Drink less fluid - another theory

Good post thatbags.I find the theory very odd that we often don't recognise thirst but confuse it with hunger ie we think we are hungry but actually we are thirsty. Weird !

As if we needed to invent things to worry about.

If thirst hadn't told us for millennia when we needed to drink, we African (hot tropical) mammals who need to keep our body fluids in homeostasis, would never have survived to be talking about it now. We feel thirst because we need to drink. We drink because we're thirsty. It's a survival mechanism. The idea really is that simple. Why complicate it with bullshit?

I did feel really good when I followed a regime of drinking plenty of water [albeit not litres of the stuff].

It has been fashionable to tell us to drink two to three litres of water a day, which I don't think is necessary. Apparently tea and coffee act as diuretics so didn't count towards the fluid intake.
Now 'they' say that that is not correct, tea and coffee count and so does our food, much of which contains a lot of water.

I don't think thirst necessarily tells us how much we should be drinking, and I know I probably don't drink enough water. However, too much water can flush too many essential minerals out of the system imo.

Must go and make a cuppa (decaffeinated in the evening)!