September 9, 2021 • 31 mins
Proper hydration is the key to unlocking our optimal health. Are you getting enough water intake each day?
Dr Dana Cohen or as I like to call her “The Water Goddess” joins me today to talk about hydration and how many of us are living in a constant state of dehydration. This can lead to a plethora of health concerns such as; brain fog, fatigue, joint pain, muscle aches, dry skin, dry mucous membranes. As well as more extreme body breakdowns such as; cancers, diabetes, alzheimers and more.
The benefits of proper hydration can have a dramatic effect on your health, your vitality, and your overall quality of life. Time to start paying attention to our water intake and stay ahead of the thirst.
Dr Friedemann’s Takeaways
Intro (00:00)
Why Are So Many Dehydrated (2:03)
Breathing Is A Hydrating Act (5:05)
8 Glasses A Day (11:02)
Drink First Thing In The Morning (13:37)
Born To Run (18:22)
You Have to Be On Top Of It (25:37)
Meet Dr Dana Cohen
Dr. Cohen has worked side by side with the late Dr. Robert Atkins, a true pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. Well respected by her peers and beloved by her patients, Dr. Cohen, most importantly, is a clinician. She is an internal medicine doctor who has spent her career focusing on integrative medicine. She has helped thousands of patients find relief from a variety of health problems utilizing the principles of integrative and functional medicine. She practices with an emphasis on the individual, understanding that no two patients are alike. Her results demonstrate that there is an art to medicine and a way to connect with patients on a level much deeper than what is achieved through mainstream medicine. She focuses on nutrition and limits her patients’ reliance on prescription medications by using diet, lifestyle changes and nutritional supplementation.
Her first book “Quench” with coauthor Gina Bria published by Hachette Book Group has garnered rave reviews and has a cult following of devotees. It has been published in six languages.
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Unknown (00:02):
Okay. Hi, Dana. So nice to see you. Again, I think it's
two years ago that you're lastin the show. So I'm really glad
that you came back. Thank you somuch.
I'm so happy to be back. Thankyou.
Well, you are the water goddessfrom me, because you talk about
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something really important,which is hydration. And I just
remember when I was not reallysleeping well, someone told me
you probably dehydrated. And Ididn't believe that at all,
until I actually drank morewater and did some more
hydration things. And all of asudden, I could sleep better. It
was amazing.
(00:44):
Yeah, I love that, that thatthat particular statement is so
important for me to hear.Because the truth is, there's no
studies that show by hydrating,better, you're going to sleep
better, there are studies thatshow by hydrating, better,
you're going to be able to sortof detoxify better, because
that's when we're sleeping weredetoxifying. But I know, from a
(01:06):
clinical standpoint, that whenyou're you're better hydrated,
you are sleeping better. So Ilove I love that you found it
firsthand. And that's what a lotof the book is about. It's it's
being in your own skin andtrying this odd and finding what
your your setpoint is for properperfect hydration, you know, and
and standing in it and feelingit.
(01:28):
So why do you think so manypeople are dehydrated and don't
really take care of thisimportant part of health.
So it's not really talked aboutas so much I'm here to talk
about it. And for many reasons.First of all, we're living in
different environments than wedid even five years ago, with
(01:48):
all of the, you know, the thefluorescent lights, the the air
conditioned environments, theprocessed food, the medications
that we're taking. You know,we're just living in different
environments. We're livingindoors and desert environments
than then than we ever havebefore. Cell phones, electronic
devices that are just giving offwhether or not even think about
(02:09):
the 5g, what we don't know aboutit, we're still have we're
surrounded by electronicdevices, everywhere we go. We're
not moving the way we used tomove. But the Yeah, so So I
mean, we're just living indifferent environments than we
then we were even
so we have habits that werebasically habits from an old
(02:30):
environment and the newenvironment would require us to
have better habits when it comesto hydration.
Absolutely. And also we wereworking harder people are
choosing to ignore their thirstbecause they don't want to get
up to go pee in the middle oftheir workday. You know, where
we're ignoring it we have towork harder and harder and and
(02:52):
you know, it's it's a problem.
So what from this new worldenvironment is one of the things
that drains your water the most?That I'm sorry that what drains
the water the most? You know,where you feel like you get the
most dehydrated because of thefluorescent light or the air
condition or what what do youthink makes you the most you
(03:13):
hydrated?
You know, I'm not sure but Ithink the first thing that comes
to my mind I live in New YorkCity. And if you've you know
it's funny because people thinksummertime is more dehydrating
than than wintertime becausewe're sweating and we're hot. I
think living in New York in thewintertime with radiator heats
that are just sucking thehydration out of the air you
(03:36):
know, I it's the worst and youdon't have a choice because most
apartments just come with themthey no longer have your choice
of what kind of a You don't evenhave control over it they turn
up the heat so high in thewintertime that's just the first
thing that just sort of came tomy mind at winter time and you
know, everybody's learned to puta pot of water on top of the
radiator so that it moistens theair a little bit but I think
(04:00):
yeah, I think indoor and youknow fake environments that
we're living in also with rugsyou know all the the carpets and
and materials and drywall andall this all the synthetic
things that are going in ourenvironments to are playing a
big role too. So I couldn't Icouldn't say which one is the
(04:21):
worst. I don't have a
all together not really good.Well, do you minifiers actually
work? Yeah. for hydration?
I think so for sure. Yeah, weeven give this this is a little
bit off the off the topic, butwe even give a little tip in the
book that to have a cup of teaat your desk, a hot cup of tea,
(04:43):
and not necessarily for drinkingfor inhaling that vapor. You
know, because breathing is ahydrating act you're inhaling
vapor into you know, wet vaporinto your lungs. So yeah, so
definitely air What did you callthem? What do they call to air?
(05:03):
Well, I just said it right. Iknow I'm blanking. We know what
it is. You made a fire. Here wego. hydrated today. Yeah. So how
do we know that we aredehydrated? You know, what are
the symptoms? I mean, I knowhaving a dry mouth is probably
(05:24):
or having not peed for 12 hours,good signs. But what else?
Yeah, so like thirst and drymouth, you're already too far
gone. Like you need to stave itoff. Before that I put thirst,
thirst being thirsty last on thelist. Meaning you want to start
you want to hydrate before youfeel the thirst you want to get
above it. So, you know, one ofthe things I love to this is a
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great thing to look for, we'remeant to be to urinate every two
or three hours during our wakinghours. So if you're not getting
up to pee every two or threehours, you're not hydrating
enough. But then some otherthings. fatigue, that afternoon
fatigue or brain fog that weoften feel, and that most of us
go reach for sugar because wethink our blood sugar's
(06:10):
dropping, I think more often isrelated to dehydration. So try
hydrating better before you goreach for that sugary, sort of
pick me up. So brain fog,fatigue, difficulty
concentrating, obviously, youknow, things like headache and
joint pain and joint stiffness,muscle aches, those are all
(06:32):
known to be to be a sign ofdehydration. Yeah, those are
some big ones. Dry skin, drymucous membranes, we talked
about those kind of things.
So these are like the short termdehydration effects. Now what
about long term if you staydehydrated, chronically? What
(06:56):
what's the problem with that?
Yeah, so there's not a podcastthat I'll do without saying this
next sentence that I hopeeverybody's listening. Know, I
want to be special stuff that wegot to not say. Learning how to
hydrate is the single mostimportant thing you can do to
treat and prevent chronicdisease. Hands down, you have to
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start there. Before you go onany nutrition plan any new
lifestyle Benjamin, you have tolearn how to hydrate first. And
that's because it's it's veryclearly associated with certain
cancers, things like and veryspecifically colorectal cancer
and bladder cancers. And otherthings is heart disease, there
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was a great study, it's in thebook that we talked about these
young men who they purposelydehydrated them, and then took,
you know, before and afterbiopsies of their vessels. And
what they showed is that justwith just a 2%, dehydration,
which we all can very easily getto in the middle of our day,
that it does the same amount ofdamage to their endothelial the
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lining of their blood vessels assmoking a cigarette does. Oh my
goodness, that's amazing. Crazy.So heart disease. It's been
linked to diabetes, which iscrazy. And and we know that it
is diabetes is is rampant, andit's on the rise. And while we
may be living longer, wecertainly aren't living
(08:22):
healthier. And that livinglonger is changing because we've
now had a little bit of a dipnot because of COVID or anything
but in the past few years, ourlife expectancy is not getting
any any longer. But But chronicdiseases on the rise and
diabetes is up there with with ahuge cause of chronic illness
and hydration first step andtreating even diabetes and so
(08:47):
much so that in this past year,this is not in the book, because
it was published after this,that there is a study as a very
small study. It was an animalstudy, but it was the first of
its kind that said water may bea treatment for metabolic
syndrome, just by treatingwater. You could be treating
metabolic syndrome, which is prediabetes. And, and then in you
(09:10):
know because of diabetes and thenext step and with a shared
pathology of diabetes isAlzheimer's. Hydration is linked
D high chronic low gradedehydration is linked to
Alzheimer's disease as well.
And why is it not taught more inmedical school? I mean, I
certainly not heard about itwhen I was in medical school
(09:31):
hydration or Yeah, why isnutrition barely taught in
medical school? You know, I wishI had an answer. It's a maybe
it's too simple. I don't know. Idon't know. I don't know we need
to talk about the problem is Imean, I think the real problem
is is that we don't have a wayof measuring it. We don't have a
way of measuring this simple lowgrade chronic dehydration. I
(09:54):
wish there was a simple bloodtest or a simple, you know,
measurement that you can take.We don't Have one. So going back
to what I just said, right inthe beginning, we need to all
live in our bodies know what itfeels like to be perfectly, you
know, optimally hydrated andstay on top of it all the time.
Yes. Now, the problem is thatpretty much when everyone then
(10:16):
says, well, though, you justgonna have six glasses of water
or whatever the number is, butyou actually say that's not what
optimal hydration is about.
No, no. And in fact, that's thetagline for the book eight
glasses a day is not the way somuch like the food pyramid if
you remember, you know, the, thethe original food pyramid that
(10:40):
was never really studied, right?Originally, it was it was a
bunch of nutritionists sittingaround saying, well, we think
that, you know, meat should beat the top of the food pyramid.
So eat very little meat. And atthe bottom is eat all the carbs.
You want lots of grains andpasta and breads, you know? And
then we now know that's probablynot the best way to eat and, but
that was never really studied somuch like the food pyramid, that
(11:02):
eight glasses a day it was neverreally studied and never comes
from nowhere. And think abouthow, how can you tell a five
foot two, you know, mother tohydrate the same as a six foot
four pro athlete, they both needto drink eight glasses a day.
It's crazy. It makes no sense.And I just I'm here to say that
(11:23):
unfortunately, there is not one.There's no good number for me to
give you if you twisted my armand said I need a number I need
to know how much to drink. ThenI will say okay, well, a little
bit better is drink half yourweight in ounces. half your
weight in ounces. Yeah, I don'tknow where you are you in France
(11:44):
in French. So give me this inlater. Okay, no problem. Okay.
But that is a that is definitelya better talking about pounds or
kilos. Doesn't matter. Oh, yeah.No, it doesn't. Well, because
the allowances you would wait,Okay, got it. Right. Right.
(12:10):
Okay, so that's interesting.Wow. All right. You know, the
questions a lot of I'm sorry,
yes. But I want to say eventhat, think about this for a
second. Let's say I you know, Isay somebody who is you know, an
athlete sweats a lot during theday, you know, is running
around, that still may not evenbe enough for them or you I know
(12:32):
because I do a lot of you knowketogenic diets. If you've ever
gone on a ketogenic diet, it'svery it's it's it acts as a
diuretic, you're peeing a lot.So I would even say people who
are on a keto diet, they need todrink three quarters of your
weight in ounces, and muchhigher number. But a simple rule
of thumb if you had to get itout of me, I'd say start with a
(12:52):
half your weight in ounces.Okay,
so give me an example. So what'slet's say I am weighing 190
pounds so that would be inounces then
80 ounces of that is a lot Wow.Yeah, but but that does not take
into account what you're eating.Okay, so so it may not be that
(13:14):
that's why that's why no nope,none of those numbers of how
much water I should drink isgreat. You know, if I know there
are days that I drink one glassof water a day I do it first
thing in the morning, and then Ihave a great lunch a really
juicy salad with you know, lotsof vegetables and maybe some
blueberries in there and then Ihave a great dinner a really
(13:36):
healthy dinner of just some fishand more vegetables and maybe
even have a green smoothiethroughout the during the day.
And I'm feeling fantastic Idon't need to drink anymore.
There are some people can getaway with drinking one glass of
water but but you have to knowwhat that is and and you have to
include food which is really theimpetus of writing the book so
it's it's about eating yourwater and and eating more. And
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the way to do that is by eatingmore more plants and vegetables
and and drinking greensmoothies, basically blended
greens with water and addingsome electrolytes and minerals
into your into your fluidcontent by just by like maybe a
little your first class ofmorning with a squeeze of lemon
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and a little pinch of salt, RealSalt that has the full range of
minerals that helps structureyour water, which we can talk
about. Yes,
absolutely. But before we gothere, why is food better than
actually drinking water? I mean,is it because in food, the water
in itself has a differentstructure already or
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absolutely does. So we wrote thebook based on you know, there's
so much research based on Dr.Gerald Pollock's work he wrote,
he discovered that there's a newphase of water that exists which
was mind blowing to me. We knowthat water exists is liquid ice
and vapor. We've always knownthat Now they're telling us
there's a whole new phase ofwater. And he calls it easy
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water, we call it structuredwater or gel water, there's lots
of different ordered watersanother name for it, there's a
bunch of different names for it.But it's this other phase of
water. And it literally is howthose water molecules, those h2o
molecules, how they layer uponeach other. And it's in that
layering that they start toshare electrons. And, and there
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are certain things that can helpcreate more of that structured
water in the body in the body,sunlight being one of them, or
actually, any light really doesit sunlight does it were really
good. And infrared light does itthe best, far infrared, even
near infrared. So so we needlight, we need water and greens,
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chlorophyll help structure wateras well. So it's and then the
other thing is in nature, that'show water exists. You look at
cucumbers, look at a cucumberseed, you know, inside the
cucumber, it's surrounded by gelwater there is there it's loaded
with gel water. So it's believedthat it's in that form. That's
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what's found in nature. And it'salso in that form. That's what's
found in our bodies andourselves within ourselves.
intracellularly. So the idea ofeating your water, it helps
structure the water, it helpsget it into the cells and keep
it into your cells longer. Oneof the ways that you can
experiment with this or or evenknow it for yourself is think
about how many times you've saidto yourself, I've been drinking
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water all day long, I can'tquench my thirst, I can't, I
can't satiate my thirst. Andthen try the same, you know, the
same experiment where instead ofyou know, maybe adding some some
a green smoothie and not havingto drink so much water or adding
more plants to your diet.Watermelon, you know, watermelon
is so much more quenching toyour thirst than just drinking
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plain bulk water. Because it'sstructured.
And as a structured water thanget really structured into our
system, what does it get firstinto another form like liquid
and then it gets restructured?Do we know that?
We don't know that? That's it'sa really great, great question.
We don't know that. And youknow, that's where the clinical
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sort of experimenting withyourself and trying on knowing
what what it feels like to beproperly hydrated, falls into
place.
I love to be my own experiment.I think that's great. Yes. So
I'm gonna do it. Now one of thethings that I really learned
last time where the magic ofthese chia seeds and I just felt
like wow, since ever, then thatis a form of hydrating yourself
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without having to drink a lot.So talk a little bit about those
and how they where you can findout about those.
So there's a fantastic bookcalled Born to Run. I'm gonna
blank on the author's name Bornto Run any runner who's knows
this book. It's a fabulous book.And he talks about this tribe of
desert dwellers. the TarahumaraTarahumara tribe, I believe
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they're in somewhere in Mexico,and they're elite distance
runners, and they do it for fun.50 mile marathons for fun, and
they run they they run with chiaseeds, and they drink very
little water and they were andtheir chia seeds sustain them
because it holds on to thatwater, it acts like a sponge. It
helps absorb that water better.That was the original how it
sort of all came to be. And thenwhen you when you think about
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it, you if anybody ever has evermade a chia pudding, where you
put water or let's say coconutwater with chia seeds, they
plump up, they create, literallya jelly like substance around
them. So they're incrediblyhydrating, and they hold on to
that hydrating. The other thingabout chia seeds is that they're
loaded with omega three that areparent omega three fatty acids,
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which we need our a la alphalinoleic acid, we need, you
know, that's very important forour cell membranes. And that's
important there are these, allof our cell membranes are
surrounded in fat. We have awhole chapter on fat, which is
sort of an outlier, an outlierof a chapter, but it is a
passion of mine because we werenot healthy if we don't have
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good healthy fats in our diet.You as a cardiologist, I'm
assuming also a little bit Well,yeah,
and I also feel like fat is sohas such a bad reputation and
it's so important at the sametime. So how do you then TSH
just one or two spoons a littlewater and wait until they are
crawling up and then you checkthem?
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So there's a couple there's acouple different ways you could
throw them right in yoursmoothie. You can make chia
puddings, there's 1000 recipesonline for for chia pudding. So
you can make really simple ones.Usually it's I do two
tablespoons in a little likeramekin with whatever kind of I
usually use a plant. You know,some people use if you're on a
keto diet, they use heavy cream,and it's an unbelievably
delicious dessert and you coulddo some, you know, maple syrup
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or some fruit, you could throwsome shaved almonds on there,
make a delicious dessert withit. Just throw it in your
smoothie. There is one littlecaveat to that there are there
are some people that can besensitive to the lectins in chia
seeds, much like the lectins inbeans and that kind of thing and
other legumes so though you maywant to soak them overnight and
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just plain water and then spoonit out and put it in your in
your smoothie or in your you canthrow them on your salad. You
could eat raw chia seeds on yoursalad too much like you would
throw flax seeds on your saladtoo. There's lots of ways chia
seeds are Yeah, they've become abit of a trend and they're
there's so much nice recipesonline for them.
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Now do you find it better todrink soda and coffee and tea
than drinking? Not at all orshould people in general just
not do that stuff?
Okay, so what I am hoping thatwhen you say soda you been
bubbly water like seltzer water.Oh, no, no, no, no, I'm eating
the good stuff. All that hasdifferent colors to it. Yeah,
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soda needs to go sorry. Soda ishorrible. bubbly water like
mineral water. I love there'ssome new new brands out there.
There's a brand that that got meoff of Diet Coke. I used to be a
diet coke fiend for my wholelife tab first when I was a
little kid and then we got ontoDiet Coke. And there's a brand
called spindrift that has it'sbasically just flavored seltzer
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water with with like grapefruitand nothing bad in it. Zero
carbs. It's that's how I got offof Diet Coke. So, yeah, and it's
Yeah, so sodas, not good.There's all kinds of crap in
there that needs to get rid ofand especially diet soda, I
think is probably even worsethan regular soda, you know,
between regular sugar and Ithink that the fake sweeteners
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are probably going to turn outwe're gonna learn that are far
worse for us than even regularsugar. Not that you should be
eating all that regular sugarand soda, coffee and tea though
that's a different story. And Ifind this is always I always get
like the yay that we've donesome research and that anything
under four cups of coffee a dayis not a diuretic, so So yeah,
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we can do and I don't know theequivalent of how much tea that
is because tea is less caffeine.But I wanted to say something
about that if I were to drinkfour cups of coffee a day I
would be a complete nervouswreck. Like I can't handle that
much caffeine, caffeine is adrug and people need to know
what their you know what theirtheir stress point is for that.
So I'm not I'm not advocatingfor cups of coffee a day for
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most people. But from ahydration standpoint, it's okay.
From a from a caffeinestandpoint may not be okay for
somebody people really directlyaffects your your adrenals that
kind of thing. So, I think it'sa little excessive and anything
above that I think is excessiveanyway, but coffee, herbal tea,
you can have as much herbal teaas you want in a day. That's
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great.
So when I have my little fouro'clock dip, I can have a coffee
and do two good things I hydratemyself and give myself a little
caffeine that Thank You made myday well you know one of the
things that a lot of peoplestruggle with is drinking in the
evenings the Hannah done with aday they feel like okay, I guess
it's gonna hydrate myself andthen there is a problem with
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going four or five times a nightto the bathroom. So is there
anything that you would saypeople can do that prevents this
from happening and still allowsyou to hydrate?
Yeah, so you have to play aroundwith it you know we lose as we
get older we lose our ability tomake a hormone called ADH
antidiuretic hormone right? Sothat is a known thing as we get
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older. That's why as we getolder we get up more in the
middle of the night to go pee.So it's you have to sort of
weigh out what like you saidhydrating better helps you
sleep. It's it's incrediblyindividualized. I do think that
by adding some chia to maybethat after that late night tea
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cup of tea or something herbaltea could help hold on to that
water a little bit longer sothat you're not having to get up
but you're going to have toexperiment there. There are some
people who just period can't eatit can't drink much after 7pm or
else they're you know, seven,eight o'clock. They're up in
peeing all night you know or acouple times a night and if
you're somebody like me if Iwake up to pee then I have a
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very hard time falling back tosleep. So you have to you have
to find what works for you. Idon't have a great answer for it
unfortunately is
hydrating food slower in thatregard than drinking pure water
and
I definitely think so.Absolutely think so. So salad
would be maybe a goodalternative to just drinking
glasses,
strawberries, some berries orsomething could be a nice little
(24:42):
hydrating snack. A peach youknow a plum could be a more
hydrating thing for you butinstead of drinking so much
liquid.
So has your work about hydrationchanged your life has improved
it 100%
Yeah, yeah, it's a in so manyways. I mean, let alone from the
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joy that I get out of teachingpeople how to hydrate and lay
people and seeing the dramaticchanges in such a short period
of time, it literally takes oneday, this is not something you
have to do, and, and go on adiet for three months before you
see the effects of it, you willnotice that an effect in one
day, so let alone that's, youknow, that is a whole nother
(25:29):
story. But yeah, hydration is,you know, I am somebody who with
diet. I'm not a bio hackingdoctor. So I'm not somebody
who's like, or I'm not, and I'mnot a I'm not a personal
trainer. So I'm not like youhave to be 100% if you you know,
go go go, you got to, you gotto, we're gonna be a sticklers
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on your diet, I do subscribe tothat 8020 rule with diet, right?
So if you give me 80% you'regonna see benefit from going on
a low carb diet or, for the mostpart, for the most part. With
hydration though, it's somethingthat I found that it is
something day in and day out,you have to be on top of. And
that is the one thing like andit's not that hard. It's just
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not hard. It's not necessarilyeven like I said, drinking more
and more water. It's aboutmaking your dinner plate 75%
vegetables, you know, cook youknow, how about cooking more
than one vegetable for dinner,one green vegetable, make a few
vegetables for dinner, fill upon vegetables, have a little bit
of meat have a little bit of, ofgrains, if you're if you're
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eating grains, you know, so forme, it just it took so much off
of my beating myself up, youknow, with with diet and and and
now just it made my life easier,better, I move better. I feel
better, as as I've seen in somany other people as well.
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Wow, that's very encouraging.And it's so nice that something
can actually be easy. Because alot of things just feel like oh
my god, Mount Everest to climband flip flops. So this is
really nice that you actuallyoffer something as simple
solution to feel dramaticallybetter in a short amount of
time. Who can offer that? Thankyou very much for that. Now how
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can people find out more aboutyou and your work and your book
and all the good stuff?
My website probably best iswww.dr dana Cohen calm Dr. Dana
Cohen calm. The book is calledquench it's found everywhere
books are sold Amazon. It's notin French. It's in six other
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languages, though it's inJapanese and German and Italian
and Spanish and Portuguese.Well, that's a problem. I know
we got to get through to get tothis point.
Sure. Okay, so does there anylast advice that you would like
to give people that you know,still feel like maybe I don't
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know about that hydration? Whatdo you think like they could
just get started with Okay,
I'm gonna give to two quickthings. First thing every
morning, wake up, drink eight to16 ounces of water with a little
squeeze of lemon and a pinch ofsea salt. Start there. And then
the second thing is and this isa little bit of a bigger ask but
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but not so much because it's itis a it's a craze, to have one
green smoothie a day. So a greensmoothie is blended vegetables
in a in a blender with water andthen whatever else you want to
put in there meaning what if youwant to put a little fruit for
flavor if you want to put alittle chia seeds you want to
put a lemon and ginger go aheadand do that but not a milkshake.
I'm not talking about yogurt andan other milks and protein
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powder. That's a meal. This is agreen smoothie. So try to keep
it light in the sugar drink youknow, but but heavy on green
vegetables like spinach, chard,celery, try doing that if you've
never done that before it willchange your life.
I love green smoothies I have tosay absolutely. And it does keep
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you going for a long time. It'sdefinitely great sustenance.
Well, fantastic suggestions. Andthank you so much for coming
back and I'll get you back againbecause this is such great
information. It's so importantand especially now that the
summer is almost over.
It's it's gonna have to be atyour studio in France.
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If we can do that at any time.Come over and then we can
translate that book for you.Okay, thank you very much. Take
care.
Bye bye. Well, this
was fantastic. I just gonna stop
Okay. Hi, Dana. So nice to see you. Again, I think it's
two years ago that you're lastin the show. So I'm really glad
that you came back. Thank you somuch.
I'm so happy to be back. Thankyou.
Well, you are the water goddessfrom me, because you talk about
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something really important,which is hydration. And I just
remember when I was not reallysleeping well, someone told me
you probably dehydrated. And Ididn't believe that at all,
until I actually drank morewater and did some more
hydration things. And all of asudden, I could sleep better. It
was amazing.
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Yeah, I love that, that thatthat particular statement is so
important for me to hear.Because the truth is, there's no
studies that show by hydrating,better, you're going to sleep
better, there are studies thatshow by hydrating, better,
you're going to be able to sortof detoxify better, because
that's when we're sleeping weredetoxifying. But I know, from a
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clinical standpoint, that whenyou're you're better hydrated,
you are sleeping better. So Ilove I love that you found it
firsthand. And that's what a lotof the book is about. It's it's
being in your own skin andtrying this odd and finding what
your your setpoint is for properperfect hydration, you know, and
and standing in it and feelingit.
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So why do you think so manypeople are dehydrated and don't
really take care of thisimportant part of health.
So it's not really talked aboutas so much I'm here to talk
about it. And for many reasons.First of all, we're living in
different environments than wedid even five years ago, with
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all of the, you know, the thefluorescent lights, the the air
conditioned environments, theprocessed food, the medications
that we're taking. You know,we're just living in different
environments. We're livingindoors and desert environments
than then than we ever havebefore. Cell phones, electronic
devices that are just giving offwhether or not even think about
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the 5g, what we don't know aboutit, we're still have we're
surrounded by electronicdevices, everywhere we go. We're
not moving the way we used tomove. But the Yeah, so So I
mean, we're just living indifferent environments than we
then we were even
so we have habits that werebasically habits from an old
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environment and the newenvironment would require us to
have better habits when it comesto hydration.
Absolutely. And also we wereworking harder people are
choosing to ignore their thirstbecause they don't want to get
up to go pee in the middle oftheir workday. You know, where
we're ignoring it we have towork harder and harder and and
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you know, it's it's a problem.
So what from this new worldenvironment is one of the things
that drains your water the most?That I'm sorry that what drains
the water the most? You know,where you feel like you get the
most dehydrated because of thefluorescent light or the air
condition or what what do youthink makes you the most you
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hydrated?
You know, I'm not sure but Ithink the first thing that comes
to my mind I live in New YorkCity. And if you've you know
it's funny because people thinksummertime is more dehydrating
than than wintertime becausewe're sweating and we're hot. I
think living in New York in thewintertime with radiator heats
that are just sucking thehydration out of the air you
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know, I it's the worst and youdon't have a choice because most
apartments just come with themthey no longer have your choice
of what kind of a You don't evenhave control over it they turn
up the heat so high in thewintertime that's just the first
thing that just sort of came tomy mind at winter time and you
know, everybody's learned to puta pot of water on top of the
radiator so that it moistens theair a little bit but I think
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yeah, I think indoor and youknow fake environments that
we're living in also with rugsyou know all the the carpets and
and materials and drywall andall this all the synthetic
things that are going in ourenvironments to are playing a
big role too. So I couldn't Icouldn't say which one is the
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worst. I don't have a
all together not really good.Well, do you minifiers actually
work? Yeah. for hydration?
I think so for sure. Yeah, weeven give this this is a little
bit off the off the topic, butwe even give a little tip in the
book that to have a cup of teaat your desk, a hot cup of tea,
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and not necessarily for drinkingfor inhaling that vapor. You
know, because breathing is ahydrating act you're inhaling
vapor into you know, wet vaporinto your lungs. So yeah, so
definitely air What did you callthem? What do they call to air?
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Well, I just said it right. Iknow I'm blanking. We know what
it is. You made a fire. Here wego. hydrated today. Yeah. So how
do we know that we aredehydrated? You know, what are
the symptoms? I mean, I knowhaving a dry mouth is probably
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or having not peed for 12 hours,good signs. But what else?
Yeah, so like thirst and drymouth, you're already too far
gone. Like you need to stave itoff. Before that I put thirst,
thirst being thirsty last on thelist. Meaning you want to start
you want to hydrate before youfeel the thirst you want to get
above it. So, you know, one ofthe things I love to this is a
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great thing to look for, we'remeant to be to urinate every two
or three hours during our wakinghours. So if you're not getting
up to pee every two or threehours, you're not hydrating
enough. But then some otherthings. fatigue, that afternoon
fatigue or brain fog that weoften feel, and that most of us
go reach for sugar because wethink our blood sugar's
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dropping, I think more often isrelated to dehydration. So try
hydrating better before you goreach for that sugary, sort of
pick me up. So brain fog,fatigue, difficulty
concentrating, obviously, youknow, things like headache and
joint pain and joint stiffness,muscle aches, those are all
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known to be to be a sign ofdehydration. Yeah, those are
some big ones. Dry skin, drymucous membranes, we talked
about those kind of things.
So these are like the short termdehydration effects. Now what
about long term if you staydehydrated, chronically? What
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what's the problem with that?
Yeah, so there's not a podcastthat I'll do without saying this
next sentence that I hopeeverybody's listening. Know, I
want to be special stuff that wegot to not say. Learning how to
hydrate is the single mostimportant thing you can do to
treat and prevent chronicdisease. Hands down, you have to
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start there. Before you go onany nutrition plan any new
lifestyle Benjamin, you have tolearn how to hydrate first. And
that's because it's it's veryclearly associated with certain
cancers, things like and veryspecifically colorectal cancer
and bladder cancers. And otherthings is heart disease, there
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was a great study, it's in thebook that we talked about these
young men who they purposelydehydrated them, and then took,
you know, before and afterbiopsies of their vessels. And
what they showed is that justwith just a 2%, dehydration,
which we all can very easily getto in the middle of our day,
that it does the same amount ofdamage to their endothelial the
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lining of their blood vessels assmoking a cigarette does. Oh my
goodness, that's amazing. Crazy.So heart disease. It's been
linked to diabetes, which iscrazy. And and we know that it
is diabetes is is rampant, andit's on the rise. And while we
may be living longer, wecertainly aren't living
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healthier. And that livinglonger is changing because we've
now had a little bit of a dipnot because of COVID or anything
but in the past few years, ourlife expectancy is not getting
any any longer. But But chronicdiseases on the rise and
diabetes is up there with with ahuge cause of chronic illness
and hydration first step andtreating even diabetes and so
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much so that in this past year,this is not in the book, because
it was published after this,that there is a study as a very
small study. It was an animalstudy, but it was the first of
its kind that said water may bea treatment for metabolic
syndrome, just by treatingwater. You could be treating
metabolic syndrome, which is prediabetes. And, and then in you
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know because of diabetes and thenext step and with a shared
pathology of diabetes isAlzheimer's. Hydration is linked
D high chronic low gradedehydration is linked to
Alzheimer's disease as well.
And why is it not taught more inmedical school? I mean, I
certainly not heard about itwhen I was in medical school
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hydration or Yeah, why isnutrition barely taught in
medical school? You know, I wishI had an answer. It's a maybe
it's too simple. I don't know. Idon't know. I don't know we need
to talk about the problem is Imean, I think the real problem
is is that we don't have a wayof measuring it. We don't have a
way of measuring this simple lowgrade chronic dehydration. I
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wish there was a simple bloodtest or a simple, you know,
measurement that you can take.We don't Have one. So going back
to what I just said, right inthe beginning, we need to all
live in our bodies know what itfeels like to be perfectly, you
know, optimally hydrated andstay on top of it all the time.
Yes. Now, the problem is thatpretty much when everyone then
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says, well, though, you justgonna have six glasses of water
or whatever the number is, butyou actually say that's not what
optimal hydration is about.
No, no. And in fact, that's thetagline for the book eight
glasses a day is not the way somuch like the food pyramid if
you remember, you know, the, thethe original food pyramid that
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was never really studied, right?Originally, it was it was a
bunch of nutritionists sittingaround saying, well, we think
that, you know, meat should beat the top of the food pyramid.
So eat very little meat. And atthe bottom is eat all the carbs.
You want lots of grains andpasta and breads, you know? And
then we now know that's probablynot the best way to eat and, but
that was never really studied somuch like the food pyramid, that
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eight glasses a day it was neverreally studied and never comes
from nowhere. And think abouthow, how can you tell a five
foot two, you know, mother tohydrate the same as a six foot
four pro athlete, they both needto drink eight glasses a day.
It's crazy. It makes no sense.And I just I'm here to say that
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unfortunately, there is not one.There's no good number for me to
give you if you twisted my armand said I need a number I need
to know how much to drink. ThenI will say okay, well, a little
bit better is drink half yourweight in ounces. half your
weight in ounces. Yeah, I don'tknow where you are you in France
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in French. So give me this inlater. Okay, no problem. Okay.
But that is a that is definitelya better talking about pounds or
kilos. Doesn't matter. Oh, yeah.No, it doesn't. Well, because
the allowances you would wait,Okay, got it. Right. Right.
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Okay, so that's interesting.Wow. All right. You know, the
questions a lot of I'm sorry,
yes. But I want to say eventhat, think about this for a
second. Let's say I you know, Isay somebody who is you know, an
athlete sweats a lot during theday, you know, is running
around, that still may not evenbe enough for them or you I know
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because I do a lot of you knowketogenic diets. If you've ever
gone on a ketogenic diet, it'svery it's it's it acts as a
diuretic, you're peeing a lot.So I would even say people who
are on a keto diet, they need todrink three quarters of your
weight in ounces, and muchhigher number. But a simple rule
of thumb if you had to get itout of me, I'd say start with a
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half your weight in ounces.Okay,
so give me an example. So what'slet's say I am weighing 190
pounds so that would be inounces then
80 ounces of that is a lot Wow.Yeah, but but that does not take
into account what you're eating.Okay, so so it may not be that
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that's why that's why no nope,none of those numbers of how
much water I should drink isgreat. You know, if I know there
are days that I drink one glassof water a day I do it first
thing in the morning, and then Ihave a great lunch a really
juicy salad with you know, lotsof vegetables and maybe some
blueberries in there and then Ihave a great dinner a really
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healthy dinner of just some fishand more vegetables and maybe
even have a green smoothiethroughout the during the day.
And I'm feeling fantastic Idon't need to drink anymore.
There are some people can getaway with drinking one glass of
water but but you have to knowwhat that is and and you have to
include food which is really theimpetus of writing the book so
it's it's about eating yourwater and and eating more. And
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the way to do that is by eatingmore more plants and vegetables
and and drinking greensmoothies, basically blended
greens with water and addingsome electrolytes and minerals
into your into your fluidcontent by just by like maybe a
little your first class ofmorning with a squeeze of lemon
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and a little pinch of salt, RealSalt that has the full range of
minerals that helps structureyour water, which we can talk
about. Yes,
absolutely. But before we gothere, why is food better than
actually drinking water? I mean,is it because in food, the water
in itself has a differentstructure already or
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absolutely does. So we wrote thebook based on you know, there's
so much research based on Dr.Gerald Pollock's work he wrote,
he discovered that there's a newphase of water that exists which
was mind blowing to me. We knowthat water exists is liquid ice
and vapor. We've always knownthat Now they're telling us
there's a whole new phase ofwater. And he calls it easy
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water, we call it structuredwater or gel water, there's lots
of different ordered watersanother name for it, there's a
bunch of different names for it.But it's this other phase of
water. And it literally is howthose water molecules, those h2o
molecules, how they layer uponeach other. And it's in that
layering that they start toshare electrons. And, and there
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are certain things that can helpcreate more of that structured
water in the body in the body,sunlight being one of them, or
actually, any light really doesit sunlight does it were really
good. And infrared light does itthe best, far infrared, even
near infrared. So so we needlight, we need water and greens,
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chlorophyll help structure wateras well. So it's and then the
other thing is in nature, that'show water exists. You look at
cucumbers, look at a cucumberseed, you know, inside the
cucumber, it's surrounded by gelwater there is there it's loaded
with gel water. So it's believedthat it's in that form. That's
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what's found in nature. And it'salso in that form. That's what's
found in our bodies andourselves within ourselves.
intracellularly. So the idea ofeating your water, it helps
structure the water, it helpsget it into the cells and keep
it into your cells longer. Oneof the ways that you can
experiment with this or or evenknow it for yourself is think
about how many times you've saidto yourself, I've been drinking
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water all day long, I can'tquench my thirst, I can't, I
can't satiate my thirst. Andthen try the same, you know, the
same experiment where instead ofyou know, maybe adding some some
a green smoothie and not havingto drink so much water or adding
more plants to your diet.Watermelon, you know, watermelon
is so much more quenching toyour thirst than just drinking
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plain bulk water. Because it'sstructured.
And as a structured water thanget really structured into our
system, what does it get firstinto another form like liquid
and then it gets restructured?Do we know that?
We don't know that? That's it'sa really great, great question.
We don't know that. And youknow, that's where the clinical
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sort of experimenting withyourself and trying on knowing
what what it feels like to beproperly hydrated, falls into
place.
I love to be my own experiment.I think that's great. Yes. So
I'm gonna do it. Now one of thethings that I really learned
last time where the magic ofthese chia seeds and I just felt
like wow, since ever, then thatis a form of hydrating yourself
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without having to drink a lot.So talk a little bit about those
and how they where you can findout about those.
So there's a fantastic bookcalled Born to Run. I'm gonna
blank on the author's name Bornto Run any runner who's knows
this book. It's a fabulous book.And he talks about this tribe of
desert dwellers. the TarahumaraTarahumara tribe, I believe
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they're in somewhere in Mexico,and they're elite distance
runners, and they do it for fun.50 mile marathons for fun, and
they run they they run with chiaseeds, and they drink very
little water and they were andtheir chia seeds sustain them
because it holds on to thatwater, it acts like a sponge. It
helps absorb that water better.That was the original how it
sort of all came to be. And thenwhen you when you think about
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it, you if anybody ever has evermade a chia pudding, where you
put water or let's say coconutwater with chia seeds, they
plump up, they create, literallya jelly like substance around
them. So they're incrediblyhydrating, and they hold on to
that hydrating. The other thingabout chia seeds is that they're
loaded with omega three that areparent omega three fatty acids,
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which we need our a la alphalinoleic acid, we need, you
know, that's very important forour cell membranes. And that's
important there are these, allof our cell membranes are
surrounded in fat. We have awhole chapter on fat, which is
sort of an outlier, an outlierof a chapter, but it is a
passion of mine because we werenot healthy if we don't have
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good healthy fats in our diet.You as a cardiologist, I'm
assuming also a little bit Well,yeah,
and I also feel like fat is sohas such a bad reputation and
it's so important at the sametime. So how do you then TSH
just one or two spoons a littlewater and wait until they are
crawling up and then you checkthem?
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So there's a couple there's acouple different ways you could
throw them right in yoursmoothie. You can make chia
puddings, there's 1000 recipesonline for for chia pudding. So
you can make really simple ones.Usually it's I do two
tablespoons in a little likeramekin with whatever kind of I
usually use a plant. You know,some people use if you're on a
keto diet, they use heavy cream,and it's an unbelievably
delicious dessert and you coulddo some, you know, maple syrup
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or some fruit, you could throwsome shaved almonds on there,
make a delicious dessert withit. Just throw it in your
smoothie. There is one littlecaveat to that there are there
are some people that can besensitive to the lectins in chia
seeds, much like the lectins inbeans and that kind of thing and
other legumes so though you maywant to soak them overnight and
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just plain water and then spoonit out and put it in your in
your smoothie or in your you canthrow them on your salad. You
could eat raw chia seeds on yoursalad too much like you would
throw flax seeds on your saladtoo. There's lots of ways chia
seeds are Yeah, they've become abit of a trend and they're
there's so much nice recipesonline for them.
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Now do you find it better todrink soda and coffee and tea
than drinking? Not at all orshould people in general just
not do that stuff?
Okay, so what I am hoping thatwhen you say soda you been
bubbly water like seltzer water.Oh, no, no, no, no, I'm eating
the good stuff. All that hasdifferent colors to it. Yeah,
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soda needs to go sorry. Soda ishorrible. bubbly water like
mineral water. I love there'ssome new new brands out there.
There's a brand that that got meoff of Diet Coke. I used to be a
diet coke fiend for my wholelife tab first when I was a
little kid and then we got ontoDiet Coke. And there's a brand
called spindrift that has it'sbasically just flavored seltzer
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water with with like grapefruitand nothing bad in it. Zero
carbs. It's that's how I got offof Diet Coke. So, yeah, and it's
Yeah, so sodas, not good.There's all kinds of crap in
there that needs to get rid ofand especially diet soda, I
think is probably even worsethan regular soda, you know,
between regular sugar and Ithink that the fake sweeteners
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are probably going to turn outwe're gonna learn that are far
worse for us than even regularsugar. Not that you should be
eating all that regular sugarand soda, coffee and tea though
that's a different story. And Ifind this is always I always get
like the yay that we've donesome research and that anything
under four cups of coffee a dayis not a diuretic, so So yeah,
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we can do and I don't know theequivalent of how much tea that
is because tea is less caffeine.But I wanted to say something
about that if I were to drinkfour cups of coffee a day I
would be a complete nervouswreck. Like I can't handle that
much caffeine, caffeine is adrug and people need to know
what their you know what theirtheir stress point is for that.
So I'm not I'm not advocatingfor cups of coffee a day for
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most people. But from ahydration standpoint, it's okay.
From a from a caffeinestandpoint may not be okay for
somebody people really directlyaffects your your adrenals that
kind of thing. So, I think it'sa little excessive and anything
above that I think is excessiveanyway, but coffee, herbal tea,
you can have as much herbal teaas you want in a day. That's
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great.
So when I have my little fouro'clock dip, I can have a coffee
and do two good things I hydratemyself and give myself a little
caffeine that Thank You made myday well you know one of the
things that a lot of peoplestruggle with is drinking in the
evenings the Hannah done with aday they feel like okay, I guess
it's gonna hydrate myself andthen there is a problem with
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going four or five times a nightto the bathroom. So is there
anything that you would saypeople can do that prevents this
from happening and still allowsyou to hydrate?
Yeah, so you have to play aroundwith it you know we lose as we
get older we lose our ability tomake a hormone called ADH
antidiuretic hormone right? Sothat is a known thing as we get
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older. That's why as we getolder we get up more in the
middle of the night to go pee.So it's you have to sort of
weigh out what like you saidhydrating better helps you
sleep. It's it's incrediblyindividualized. I do think that
by adding some chia to maybethat after that late night tea
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cup of tea or something herbaltea could help hold on to that
water a little bit longer sothat you're not having to get up
but you're going to have toexperiment there. There are some
people who just period can't eatit can't drink much after 7pm or
else they're you know, seven,eight o'clock. They're up in
peeing all night you know or acouple times a night and if
you're somebody like me if Iwake up to pee then I have a
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very hard time falling back tosleep. So you have to you have
to find what works for you. Idon't have a great answer for it
unfortunately is
hydrating food slower in thatregard than drinking pure water
and
I definitely think so.Absolutely think so. So salad
would be maybe a goodalternative to just drinking
glasses,
strawberries, some berries orsomething could be a nice little
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hydrating snack. A peach youknow a plum could be a more
hydrating thing for you butinstead of drinking so much
liquid.
So has your work about hydrationchanged your life has improved
it 100%
Yeah, yeah, it's a in so manyways. I mean, let alone from the
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joy that I get out of teachingpeople how to hydrate and lay
people and seeing the dramaticchanges in such a short period
of time, it literally takes oneday, this is not something you
have to do, and, and go on adiet for three months before you
see the effects of it, you willnotice that an effect in one
day, so let alone that's, youknow, that is a whole nother
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story. But yeah, hydration is,you know, I am somebody who with
diet. I'm not a bio hackingdoctor. So I'm not somebody
who's like, or I'm not, and I'mnot a I'm not a personal
trainer. So I'm not like youhave to be 100% if you you know,
go go go, you got to, you gotto, we're gonna be a sticklers
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on your diet, I do subscribe tothat 8020 rule with diet, right?
So if you give me 80% you'regonna see benefit from going on
a low carb diet or, for the mostpart, for the most part. With
hydration though, it's somethingthat I found that it is
something day in and day out,you have to be on top of. And
that is the one thing like andit's not that hard. It's just
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not hard. It's not necessarilyeven like I said, drinking more
and more water. It's aboutmaking your dinner plate 75%
vegetables, you know, cook youknow, how about cooking more
than one vegetable for dinner,one green vegetable, make a few
vegetables for dinner, fill upon vegetables, have a little bit
of meat have a little bit of, ofgrains, if you're if you're
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eating grains, you know, so forme, it just it took so much off
of my beating myself up, youknow, with with diet and and and
now just it made my life easier,better, I move better. I feel
better, as as I've seen in somany other people as well.
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Wow, that's very encouraging.And it's so nice that something
can actually be easy. Because alot of things just feel like oh
my god, Mount Everest to climband flip flops. So this is
really nice that you actuallyoffer something as simple
solution to feel dramaticallybetter in a short amount of
time. Who can offer that? Thankyou very much for that. Now how
(27:19):
can people find out more aboutyou and your work and your book
and all the good stuff?
My website probably best iswww.dr dana Cohen calm Dr. Dana
Cohen calm. The book is calledquench it's found everywhere
books are sold Amazon. It's notin French. It's in six other
(27:40):
languages, though it's inJapanese and German and Italian
and Spanish and Portuguese.Well, that's a problem. I know
we got to get through to get tothis point.
Sure. Okay, so does there anylast advice that you would like
to give people that you know,still feel like maybe I don't
(28:01):
know about that hydration? Whatdo you think like they could
just get started with Okay,
I'm gonna give to two quickthings. First thing every
morning, wake up, drink eight to16 ounces of water with a little
squeeze of lemon and a pinch ofsea salt. Start there. And then
the second thing is and this isa little bit of a bigger ask but
(28:23):
but not so much because it's itis a it's a craze, to have one
green smoothie a day. So a greensmoothie is blended vegetables
in a in a blender with water andthen whatever else you want to
put in there meaning what if youwant to put a little fruit for
flavor if you want to put alittle chia seeds you want to
put a lemon and ginger go aheadand do that but not a milkshake.
I'm not talking about yogurt andan other milks and protein
(28:47):
powder. That's a meal. This is agreen smoothie. So try to keep
it light in the sugar drink youknow, but but heavy on green
vegetables like spinach, chard,celery, try doing that if you've
never done that before it willchange your life.
I love green smoothies I have tosay absolutely. And it does keep
(29:08):
you going for a long time. It'sdefinitely great sustenance.
Well, fantastic suggestions. Andthank you so much for coming
back and I'll get you back againbecause this is such great
information. It's so importantand especially now that the
summer is almost over.
It's it's gonna have to be atyour studio in France.
(29:29):
If we can do that at any time.Come over and then we can
translate that book for you.Okay, thank you very much. Take
care.
Bye bye. Well, this
was fantastic. I just gonna stop
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