thirst occurs when there's a need for an organism such as you to find and consume water as you probably already know without water you die within a few days depending on the exact circumstance i mean if you're in the sahara desert with no protection from the elements you're likely to die a whole lot quicker than you would if you were in other environments but all in all you tend to die within a few days in contrast humans can survive without food for weeks to months at a time again depending on the exact circumstances water is just very very important and you find it in two places in the body you can find it inside of the cells or what we call the intracellular space or you can find it outside of the cells in what we call the extracellular space roughly two-thirds of your total water volume is going to be located in the intracellular space meaning most of your water is going to be in the cells of your brain your heart your lungs your kidneys so on and so forth the remaining one-third will be found outside of your cells so think like your connective tissues now this means depending on the type of dehydration you're experiencing you could actually experience different types of thirst an intracellular thirst or an extracellular thirst let's say that if your cells become dehydrated oftentimes simply drinking water can be enough to replenish them however if you lose blood because blood contains water let's say you get a cut on your arm that could mean that you need water and salt to help regenerate the blood at its correct concentrations this could mean you might need a meal to go with your water to fully quench your thirst although i'm not entirely sure that's the best way to describe it you might be wondering how much water you should be drinking per day that's actually a little more difficult to answer than you may think and that's because it depends on a variety of factors what altitude do you live at believe it or not how old are you are you menstruating do you consume alcohol how physically active are you the list goes on and on and while these are all important questions to ask i personally don't find them necessary to ask in the beginning instead you want to focus on building the habit of drinking water to start off with and then start to dial in the exact amount you need for you as a person based on your individual circumstances but that's true of health and wellness in general if you want to make an overall improvement in your health well first you need to educate yourself as to why it's actually important and a good idea to make that improvement and then you need to build a healthy habit off of that and then you can even start to expand later on down the road it's to me undeniably the best way to go that's why i love the sponsor of today's video nume i've been using noon for a little over a month now and i am head over heels for it and the reason is super simple it's not your run-of-the-mill fitness tracker it's so much more than that i mean yes it does do what those other fitness trackers you've seen do it counts your calories it tracks your steps and your body weight but it does something else on top of that that is so vitally important and i see no one else doing it it educates you on why tracking those things are actually important and it does that through articles and lessons which are super short by the way you can easily get through your daily articles and
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