1-Drink #Water - preferably boiled water and that too only when you’re actually thirsty.

Just as warm, cooked foods are preferred to cold, raw ones in #Ayurveda, so, too, is warm, boiled water preferable to cold.

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2-Cold water, good for putting out a physical fire, also diminishes your inner digestive fire.

Boiling helps lighten the quality of the water, making it easier for your body to digest.

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3-Once water has been boiled, you can drink it for the next 24 hours.

Even if the water cools to room temperature, the fact that it has been boiled makes it much easier to digest -

..though warm, boiled water is best if you need elimination support.

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4-We are told that if we wait to drink until we are thirsty, we’ll be dehydrated.

Not surprisingly, the water bottle industry was beginning to boom just as this myth started circulating!

Feeling thirsty isn’t a sign you’re already dehydrated.

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5- #Ayurveda classifies thirst as one of your body’s natural urges,

..akin to the urges of hunger, sneezing, burping, yawning, sleeping and eliminating waste.

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6-Just as you wouldn’t want to try to force yourself to urinate when you don’t feel the urge

... #Ayurveda says you need not force yourself to drink water to avoid feeling thirsty.

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7-Drinking way too much water can cause water intoxication #hyponatremia..

..in which your nerve impulses, kidneys, and brain can get seriously, and sometimes fatally, stressed.

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8-If you’re thirsty, drink boiled water until you’re satisfied.

Then stop. It’s really that simple.

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