Sufficient
daily water intake is vital for virtually every function within our
bodies yet fewer than one in five of us drinks enough. Read on to see
the results of this experiment.
Sarah Smith is a 42 year
old mother of two young kids in the UK. She, like many others, openly
admitted to not drinking the recommended 2 to 3 liters of water daily.
She suffered from poor and sluggish indigestion and regular headaches.
Following consultations with medical professionals for both issues she
decided to take heed of the advice given – in both cases she had been
told that she needed to up her intake of water. She decided to document
and photograph what happened in a self imposed experiment whereby she
would drink 3 liters, just over 5 pints, of water per day, every day for
an entire month and see if she could feel any benefits.
At the outset Sarah took a long hard look at her face noting that “I
am 42, but have to admit I look more like 52 in this picture, which is
shocking. There are dark shadows under and around my eyes, which make me
look exhausted, a profusion of wrinkles and strange reddish blotches,
and my skin lacks any lustre. It looks dead….even my lips look
shrivelled.” She spread the water out during the day aiming to
drink a big jug of water in the morning, another in the afternoon with a
third in the evening.
At the end of the FIRST WEEK she
had already noticed that her bowel function was improved and her urine
was virtually clear as the water was flushing out her previously
dehydrated poorly functioning kidneys. She noticed sudden skin
breakouts, which were a result of the toxins being eliminated from
throughout her body. However her headaches were already gone and her
previous joint stiffness first thing in the morning was vastly improved.
Water is vital for lubricating the joints.
WEEK TWO saw an improvement in her skin tone and general complexion although she noted that her eyes were still wrinkled but said “they look less crepey and shadowy than before”. She
also had a visibly flatter stomach and her smart husband paid her the
ultimate compliment by noting that her cellulite had vanished!
Significantly she had another week headache free.
On to WEEK THREE when Sarah was
happy to find that her eye wrinkles and dark circles had all but
disappeared and her skin was plumper and healthier looking. She noted
that she was actually eating less by this stage as she had fallen into
the common trap of reading signals from her stomach as being hunger
pangs whereas they were actually thirst pangs. Research has shown that
37 per cent of people actually mistake thirst signals for hunger
signals. The plentiful water had now stopped her from continually
falling into that unhealthy trap.
So what about the end of WEEK FOUR? Sarah said “I
genuinely can’t believe the difference in my face. I look like a
different woman. The dark shadows around my eyes have all but
disappeared and the blotches have gone. My skin is almost as dewy as it
was when I was a child. The transformation is nothing short of
remarkable.” She was leaner, fitter and nobody can deny the
astonishing change to her appearance. She changed nothing else in her
daily routine apart from the water intake. Here are the before and after
photographs:
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