drink more water...

...that's what one of my son's notes to himself says.  This past weekend we had one of our intensive yoga training sessions, and heard a couple of presentations by a doctor (one about the endocrine system, the other about the digestive system).  I know the guidance to drink 8 glasses of water a day has been out there for a long time.  I remember by next door neighbor placing a pitcher of water on her kitchen counter every day when I was growing up--when she drank the pitcher she knew she'd had 8 glasses.  Then this guidance seemed to be debunked more recently--and people have written about the fact that one can drink too much water and die.  I know I had slacked off from drinking lots of water.

But this doctor kept going back to "not enough water" as the root of many problems.  Such as poor digestion, constipation, hernias; even frequent trips to the bathroom.   She claims that drinking more water will dilute whatever's in the kidneys (or wherever the stuff hangs out--I've already forgotten) and enable the body to hold the water longer.  Anyway, after I'd finished relaying the info to my husband and son, my son said that I had convinced him to drink more water.  And my husband was shocked when I told him one loses more water drinking coffee than before they had the coffee--even though coffee is made with water.  It's the caffeine, apparently, which acts as a diuretic.

I'm feeling thirsty...