Our brain is made up of 80% water. To avoid dehydration you should to drink adequate amount of water and it is dependent upon the climatic temperature. According to health authorities it recommends 8-ounce glasses which equals to 2 litres per day.

An adult human body consist of 60% of water. According to H.H.Mitchell journal of biological chemistry 158, the lungs are about 83% of water.

Benefits of Drinking Water :

1. Helps in forming saliva and mucus:

Saliva plays an important role in digestion of our food and keeps the mouth, nose and eyes moist. Drinking water also helps to clean our mouth.

2. Water helps to maximize physical performance:

Dehydration reduces the physical performance so water is more important during intense exercise or high heat.

It can be noticeable if you loose 2% of your body’s water content. Dehydration can lead to alteration in temperature, reduced motivation, increased fatigue and makes more difficulty during exercise.

3. Hydration maintains Energy Level And Brain function:

  Our brain function is also dependent on water as it contains 80% of it. Even mild dehydration may impair brain function.

According to study of a young women , water loss of even 1.36% after physical work impaired both and concentration and increased the frequency of headache.

According to study in young men the water loss of 1.59% may tend to harm working memory and increased fatigue and anxiety status.

4. Drinking water Helps In Treatment Of Headaches

In some individuals dehydration may stimulates headache and migraines problem.

According to a study Drinking regular water can relieve headache who are not hydrated also in a study it is found that there is no effect on the frequency of headache but if you drink adequate amount of water it reduces the intensity and duration.

5. Water Helps in Reducing Constipation

22% Indians suffer from constipation, characterised by infrequent bowel movement and face difficulty during stool passing. Dehydration may appears for the risk of constipation in all the age groups.

Drinking plenty of water can reduces your pressure and makes free from constipation.

6. Water may Helps in treatment of kidney stones

If there is any stones present in the urinary system it may cause acute pain. The most commonly stone formed is in kidney.

But drinking lots of water, it can help to get rid of this kidney stones because as higher the fluid inside, the volume of urine passing through the kidney is increased, which dilutes the minerals so that they do not form crystals and lumps.

7. Water Helps In Prevention of Hangovers

After drinking alcohol an hangover is a unpleasant symptoms. Alcohol makes you dehydrate as it a diuretic, it makes you loose more water that you consume .

Thirst, fatigue, headache, dry mouth these are the symptoms of hangover. Although dehydration is not only the cause of hangover.

To reduce hangover, the good way is to drink water in between drinks and also try to take before going to bed.

8. Drinking Lots of Water can Help in loss of weight.

If you drink plenty of water it may help to weight loss. As increasing the water content in the body, then it increases the metabolism rate.

In a study drinking half litre of water may increased the metabolism rate by 24-30% within 1.5 hours.

This shows drinking 2 litre of water may burn 96 calories per day.

In a study who drank half a litre of water before meal lost 44% more weight over a duration of 12 weeks.

So enjoy drinking plenty of water and helps to make you disease free.