some juice. It can take time to get there, depending on where your thyroid health, your blood sugar, blood sugar balances. Right now,
Adina: 28:19
Yeah, cause be mindful that we do need carbohydrates, man. It's so hard for me to not get into this conversation deep, but we do need to do an entire episode on this, but we do need those things. And if you're a person who doesn't feel good eating them, and so you think like, oh, I'm going to go keto because I can't tolerate carbs. I can't tolerate juice. Like we talked about in previous episodes, that's a bandaid solution. And what we really need to be doing is focusing on optimizing that thyroid function, that metabolic health, that blood sugar balance so that your insulin sensitivity improves and you can better tolerate those things. This is a journey to be on and juice is a goal to be reached, like being able to tolerate a glass of juice and feel good drinking it. Because again, it's so important for that hydration status for that mineral, that deep mineral hydration status. It's just, if your thyroid is funky and you are not converting thyroid hormone into active thyroid hormone, that juice might not be a good fit for you, right?
Diane: 29:17
yes right now. So I like having that, that caveat there. Okay. This next one. Are you peeing all day? We touched on this a little bit, but let's say you are. Chugging your jug or two of water, but you're still finding yourself in the bathroom pretty frequently. The urination stations. What might be going on there while there's
Adina: 29:38
What is Leslie Knope? Call it the whiz palace.
Diane: 29:41
the Wiz palace? Yes, I do remember that one. I'm all for fun names. Like these Tom Haverford type names for things. I feel like that's usually his, his thing. Um, so some things that could be going on, if you are someone with insulin resistance or diabetes and your blood sugar is dysregulated, you might be peeing more frequently or even getting up in the middle of the night too. I hear that a lot from those folks. Maybe you are over hydrating as we were just touching on or drinking dead water, which we will again, get into soon. What's that just water and also something to Adina this is more your wheelhouse. Maybe you have some pelvic floor dysfunction. So how would that impact how often you're going?
Adina: 30:24
Yeah, I've seen that a lot, whether it's, so here are things that kind of go hand in hand, which we've talked about a bit is like stress and anxiety and gut and pelvic floor issues. So it's kind of a chicken or the egg thing, right? What came first that stress or that pelvic floor clenching or that anxiety or that gut dysfunction, you know, they, they feed into each other so much,
Diane: 30:47
like a call.
Adina: 30:48
but. What I see a lot of times, especially with postpartum clients who know they're dealing with some pelvic floor dysfunction is just a lot of those that just-in-case peeing. You know, whether it's like you just pee just in case before you leave the house or you pee just in case before your workout, because you're so nervous about that pelvic floor function. And what happens there is our bladder has a certain capacity. And when we pee before our bladder has reached capacity, we are trying, we are down-regulating that bladder function and we are training it to pee more frequently. So I used to struggle with this a lot because I was dealing with some anxiety around these things and pelvic floor dysfunction. And so I would find myself peeing eight, 10 times a day. And once I supported metabolism, which we'll get into a little bit too, this happens a lot with slow metabolism, but once I supported better blood sugar regulation, once I support. Better mood through things like blood sugar regulation and managing stress. And once I supported pelvic floor function, now I pee a very normal four to five times a day. And if this is the first time you're hearing that that's normal, just like with our, how to poop, like a pro episode, you aren't supposed to be peeing 10 times a day. So if you are little red flag and here are some areas of focus, things that we can better support to lower down that PP frequency.
Diane: 32:18
BP frequency. So you're going at four to five times per day. That is what we're looking for as far as optimal PP. And I think of anxiety related poops, but there's also P anxiety there too. So, oh, something to think about.
Adina: 32:34
Yeah. If you're just in case pier, oh my God. I just had a memory. It came back to me hard when I was abroad for a semester and I obviously was dealing with a bunch of mental
Diane: 32:43
Well, you studied abroad too.
Adina: 32:44
Yeah, yeah, so I studied abroad. I went to art school in Israel. I was struggling with some mental health stuff at the time in a long distance relationship, super on my own. And I remember so clearly lying in bed, not being able to fall asleep and thinking it was because I had to pee and peeing like three times in the span of 12 minutes, like lying in bed, going to pee, lying in bed, going to pee. And if you've been there, I feel you, I feel you so hard. That is a little cocktail of anxiety and some pelvic floor dysfunction that is not normal. It's not that you can't fall asleep because you have to pee. There's some blood sugar stuff going on, likely there's some anxiety and stress and likely some pelvic floor stuff that you got to work on.
Diane: 33:28
and that was before he even had bay bay. So you can have pelvic floor dysfunction without having been pregnant or had a baby.
Adina: 33:36
yeah. We talked about this in the strength training for happy hormones chat this week, because one of the women in the. Has an extensive weightlifting background. And she mentioned that she's been having a lot of trouble transitioning from belly breathing to the breathing that I recommend inside the program. And I think that a lot of my power lifting days and the way that I was breathing while I was powerlifting, I was saying how, like, when I watch my old videos, I can't believe how poorly I was breathing. It's wild, but a lot of that stuff set the stage for some pelvic floor issues that I dealt with after I had my babies. I think a lot of us who have an athletic background, especially a weightlifting background, and we haven't been taught properly how to breathe because a lot of coaches in the weightlifting and the powerlifting space are teaching, breathing improperly.
Diane: 34:20
right. Or not even teaching it at all. I've had that experience too, where it was never mentioned or you think, oh, I have to clench. I definitely was there.
Adina: 34:27
Yeah. I've actually heard weightlifting coaches say, take a big breath into your belly. And then bear down, like you're trying to poop. That was their example of how to brace your abs and man, oh man, don't do that. Don't do that. That's going to lead to a lot of pelvic floor issues, but I think that oftentimes that athletic background and that weightlifting background can set the stage for these pelvic floor issues later on. Or we may have them at the time, but not connect them to the pelvic floor. So even things like hernias, like I see that a lot in men where men with a weightlifting background are dealing with these hernias and they don't realize that that's a pelvic floor issue, oftentimes most of the time, all
Diane: 35:07
So spoiler men can also help pelvic floor issues as well.
Adina: 35:11
Yeah. And they may not manifest as things like leaking because their PP anatomy is a little bit different. But for women, I mean, I'm hearing from more and more athletes who haven't had babies that they're struggling with peeing while jump roping and lifting and things like that, but know that if you deal with. frequency and it's just like, it doesn't make sense how often you're peeing or you're hearing us say P four to five times a day and you're like, oh
Diane: 35:38
getting up at
Adina: 35:38
yeah,
Diane: 35:39
It's one thing. If you're drinking like a lot of nighttime tea or getting most of your hydration at the end of the day, um, you can easily change that, but if you change that and you're still getting up a couple of times in the middle of the night, these are some things to think about.
Adina: 35:52
yeah. Blood sugar. Definitely. We want to be thinking about metabolic function and again, that over hydration, anxiety, pelvic floor dysfunction. Those are the things we want to be examining.
Diane: 36:02
yeah. Let's talk about some of the things to stop drinking right now. We've kind of loosely mentioned a couple of these, but let's bang them out real quick. So first, well, this isn't a type of drink, but it's a habit. It's one that I noticed a lot on some food journals, especially in the hotter months, or if you're like, oh shit, I didn't drink much water earlier. I didn't hydrate before I caffeinated. So I'm going to play catch up now. And that habit that I want to discourage you from, is chugging freezing water during your meals. So what I often see this, as in say a client's food and mood journal is all right, I had that coffee. It was busy in the morning. So now at lunch, I'm going to chug 16 ounces of ice, cold water at this restaurant. And that's a no for all the reasons that we've described here in the episode so far, but really ice cold water is very stressful, too. It can feel refreshing. And if you do enjoy having some cool water special. Hot and humid. I don't blame you, but chugging that water flushing, those electrolytes diluting your gastric juices that you need during your meals. That's a note for us, especially if you're dealing with a lot of symptoms,
Adina: 37:15
Yeah. First of all, this one's for the Jews I've had, I've mentioned this on stories before, and I've had a lot of my Jewish followers reach out and be like, oh my God, this is me. If you on Friday, spend all day running around your kitchen, making sure that all your food is prepped for shabbos and you are not mindful of your hydration. And then you finally sit down at your Friday night meal with your family and you chug a giant glass of freezing cold water because you realize how little you drank that day. That is probably going to do you a disservice in digesting that Friday night meal. So this is one of those things where we don't want you to get obsessed with it and be like, oh, I can never drink cold water. I can never chug water. But if you're a person who your digestive issues are a real mystery and. You can't really crack the case on them. And then you connect that you are doing this regularly. It might be one to shift. You might see a big shift in your digestive system. If you kind of limit this chugging, the freezing cold water. And we actually, so in our home we use a Berkey filter, which we'll get into a little bit later on, but it sits on our counter. And so we are most often drinking room, temperature, water, and to some of you that may sound gross. If you're a person who loves freezing water, but I've gotten so used to it, it's not warm the water, you know, like it's, it has a slight chill to it. But I was in my parents' home recently and they have one of those like Poland, spring coolers. And I filled up a glass of water in the morning. And it was a shock to my system. I
Diane: 38:46
a brain freeze?
Adina: 38:47
I forgot what it feels like to drink such cold water. And like you were saying with, with. Being outdoors in the humidity. That is something I love to do, especially because I've had this history of eczema and some histamine stuff, and I've dealt with like some heat intolerance. So I find if I'm going for a walk and you guys know, I mentioned that crazy reaction I had recently. So if I'm going for a walk in super hot and humid weather, what I will do is take along with me a very ice cold beverage with electrolytes, like we've mentioned, making sure there's some juice in there, some sea salt. And I will sip on that throughout my walk to kind of keep my core temperature a little bit cooler so that I don't deal with that histamine overload, but exactly try to be mindful of not chugging that giant glass of freezing cold water. Right? When you start a meal.
Diane: 39:37
I didn't think this was going to be that controversial, controversial or polarizing, but I, again, a meme, I think I posted one, it said no one who actually drinks, water prefers ice, cold water. So people are like I do, but it is jarring to the system to slim heavily iced water. So yeah, there's some opportunities there, perhaps. I know it can sound simple, but this is again, something that I noticed very often on client food journals. So something to think about this next one really grinds my gears. That it is a popular trend. Oh, I want it to go away
Adina: 40:14
Go to the moon and never come back.
Diane: 40:16
Please. There's a time, a time and a place for this. And that's never an in the trash and that is alkaline water or pH balanced water. So popular brands like essential. Oh my gosh, I see this everywhere. And so many people are like, no, I need to have the right pH balance. Uh, you have your lungs, your kidney to do things like that for you. You don't, you can't be changing the pH of your body by drinking an overpriced bottle of water. You can't, if your pH of your body was out of balance, you would die
Adina: 40:50
Yeah, this is, this is one of those where I feel like it's so similar to the fitness industry when they do this, where they just like convince people that they need the dumbest shit, like don't spend money on this.
Diane: 40:59
don't need it. You don't need it.
Adina: 41:01
It's probably doing you more harm than
Diane: 41:03
and it's really. Propped up really popped up in the last couple of years. So when I go to health food stores, I'll just kind of take a Gander at new drinks and bevies out there. Neil really likes his bubbly water. So I'll try to find him like a fun CBD tonic or like flavored sparkling water. But next to that, there's always several options of pH balanced water. And I know so many health conscious folks who think that this is where most of their hydration needs to come from. And if you are someone who deals with, what you think is too much acid in your stomach, acid reflux, heartburn, I know this can sound counterintuitive, but pounding. This is only going to further exacerbate those symptoms over time. So the main takeaway, if you were thinking you need to get this, or you buy this just stop, you don't need to do that. You're not controlling the pH of your body by drinking this fucking water. There's my first F bomb, but I really hate this trend. It's a waste of money, a waste of time.
Adina: 42:03
go away, go away. Alkaline water, go away.
Diane: 42:07
Oh, that's one. We also mentioned, and I don't think it'll come as a surprise, but sports drinks, so Gatorade, I was heavy into vitamin water in college and
Adina: 42:18
Speaking of gossip, girl, the, I know the original had like some kind of partnership with vitamin water, cause they were always vitamin waters on the tables and you know, the joke at 30 rock about the product placement. And there's just like that giant Snapple bottle walking around. But.
Diane: 42:34
Oh, I remember those two.
Adina: 42:35
Yeah. So in the original gossip girl, they were always throwing these like vitamin water Hamptons party. It was like a real heavy partnership product placement kind of deal. So yeah, hard pass, hard pass on vitamin water, hard pass on Gatorade.
Diane: 42:50
Right. And some of my clients who are athletic they're training, they think, oh, well this is for athletes. And again, it's an example of that. Marketing is so strong for this
Adina: 42:58
Oh my God. Those commercials with the beads of sweat, the Gatorade, like.
Diane: 43:02
Yeah, you got to refuel with this. And the reason I hate this one is because artificial flavors dyes, it is so they're so cloyingly sweet. They're often using artificial sweeteners and things that are much sweeter in taste to sugar, actual, real fructose or, sugar sources. Right? So people might think that they are doing themselves a service, same as when they get diet Coke. Right. And think, all right, well, I'm not eating sugar, but you're your body. Your lizard brain is like, wait, I taste something sweet still. So that can, uh, further some blood sugar issues for some people too.
Adina: 43:40
Yeah. And if you're like, I only feel recovered or I only feel hydrated when I drink a Gatorade. I know for a lot of people, this comes up again, this one's for the Jews around fast days. We have a fast day coming up.
Diane: 43:53
this week.
Adina: 43:54
Yeah, we will not be eating or drinking all day 25 hours. And so I know I've had this in the past where I didn't feel prepared for a fast day or didn't feel recovered from a fast day without drinking a Gatorade, but we want to encourage you to upgrade your Gatorade. So we're still focusing on those electrolytes, but let's look to things like whole food, vitamin C, so orange juice, lemon juice, lime juice, like take some citrus, juice it in some water, add some sea salt, add some raw honey and mix that up. And that if you focus on that as your hydration source, add some coconut water to that, that mineral balance that electrolyte balance is going to do you wonders as far as that deep hydration without all of the junk and the artificial sweeteners and the dyes that are messing with metabolism, messing with blood sugar and difficult to digest and for your body to recognize.
Diane: 44:47
yeah, you likely have a lot of these ingredients at home. I have an upgraded Gatorade recipe that I give my clients. And in fact, maybe this is one that we add to the gyst mini course cookbook. What do you think? So we can add that in there. Um, so there are so many ways you can go about it, but when we say sea salt, we're not talking table salt, we're saying sea salt and a pinch. We'll do it yet. You don't need to add a teaspoon and make it ocean water, and have diarrhea, but that's not what we want for you. So yeah, we can put a recipe in the GYST, mini course cookbook, but canceled the Gatorade. You don't need it. Next step water out of plastic bottles, especially those that were hanging out in the back of your car, especially in the summer.
Adina: 45:28
Dani and I before I had this awareness around plastic and hormone disrupting chemicals and all that stuff, Dani and I used to refer to those as perfectly good water. Like the disgusting waters we found in the back of my truck, warm from the summer sun. This is a perfectly good water. Why would I buy a new one? But yeah, don't drink that.
Diane: 45:48
no. And it might happen maybe. Okay. Maybe it's not car, water, or perfectly good water from the back of your car, air quotes around that perfectly good, but maybe you're out and you forgot your water bottle. Okay. Go get one. Not essential now the pH balanced water, but go
Adina: 46:03
it happens. You buy a water from the gas station. Sometimes it happens.
Diane: 46:07
Yeah, totally. But if you can, uh, go to somewhere like home goods, I think home goods, TJ Maxx, they're kind of the same
Adina: 46:15
Are we, are we home goods, partners, home goods, if you're listening.
Diane: 46:18
Please. I find so many good little chotchkies and knickknacks. There also snacks. There's some great snacks there, but I've found, uh, I love swell bottles, stainless steel bottles, or I'm seeing more glass bottles with maybe a silicone little condom around it. I'm for lack of better words to protect that water. Cause I've shattered some that were just straight up glass, but I love like the 20 ounce or even the bowling pin. And I call it my bowling pin. I had the 40 ounce one that I found at home goods. And I think when we were at a conference a couple of years ago, we're dropping it and it's so, so startling when it falls over. But things like that will keep your water little cool for hours. And uh, I found some great deals there.
Adina: 47:03
Yeah, it's funny. The swell bottle I used to love it. You know, that like Creek it makes when you open the cap.
Diane: 47:08
Yeah.
Adina: 47:08
So that bothered me. And also when I started my breastfeeding journey. Which was like four years ago now, which is so crazy. Um, I basically been pregnant and or breastfeeding for the last like five years. Talk about depletion and mineral status. So I used to use a swell bottle, but in the middle of the night, when you were feeding a baby, the fact that you need two hands to open and drink from that thing, wasn't working for me. So I switched to a Contigo with a little, like, it has one of those, uh, the seal at the top, you kind of just push it's it's one hand drink, but now I'm using a Yeti with a straw top. And I don't love that the strides plastic, I kinda wish it was silicone, but you know, it's still better than drinking out of a plastic Poland spring bottle that from the back of my car,
Diane: 47:57
Yeah, those crinkly ones that make so much noise that come by the case. And yeah, so there's so many different options there pick one that you get excited about and it doesn't need to be a jug as we've described. Okay. This one we saved towards the end here, cause it's a little controversial. So if you have never heard this before, we encourage you to open your earballs, your hearts and your minds, and do a cursory Google store search. And that is about fluoride and fluoridated.
Adina: 48:27
yes. This one is going to be controversial. And I think back to the parks and rec episode where Leslie has just gotten voted out of office. So they did her recall election. And so now she's like a lame duck, but she refers to herself as a flame duck. And she's like, I'm going to get as much done in this town before I'm done with my office. And she's like, um, Basically going rogue. Cause she's like, what are they gonna do? Fire me? So she just, yeah, she goes nuts and starts yelling at everyone on the phone. It's a great episode. But her main bill that she's trying to pass is the merger with the Eagleton reservoir and adding fluoride to the water for the town of Pawnee. And she's like, nobody can oppose this bill. It's just going to make our town healthier. It's an amazing idea. It's so cost-effective blah, blah, blah. And then the opposing side is Jeremy jam because he wants everyone in the town to have cavities so he can make bank fixing them.
Diane: 49:26
he's a dentist.
Adina: 49:27
Yeah. And like we said, Looking back on these shows and how much we relate to Ron Swanson. Dwight Shrute I cannot believe that I am siding with Jeremy jam on this one, but jam tries to convince everyone that fluoride is a chemical, which it is, and that we don't know much about it, which we don't. And Leslie is trying to convince everyone that it's safe and healthy for them. And here's the thing just because we have been told something doesn't necessarily mean that it is true, and it's important to do our own research and to really dive into what this chemical is doing inside our body. And maybe when they studied this, they were studying a limit exposure. But if you are drinking fluoride in your water every single day over your lifetime, let's consider the compounding effect of that chemical and how it is impacting our health, our metabolism, our wellbeing. So I know this may be hard for you to hear, and if you are on the side of Leslie Knope and Tom Haverford and T dazzle, and you think that fluoride is amazing, um, Or if you are listening to this and you're a dentist and all you've ever been told is how good fluoride is for the teeth. There's so much to this conversation that like, I can't, we can't even dive through the whole thing right now, but a very important resource, which I think we encourage you to look towards is Weston a price who was a dentist and started to notice dental issues. He studied different populations of people and dental issues and how they related to gut health and nutrition status. And so when we are talking about fluoride fixing cavities, I think I would encourage you to step outside of the symptom management piece, right. Using fluoride to manage the symptom of cavities and take a step back and look. What is causing the cavities in the first place. And can we go there instead? And sometimes a chemical might manage a symptom,
Diane: 51:27
in the short term, right?
Adina: 51:28
but like, let's talk about the unintended consequences in the long-term. So like we said, if this is the first time you're hearing this, it may sound very controversial. It may upset you, but we are just here to bring our knowledge and the research that we've done. And we encourage you to take this as information to do your own research and, you know, agree with us or don't. But we just wanted to present this and we couldn't really talk about water without presenting this conversation.
Diane: 51:57
yeah, of course. And is it, I mean, we say this a lot to each other. When we talk about mainstream diet advice and how that's been gone awry and what actually might be truly health, promotive and correlation. Yeah. Mean causation. And is it that we have a fluoride deficiency or what about the standard American diet and highly processed foods and mineral deficiencies that exist because of those highly processed foods and are very depleted soil. I mean, why not look at that too? Um, but Adina mentioned Weston a price. So this man, he was ahead of the curve, I think back in like 19 late 1920s. Right? Very early and traveled around the world, examining traditional cultures and looked at their perfect dental arches, perfectly formed, symmetrical, no caries or cavities. And these people did not have any dog damn fluoride in their diets. They were very connected to their community, to local real foods and yeah, their teeth. Incredible. And it was interesting to see his photos of families who went from their traditional diets, right. To then moving to a city, eating modern diet and more processed foods, highly refined sugars, and seeing how they're younger offspring, how their dental arches looked different. So their facial structure appear differently than those that are older children that they had, or those other younger children had more cavities and more dental issues. So it's really fascinating. And prior to being introduced to him and his work really have just not heard about him.
Adina: 53:39
Yeah. And didn't make that connection. The teeth as this outward expression of mineral status and gut health and everything going on in the body, but it makes so much sense. And it's shocking to me that Weston a price is not the first thing you read in dental school. Like why do you know dentists that I know no. Who Weston a price is?
Diane: 54:02
So, Ooh, that was a big one, but if you're open, if you're cool, go and check that out and, and see for yourself. And speaking of water, it is now raining cats and dogs here. So we love that for farmers and for the grass, but don't know that for the mosquitoes
Adina: 54:20
And for, and for our podcast audio,
Diane: 54:22
Yeah. And for
Adina: 54:23
Diane.
Diane: 54:25
well, let's get into some, sometimes a drink. So, uh, we see these the next few here as things that you conclude on occasion, if you want.
Adina: 54:34
Oh wait. You know what? Before we get into sometimes drinks, just to round out the fluoride conversation, if this did spark your interest and you do want to do some further research and you are interested in it. Filtering the fluoride out of your water. Um, we are going to get into this a little bit later on for like our best water options, but there are plenty of at-home filters that make a specific, fluoride attachment that you can filter out the fluoride from your municipal water,
Diane: 55:02
yeah, we can put some in the show notes perhaps and, and go from there. So some sometimes drinks to think. First one carbonated water. I know this is one that Neil, my husband really loves. He just, we call it bubble water or fizzy water, fizzy water. This is
Adina: 55:18
calls, it many calls, it's spicy water.
Diane: 55:20
Spicy water. Well, that's an opt prescription. So
Adina: 55:23
is really her creativity is
Adina: 55:26
the roof.
Diane: 55:26
things. She reminds me of Tommy Haverford so here and with many things we consider the cost benefit. And if you're someone who maybe enjoy a lot of soda pop, if you're in the Midwest, those kinds of drinks in the past, this could be a good transition drink for you. Good option. So for example, if you were drinking like eight diet Cokes a day, and now it's several spin drifts that are sweetened with fruit juice. Okay. That's progress. I'm not going to say all or nothing here. We're not about that. Many of my clients who were soda drinkers had a hard time getting their water intake. So I don't mind this option and there are so many available whether you just want to. Carbonated mineral water, or you want something with some, some juice or some citrus added, but otherwise aim for most of your water intake, especially at meals for some flat water. I don't know what many would call that
Adina: 56:17
I don't know either just water. but yeah, it's again, this is one of those things where Diane and I are always going to meet our clients where they're at. So while I wouldn't as plan a, I wouldn't want someone to be drinking tons of carbonated water all day
Diane: 56:30
It's a lot of like packaging, too
Adina: 56:33
packaging. And I mean, if you are using something like a soda stream and making that at home, that's going to be a better option. But if you are a person who water would be an option and fruit juices, and, you know, mineral water, that would be an option for you, then I'd obviously prefer that. But if you're a person again who was drinking eight diet Cokes, then like this is going to be an upgrade. So it's always about moving towards, this is a journey. This is we're all on it. Like moving towards these better options.
Diane: 57:01
Yeah. And I don't even talk too much about water with my clients who are my root cause reset students in the beginning, because I want us to focus on food where there's more bang for buck, frankly. But, um, yeah, this is get your water intake in. And if you want a fun drink, we'll talk about some of those shortly to this next one. Alcohol, we're not going to go too deep into this one because we just did an episode about this. So go back to episode 13, if you want to learn more there, but if you do include, be mindful of your hydration, especially in the hot summer months of your patio, drinking, that kind of stuff, stay hydrated.
Adina: 57:37
Stay hydrated friends stay truly hydrated with that mineral addition. Yeah.
Diane: 57:43
yes. Ma'am next up, let's talk about better water options. I don't necessarily want to say better, but our ideal preference. Should you want to audit your intake right now? And first let's start off with tap water and a little caveat there. You could test yours. I have definitely had clients who live in the country in a more rural area with access to a well, and it's very, very good quality. Well, water lucky. ducks um, jealous. Uh, so you can get your water tested, but if you're in a
Adina: 58:15
you can actually do that on the EWG website. I think you can put in your city and see what's actually in your tap water. Yeah.
Diane: 58:22
Oh, that's fun. Right? So if you're living in a city, um, that will give you some information or if you wanted to dive deeper and see what the mineral content is in your wall water, you can do that.
Adina: 58:32
And when I was living in New York, the thing that everyone says in the city is like, oh, the city has the most amazing tap water and yes, it tastes good, but I still would encourage you to look into that and consider a filter. If you are drinking out of the tap in New York.
Diane: 58:48
Yeah. And there are on that note, some pitcher filters, that's probably the most accessible option. It's not going to filter everything out for you. Like, I don't believe it filters out fluoride or, um, some other things, but there's like Soma and Britta.
Adina: 59:03
from the research I've done, I think so much is a little bit of a better filter than right.
Diane: 59:07
right? Yeah. So do what you can and your unique budget, if you have the space and the coin, Adina mentioned Berkey so you want to tell them a little bit about that,
Adina: 59:16
Yeah, we love our Berkey filter. Um, we have, I forgot. I think we have the Royal size and it's a really good size for my family of four
Diane: 59:23
that the big, big one.
Adina: 59:24
it's. I think it's one size down from the big one, but yeah, we just fill it. I usually end up filling it once a day. I would say, especially when Dani's at work, maybe over the weekend, we fill it a little bit more, but we just fill it from the top. If you have a setup in your kitchen where you could get your sink right in, like you could get a sink hose right into the Berkey, that would be ideal, but it's a great filter and we have the fluoride attachments for it as well. So it's a carbon filter that filters out a lot. And so the one note I would say here is that you do have to re mineralize your water cause it does filter out the minerals as well. So I add a pinch of sea salt back into my water. Oftentimes I'll add things like a squeeze of lemon or a squeeze of orange, a little bit of juice,
Diane: 1:00:04
make that spa water as I call it. Do you put any fresh herbs?
Adina: 1:00:08
Yeah. Um, my mom always makes it and calls it spa water, and there was some people in my family who don't like it. So they call it dirty water. Cause there's like stuff floating in it.
Diane: 1:00:17
it's rabbit food in here. Do you have Ron Swanson in your family?
Adina: 1:00:20
she puts mint in there. So there's always like leaves floating.
Diane: 1:00:23
Oh, I love that.
Adina: 1:00:24
Yeah. But yeah. So Berkey and again, thanks to think about too is it's not just the water that you're drinking. Like you want to be washing your vegetables with that water, filling up your pasta pot with that water too. So anything that you're going to be ingesting in some way, I would consider filtering that water, especially if you live in Jersey because our water is like viscous here. It's so thick.
Diane: 1:00:50
yeah, if you live on the east side, I used to, I went to high school and live when we first moved to Michigan around Flint and Flint has had some very messy water. Unfortunately. Um, the Berkey though, I think I need to fact check this, but I feel like someone told me that you could poop in the top of that and then like clean water would come out of the
Adina: 1:01:08
So probably because I do know they have one for like, if you're traveling, they, they make a water bottle that you could literally fill it up from a swamp land and it will filter out whatever disease is in that water.
Diane: 1:01:21
Right. So don't want, I mean, If you feel like
Adina: 1:01:24
at home.
Diane: 1:01:24
this with your Berkey, go ahead and let us know. Cause I'm so curious what happens
Adina: 1:01:30
will say that.
Diane: 1:01:31
over it?
Adina: 1:01:31
Jersey water is disgusting. Like if you take a sip of Jersey water, you would be like, this is mucus.
Diane: 1:01:36
does it smell like sulfur and
Adina: 1:01:38
yeah. It's like, it's so gross. And that said, too, Berkey does make a shower filter. If you're a person who wants to filter, like your kid's bath water or something like that. But cause we do absorb quite a bit through our skin, especially if you're sitting in a tub. Um, if you, yeah. So I would never drink from the tap in Jersey. Like it's gross growing up. I would never take a sip of Jersey tap water. And when we filtered our Jersey tap through the Berkey for the first time Dani and I lost our minds from how good the water tastes we used to, we would make people do blind taste tests because we're like, this is Jersey tap water. You won't believe it.
Diane: 1:02:17
well, if someone tells us about how the poop and the Berkey filter goes, and you can like say we pooped. So clean can you believe it? Oh my gosh. Get nasty. But yeah, Berkey, that is one that some of my clients really love. We happen to have a reverse osmosis filter. And like you were saying on the taste note, a few of my friends have it as well. And they're like, mm it's that good RO water. But like Adina was saying with the Berkey, this one reverse osmosis is going to remove everything. So that's what we would call it. Dead water. Even the minerals, the electrolytes that we do want and need have been removed. So at a pinch of salt in there, it's not enough to just salt your food. Um, so
Adina: 1:02:56
And high quality.
Diane: 1:02:57
Yeah. High quality sea salt to that water and it tastes so much different. And I think this has made me kind of a water snob. Like we'll go to really nice restaurants and unless we ask for a bottle, they'll give us tap. I'm like, this tastes disgusting depending on where you are sometimes. Like, yeah,
Adina: 1:03:13
I know Dani and I call that butt water.
Diane: 1:03:16
that's what I call diarrhea. It's
Adina: 1:03:17
Yeah. Well, that's butt water too, but it came from this old joke where my mom, I think we, maybe we lost power upstate and I think she was so flustered by the situation. Like we were all up there for the weekend and we lost power. And then, like I mentioned, that's not a good place to lose power because it's literally out in the woods and there's, it's just not insulated home. And she was so frantic and she said the sentence, at least we have, but water. And I think it was just like, she was so flustered. It was a grammar thing, but we were all like, but water, like the toilets work. Is that what you're trying to tell us? So anyways, we call gross tap water, butt water.
Diane: 1:04:02
Oh my gosh. Well, on that note, let's round this out with our beverage picks when you're feeling bored with water. So my favorite is to do cold, has to be cold coconut water. I was just talking very diva and I need green M and M's only green peanut, peanut M and M's
Adina: 1:04:21
Yeah.
Diane: 1:04:22
cold coconut water, um, or I'll make spout water. So I like to infuse mine with mint. I've got a modest little herb garden here. Maybe even adding some fresh berries in there if I get bored, but honestly, I'm also boring and just like straight up water.
Adina: 1:04:40
Tell us why you don't like warm coconut water. Diane,
Diane: 1:04:44
I don't like warm coconut water. Cause it just doesn't taste refreshing and tastes like mucus,
Adina: 1:04:49
It does taste like mucus. That's why I don't like coconut water to begin with.
Diane: 1:04:52
I mean, out of a fresh coconut, if it fall from a
Adina: 1:04:55
oh yeah. That's
Diane: 1:04:56
we were in Bali. That was very fun. Very vacation, water, super delicious. Especially when I had Bali belly, I kind of had to hydrate myself heavily. Um, but yeah, spout, water or cold coconut water, pinch, sea salt, maybe adding a little, little juicy juice, but that's, if I'm feeling crazy and like I have a lot of time on my hands
Adina: 1:05:17
Yeah. Right now my big one is broth. Whenever I feel like this, like that lung butter, my hydration comes from a lot of chicken broth,
Diane: 1:05:27
mm Hmm. Even in the summer, you
Adina: 1:05:29
even in the summer, I just need to, when I feel like this, some warm broth and a mug, um, but when I'm cooling off, especially like I mentioned, when I'm going for those walks and the humidity and trying to keep my core temperature down, I love ice cold grapefruit juice with coconut water and sea salt and the coconut water. I'm picky about the coconut water, even when it's cold. Sometimes I think it tastes like mucus. It has to be. Either fresh from a coconut or harmless harvest because I find that one. Yeah. So then when I mix the grapefruit juice with the pink coconut water, I call it pink drink.
Diane: 1:06:06
Ooh. Oh, I do love that one. That's a good brand.
Adina: 1:06:10
Yeah. So get yourself a little pink drink.
Diane: 1:06:13
Yeah. Let us know what your favorite, hydration station beBee is. I think that those are all of my, I also like a good herbal tea or a ginger tea. I like spicy water. That's my spicy water, not the carbonated. I just can't do the bubble water very
Adina: 1:06:26
Yeah. The bubble water is bubble gut. For me, I'm not about that.
Diane: 1:06:30
That's a burps.
Adina: 1:06:32
I just don't like the experience of drinking it. Like, I don't like that. Some people think it's a party in your mouth. I don't, I don't like it.
Diane: 1:06:38
Yeah. And he was like it's so refreshing.
Adina: 1:06:40
It's hard to get down.
Diane: 1:06:43
Yeah. Well, you know, if that's your yum power to you, but here are some ways that we like to upgrade our water. And until next week hope that you stay hydrated satiated, and then caffeinated. If you want to
Adina: 1:06:57
stay truly minerally hydrated. We hope this was a little bit more interesting than your typical hydration episode, and we will see you next week.
Diane: 1:07:09
love you. Bye
