Living Water: How To Stay Hydrated

Do you drink tons of water and still feel dehydrated? Do you urinate frequently or feel like your water goes right through you? Are you someone who struggles with POTS or dysautonomia, and you struggle constant lightheadedness, palpitations, salt cravings, and sweating?

If you answered yes to any of these, you need to bring living water into your life.

While spring water is ideal due to its bioavailable mineral content, most forms are contaminated or polluted and bottled forms can get expensive. We know how contaminated our tap water is, which is why I recommend consuming filtered water (we personally use a reverse osmosis system for all of our drinking water). However, filration methods often strip the water of its mineral content that assists in hydration.

One of the easiest ways to add life back into your water and make it LIVING WATER  is to add some fresh citrus juice like lemon, lime, or grapefruit juice. You can even add fresh herbs like mint and thyme, cucumber slices, ginger, aloe, apples, and even berries to enrich your water and make it alive. You can also let your water sit in the sun for at least 15-30 minutes to bring life back into your water. Adding raw honey can also help to add minerals and phytochemicals to make your water living. (Source: Medical Medium).

Other forms of living water include celery juice, cucumber juice (which is incredibly hydrating!), fruit, greens, and vegetable juices, and coconut water. You can also make a tea with fresh herbs and let it sit for at least 6 hours or overnight for an easy hydrating beverage. Fresh lemon juice or honey can also add an extra boost of hydration to herbal teas.

Other ways to support hydration is to consume plenty of raw fruits and vegetables, reduce or omit salt, reduce or omit caffeine, and to reduce fats and cooked foods. Melons, cucumbers, honeydew, oranges, tangerines, lemons, limes, zucchini, yellow squash, and celery are just a few examples of healing foods that help to combat chronic dehydration.

You can also add a silica supplement to your routine. I love the Living Silica collagen booster liquid supplement (both original and plant-based versions). I add it to my morning lemon water for extra hydration, minerals, and hair/skin/bone/teeth support. Use code SETARE15 for 15% off.

If you have seen or been influenced by the phenomenon of adding sea salt to your water, please know that this is a less than ideal practice to bring into your life. Salt is inherently dehydrating, and even addicting! This practice does not support the adrenals and it can actually pickle your liver. Instead, add some fresh lemon juice to your water.

Our bodies want natural sodium from fresh herbs, raw leafy greens, spirulina, barley grass juice powder, tomatoes, lemons/limes, celery, cucumbers, and coconut water. The sodium from these foods are bonded to trace minerals, which helps them to stay in the bloodstream and keep you hydrated at a cellular level. If you struggle with salt cravings, bring in more of these healing foods. The Medical Medium Spinach Soup is one of the most powerful things you can bring in to help restore your natural sodium levels.

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