Water consumption and your health. READ THIS!

[Kern Dog]

- Drinking one glass of water before going to bed avoids stroke or heart attack.
Why do people need to urinate so much at night time ?

Answer from a respected Cardiac Doctor: Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When you lie down and the lower body (legs and etc) seeks level with the kidneys, it is then that the kidneys remove the water because it is easier. I knew you need your minimum water to help flush the toxins out of your body.

Correct time to drink water... Very Important. From A Cardiac Specialist!

Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body:
2 glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs
1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion
1 glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure
1 glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack

Water at bed time will also help prevent night time leg cramps. Your leg muscles are seeking hydration when they cramp and wake you up with a Charlie Horse.


Most heart attacks occur in the day, generally between 6 A.M. and noon. Having one during the night, When the heart should be most at rest, means that something unusual happened. Somers and his colleagues have been working for a decade to show that sleep apnea is to blame.
This was a cut and paste from another thread that I read elsewhere. I am not a Doctor but I play one on TV.   

[69rtse4spd]

Thanks, have to try that, one glass before bed.

[alfaitalia]

Dare not try it......! I only sleep about 4-5 hours a night as it is (been like that since I was about 25)....I'm not prepared risk any of that by having to get up for a slash! I try not to drink after about 8pm. Unless I'm in the pub of course...

Sure it might help some more normal sleepers though!

[Lighthorseman]

Good info! 

[Dino]

A few comments...

Yep water is good for you, drink plenty of it. Start the day with plenty water and keep sipping throughout. Forget the 64 oz a day crap, just try to not get thirsty throughout your day and keep an eye out for dehydration. Easy to spot when you go pee.

For some people with certain medial conditions (many cardiac ironically) drinking water before bed is actually not a good idea, and for others...still not a good idea. You run more risk of stroke or mi when you have to get up in the middle of the night to pee! Not to mention it screws up your sleep which is about the worst thing you can do.

Nothing wrong with drinking water WHILE you eat. Drinking water half an hour before a meal does exactly squat. Your body prepares itself for digestion long before you even start to eat by the way. Just thinking about food or hunger will get the process started.

Water before a bath lowers your blood pressure? Nope don't think so. Water INCREASES your blood pressure. Most of your blood is water so increasing the volume increases the pressure. BP regulation in our bodies is all due to salt and water. Water adds volume adds pressure.

A hot bath will DECREASE your BP all on its own. When you dunk yourself in hot water, the hypothalamus senses the rise in temp and responds by dilating your blood vessels in an effort to lower the body temp. This is very effective because this way you lose the excess heat through the skin...but you're in hot water so that no longer works.

So guess what happens when you have a bad heart? Your vessels dilate but temp doesn't go down, so your blood pressure drops and the heart responds by starting to pump faster and harder to ensure tissue perfusion throughout the body. This additional strain on the heart is what gets people in trouble.
Ever wonder why so many people fall in the shower or tub? It's not always a slippery floor. People become lightheaded and may even pass out.

If you have muscle cramps/spasms then have your pcp draw a basic cbc. You're probably low on magnesium, and/or potassium, and/or calcium. Easy fixes.

Careful with all these health tips online. You have to weed out a lot of crap to get to the good stuff.

I've been here long enough to see the medical problems that are all too common in this country. People eat and drink crap, get hypertension, diabetes, heart failure. No glass of water will fix that, no diet soda is going to make it better. It's effin' scary in how bad a shape people here are, shockingly bad.

Anyway! Stay hydrated, don't go overboard. Plain water rules, get the gatorade or smart water if you're low on certain electrolytes. If you don't work out for more than an hour at a time, you probably won't have a use for it.

[Q5XX29]

A few comments...

Yep water is good for you, drink plenty of it. Start the day with plenty water and keep sipping throughout. Forget the 64 oz a day crap, just try to not get thirsty throughout your day and keep an eye out for dehydration. Easy to spot when you go pee.

For some people with certain medial conditions (many cardiac ironically) drinking water before bed is actually not a good idea, and for others...still not a good idea. You run more risk of stroke or mi when you have to get up in the middle of the night to pee! Not to mention it screws up your sleep which is about the worst thing you can do.

Nothing wrong with drinking water WHILE you eat. Drinking water half an hour before a meal does exactly squat. Your body prepares itself for digestion long before you even start to eat by the way. Just thinking about food or hunger will get the process started.

Water before a bath lowers your blood pressure? Nope don't think so. Water INCREASES your blood pressure. Most of your blood is water so increasing the volume increases the pressure. BP regulation in our bodies is all due to salt and water. Water adds volume adds pressure.

A hot bath will DECREASE your BP all on its own. When you dunk yourself in hot water, the hypothalamus senses the rise in temp and responds by dilating your blood vessels in an effort to lower the body temp. This is very effective because this way you lose the excess heat through the skin...but you're in hot water so that no longer works.

So guess what happens when you have a bad heart? Your vessels dilate but temp doesn't go down, so your blood pressure drops and the heart responds by starting to pump faster and harder to ensure tissue perfusion throughout the body. This additional strain on the heart is what gets people in trouble.
Ever wonder why so many people fall in the shower or tub? It's not always a slippery floor. People become lightheaded and may even pass out.

If you have muscle cramps/spasms then have your pcp draw a basic cbc. You're probably low on magnesium, and/or potassium, and/or calcium. Easy fixes.

Careful with all these health tips online. You have to weed out a lot of crap to get to the good stuff.

I've been here long enough to see the medical problems that are all too common in this country. People eat and drink crap, get hypertension, diabetes, heart failure. No glass of water will fix that, no diet soda is going to make it better. It's effin' scary in how bad a shape people here are, shockingly bad.

Anyway! Stay hydrated, don't go overboard. Plain water rules, get the gatorade or smart water if you're low on certain electrolytes. If you don't work out for more than an hour at a time, you probably won't have a use for it.

Nicely done, and you are right on! Except a cbc won't include electrolytes. Maybe you meant cmp (but a bmp/basic metabolic panel would suffice). 

[Dino]

Nicely done, and you are right on! Except a cbc won't include electrolytes. Maybe you meant cmp (but a bmp/basic metabolic panel would suffice). 

My bad, I meant cmp. A bmp most definitely would suffice, but I have a funny feeling a few here would benefit from knowing their alt, ast, and alk phos (albeit the latter not so much). 

[Q5XX29]

Nicely done, and you are right on! Except a cbc won't include electrolytes. Maybe you meant cmp (but a bmp/basic metabolic panel would suffice). 

My bad, I meant cmp. A bmp most definitely would suffice, but I have a funny feeling a few here would benefit from knowing their alt, ast, and alk phos (albeit the latter not so much).