WaterWise - Your Body Loves Summer Hydration

You've heard me suggest drinking extra water after your session, but do you know why your body needs Hydration?
I may make an extra suggestion during your session that your body (usually the skin) is telling me you’re not hydrated enough?  Keeping hydrated is a major keynote in getting your body to give you it’s best! Especially while venturing into the great outdoors through the summer months.

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Your Body needs regular watering just like the garden and it needs some extra before and during your workouts, outdoor activities and health session time. Here is why…

• Drinking water before you dance, work out (and yes, a massage is considered a work out for your muscles) is going to give your body more umph! Water helps to convert your food into energy and helps your body to absorb the nutrients from the food you eat. It also carries the nutrients and Oxygen to your cells. So more water = more energy!
• Face it, when you workout, you sweat (ok, perspire) … and that means that your body is experiencing water loss which needs to be replaced. Water also helps to keep your body temperature regulated (ie. keeps the red faced flush on the cooler side)

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• If you’re running, hiking or working out hard and fast you are likely breathing hard and fast and if you’re not hydrated you can get that yucky dry mouthed sticky feeling when you breath…but with enough water on board the Oxygen is moistened creating easier breathing.
• As you are moving, reaching, bending and twisting in your activities, or your therapist is doing the bending and twisting of muscle for you, that water already in your system is protecting and cushioning your vital organs AND is helping to cushion your joints…perhaps helping you in your day to day activities to bend your knees a little deeper, tone down the joint noise as you go up stairs, letting your shoulder reach further overhead…

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• ​As you receive an abdominal massage you are doing wonders for your internal organs by giving them (especially the colon) a really good gentle session … water helps the process along by helping to remove the wastes.
• Did you know that your body is comprised of large amounts of water? All of those parts that help you move. The bones that keep your frame upright are 22 % water, those beautiful muscles that move the bones are comprised of 75% water, the blood pulsing through your veins  is 83% water and that thoughtful brain of yours is comprised of 75% water
• And your skin…a whole month of articles could be written about how vital water is to the healthy appearance of your skin, nails and hair!

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…so the question has to be asked…why wouldn’t you drink up and help your whole being get more?
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Do you have some Tricks & Tips you use to keep yourself hydrated? 
Do you only Drink up for certain occasions or do you guzzle all day long?

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