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Transcript of “Bulletproof Radio Q&A - #192”
Bulletproof Radio podcast #192
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Dave: Hey, everyone. It's Dave Asprey with Bulletproof Radio. Today's cool fact of the day is that shark skin is actually made up of tiny teeth-‐like scales called dermal denticles. That's actually a tongue-‐twister.
They help reduce friction and they make it easier for sharks to swim, and that's why when you rub sharks one way they're really rough and the other way they're really smooth. All of my attempts to grow shark skin on my arms, because that would be cool, have failed to-‐date, so I apologize, I don't have an answer for how you could have dermal denticles, but if we ever get one, it's going to be cool.
Today's episode is part two of our Q&A. I'm still here at JJ Virgin's Mindshare event with my buddy, Zak, and we are going to be going through your questions. You can get your questions submitted and answered by doing it on Twitter, our Facebook page, or by going to the bottom of the blog posts that contain the podcasts on bulletproofexec.com and just entering your question in the field there.
I love it when you ask these questions. It really helps me know what you care about, and I'll do my best to answer all of them, or at least the best ones.
Zak: All right. Picking up where we left off, we got a lot of questions about water, and so the best one we chose is from Philip, and it's kind of like four or five questions in one, so do your best. Tap water versus water filters? How much water should you drink per day? Do you really need to drink your body weight in ounces? The effects of fluoride, pH, and alkalinity? This guy's asking specifically about the Kangen water systems as well.
Dave: Kegel water? All right. We'll explain, or I guess, I'll explain all that stuff, but we're going to have to maybe go through those one at a time, because I think I'll probably forget one of those in the middle. The first one is, how much water should you drink? All right. There's this, an amazing biohacker signal that a lot of people miss, and it's called thirst, and it's the most important thing you can listen to.
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Now, you might need a little bit more water than your thirst would dictate, but probably not that much more. There isn't great evidence that says over-‐drinking water is good for you. In fact, it says there's good evidence that says it washes electrolytes and it's not that good for you.
If you just habitually become used to being thirsty and you don't really recognize the signal, you might want to drink more water. It's also interesting that the more toxins that you're exposed to, the more water you're likely to want to drink. One of the biggest signals of your hydration status and your toxin exposure is your pee. Since we're talking about water in, we've got to talk about water out.
When you, say, drink a bad cup of coffee or you drink beer, we know these are things that make you pee. The difference between drinking a cup of lab-‐tested coffee, which doesn't have a potent toxin that irritates the bladder and kidneys, this would be ochratoxin A, one of the more common micro-‐toxins in coffee. When you drink beer, which also has OTA, or coffee that has OTA, the body goes, "Oh my God. Get this out of here," and it makes you have to pee urgently, and then you go pee and there's not that much pee.
If you had to go to the bathroom and you went and you peed for two minutes and you're peeing half a gallon, you actually had to pee. When you go and you have a small amount of urine and an urgent need to go, either you an irritation of the urethra, which can be like an infection or something else, or likely, you have something that your body is trying to dilute and get rid of.
To prevent cancer and damage to the kidneys and to the bladder, your body will gladly pull water out of plasma and put it in to dilute these nasty chemicals. You know, the solution to pollution is dilution? That applies in your body as well. This means that if you have just a little bit of pee and it's a very light color, you're dealing with toxins and you need to drink more water anyway. If you're dealing with a normal volume of pee and it's a normal level of yellow that's not super-‐concentrated that's not super dilute, you're doing it right.
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If your pee is super light-‐colored and you have a lot of it, you're actually drinking too much water. The idea of drinking so much water that your pee is always light doesn't make a lot of sense, and if you're going to do that, at least add a little bit of salt to the water, because you're probably