Hydration. How serious are you about it?

Im finding the more paleo people are getting(less starches= less H2O retention) and the cleaner people are eating(less sodium= less H2O retention).... the MORE important it is to start going out of ones way to get in those electrolytes... those little Mio electrolyte water additives seem to really help do the trick.

Instead of noticing if Im peeing a lot I tend to try to see if my musculature is staying "full"... oftentimes if we pee too often we are rapidly dehydrating ourselves.

The body is amazing, capable of incredible healing, at any age. But this takes 2 things: The right lifestyle + the right movement = optimal adapting/healing machine.

We have just been unable to properly quantify measurements in terms of lifestyle(sleep, hydration, training, rest) I begin teaching each client I have first by educating them about the problems of poor hydration on the functionality and quality of your body’s tissues (and of course performance). Lifestyle implications on the human being are pathognomic/lagging indications in nature(pain, breaks, viscera failure, etc). ****ty nutrition doesn’t just show up instantly. You can get away with improper sleep for a long time. How can you be sure your nutrition is totally on point?? You cant. It’s like having atrocious running form and saying, I haven’t been gotten patellar tendonitis or blown an achilles yet! You WILL. We are all blessed with a certain genetic inheretance and each structure(organs, tendons, muscles etc) is made to last for literally millions of PROPER movement cycles If you are serious you have to understand and optimally treat what is happening internally as well as externally. Just because you are paleo, doesn’t mean you may not be knocking on the door to type 2 diabetes after a couple of days after getting one bad night’s sleep, or that your cortisol isn’t flipped. (You can test your own blood sugar anytime you know…) You have to me able to observe, control and measure all these things. if you are playing the game, why not treat it seriously and take responsibility for ALL the aspects than you can?

Hydration is just 1 of the primary components... here is a few a couple reasons why

1. tissue quality: We need hydration for the tendons to work well, nerve beds to seat properly, sliding surfaces of the underlying fascia use water to function properly. This all needs to be optimal for good adaptation, recovery, and performance. Junky interstitial tissue leads to tremendous tightness, soreness and weakness which greatly impedes the movement function of the skeleton
2: Nervous system: you are a nervous system made of electrical currents( think schwann cells, oligodendrocytes, myelin sheathing ects)... this is why ELECTROlytes are so important, especially sodium( although magnesium, potassium and many other elements are excellent conductors of electricity. if you just flood your kidneys with some big water bolus and no sodium than the body will just purge it out since it has no means of utilizing it.


I could literally write an entire book going on and on and on... but if you are serious and you realize the effects of hydration on a healthy lifestyle on overall peak performance you will stop making excuses and do what it takes. There is a reason that tour de france athletes treat hydration differently and even MORE seriously than nutrition.

Obviously we have smart individual in ehre who can put together than a stronger, faster recovering, healthy body that can output MORE energy, MORE efficiently, MORE safely, and MORE often is capable of achieving their athletic goals faster . Right?