The Importance of Staying Hydrated
Hydration is a topic that finds itself in small talk regularly, but many people frequently overestimate their water intake and underestimate how much water they need for normal levels of hydration. Dehydration can cause a wide array of side effects, which together impact both your mood and mental clarity. Symptoms of dehydration can occur differently depending on the circumstances, but often, we experience them as trouble focusing, short-term and long-term memory recall problems, and general issues with simple cognitive functions. Beyond the general symptoms, some research has suggested that hydration can cause anxiety and depression and reduce our energy levels.
Drinking enough water every day boosts cognitive performance, lowers anxiety, improves sleep, lightens your mood, promotes healthy digestion, and even improves nutrient absorption. Many report drinking more water when it’s nearby and easily accessible and struggling to stay hydrated when drinking water interrupts their day-to-day activities. Monitoring your hydration state throughout the day can be tedious or even impossible when you’re very busy. Magnetic Springs provides individualized water systems and delivery schedules to create an easy path to daily hydration. With regularly delivered purified water or installed bottleless water systems, staying hydrated is effortless.
Staying Hydrated and Staying Focused
We have yet to fully understand why some symptoms, like headaches, occur during dehydration, but we know that there is a direct correlation. Physical symptoms like headaches and light-headedness cause distractions, which reduce our cognitive abilities. Staying focused while experiencing dehydration is difficult, especially if you’re more susceptible to these more common symptoms. Some people experience more extreme symptoms during dehydration and should be more mindful about how much water they take in throughout the day.
When the intake of water declines, people begin to struggle with critical thinking and basic arithmetic, and their general performance slows down. Attention and awareness reduce, and processing information can even take longer. These sluggish symptoms make focusing difficult, cause fatigue, and reduce efficiency. This reduction in mental function can cause issues both in your personal life and at work. Dehydration can even be a safety concern, depending on the workplace and industry you’re in. By incorporating water throughout your entire day and staying hydrated, you promote mental clarity and focus, and by reducing the likelihood of fatigue, you’re able to concentrate and operate at your full capacity.
Effects of Dehydration on Mood
Drinking a sufficient amount of water is just as important as sleep or food. These necessities mold your mood and impact your day. Symptoms like anxiety and agitation can be caused by dehydration even without mental health issues, and together, they can greatly shift your mood. When experiencing dehydration, your mood is likely to be altered, causing a chain reaction of other effects. A negative mood can lead to fatigue, frustration, distraction, and brain fog. By protecting your mental health and mood, you’re more likely to have a better day and find greater success in whatever you’re doing.
The Connection of Mind and Body
Because physical symptoms are caused by dehydration, changes in your mood can become even more sensitive as your body reacts. Symptoms like muscle cramps, headaches, constipation, and exhaustion all have negative effects on mood. These symptoms inflame each other and act as a cycle of discomfort. Reduced cognitive function is also frustrating, and these frustrations lead to irritation and mood imbalance. Mild dehydration has just as severe of an impact during exercise and rest, so even if you’re sitting at a desk or not exerting yourself physically, hydration is still crucial. Staying hydrated reduces stress on your body and your brain.
Hydration and Mental Efficacy
Dehydration impacts your mental and physical well-being, resulting in many imbalances. Without a proper amount of water in your diet, your body isn’t able to balance electrolytes properly, which would otherwise regulate cognitive abilities. Your brain becomes fatigued due to a lack of water, which reduces its efficiency. Mild dehydration is considered a 1.5% loss of water volume in one’s body, which results in a plethora of symptoms, so dehydration happens much more quickly than people realize. Awareness, memory, learning abilities, effective functioning abilities, decision-making, and language skills can all be reduced. This brain fog many people experience in their day-to-day life is often due to a lack of water.
When you intake several glasses of water, rehydration doesn’t take very long to begin. Within a couple of hours of drinking water, your symptoms and body functions will return to normal. By continuing to drink an appropriate amount of water throughout the rest of the day, you should stop these negative side effects and feel completely fine. With water easily accessible, these occurrences of dehydration are less likely to occur. Having water nearby and accessible throughout your day allows you to stay hydrated without it being a constant distraction. Hydration is key to strong mental efficacy and increases your performance in everything that you do.
Magnetic Springs Water Quality
Magnetic Springs is committed to not only offering a customer-first delivery service but is also dedicated to providing high-quality water that is filtered and purified in our local facilities. We have perfected a five-stage process that filters and removes unwanted impurities and results in top-quality water that is rich in essential minerals.
To begin the process, we use micro filters that sift out particles that are commonly found in water supplies. Our next stage uses a set of carbon filters designed to remove impurities or trace contaminants. Then, we use a reverse osmosis filtration system that forces the water through a membrane filter in order to remove sediments like salt, chlorine, and more. We run water through another carbon filter before finally using ozonation to completely rid the water of any trace bacteria that may naturally exist.
Stay Hydrated with Water Delivery
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We don’t require contracts and allow our customers to completely customize their services, the frequency of their delivery, and make adjustments as they see fit. We offer deliveries on standard schedules, or customers can make custom orders. Our customers include offices, workplaces, homes, recreation centers, and more.
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