A few years ago, I wrote The Water Manual for individuals to understand water and methods of manipulating it. I gave it a quick polish and a slight updating. I also got inspired to add more detail about water and these issues into the new Metabolic Repair Manual (MRM) update. For the most part, this manual looks at the basics of what water balance is in the body and how people manipulate it for good (or bad).
Why Beta?
-I will have it professionally edited with the release of the new updates coming with the new books.
-There might be some slight changes. Anyone who gets it will get the updated and professionally edited version.
-The information is error free, but there might be slight grammatical issues.
Preview Excerpt Of The Water Manual:
I am going to give you a brief overview of what our basic water system and response in the body looks like. Over the course of this manual we are also going to discuss:
1. How water is relevant to the body.
2. The impact of hormones and electrolytes.
3. Potential pitfalls and problems with water during dieting down.
4. Water’s role in visual body composition
5. General methods of people’s manipulation of water including sodium, carb, and water loads. This includes specific health risks.
Your Body And Water
A huge amount of your body is made up of water. Lean muscle tissue and blood contain approximately 80% water. A fat cell contains varying amounts of water. If the fat cell is filled with triglycerides, varying sources state water can read as high as 25% to as low as 8% in a cell. However, if the fat cell empties, it can contain a high percentage of water upon refill. I will discuss this later.
Water helps transport nutrients, oxygen, and waste products in and out of cells. It is necessary for all digestive, absorption, and circulatory functions. Water is needed to regulate the body’s temperature and to provide energy. It also helps moisten skin, regulate hormones, emotions, and maintains normal electrical properties of cells. If your body drops even 2% of its water storage, you start to function worse, feel fatigued, and are more prone to health problems. Simply put, no water in the body equals a lot of distress.
Water In, Water Out
Water is taken into the body mostly by means of liquids and food. The body turns around and loses water through perspiration, urination, and breathing. Since this loss occurs daily you need to replace the water lost on a daily basis.
On the flip side, we output water through a lot of different areas and hang on to it in some places too. For example, all the juices getting secreted by our digestive system (bile, gastric, acid) get reabsorbed or recycled. However, every day we release water through sweat, bowel movements, breathing, and urination.
The bare minimum medical requirement for the average person is 2500ml a day. To be honest, this is rather outdated and studies have shown with increased pollution and toxicity effects in the environment that our water level needs to be raised much higher. Your location of the earth, time of year, training type and more can effect what your minimal requirement is. Because of this, the general “8 glasses a day” or even bodyweight style measurement can’t be used with any true accuracy.
Electrolytes
Electrolytes conduct electricity (positively and negatively charging ions) and are found in body fluid, tissue, and blood. Chloride, calcium, magnesium, bicarbonate, phosphate, sodium, sulfate, and potassium are the principal electrolytes in your body. It is vital for the balance of electrolytes in your body to be maintained because they affect the amount of water in your body, blood pH, muscle action, and other critical processes. For example, the movement of ions and water is part of the process that produces sweat. If you are too low in sodium and chloride, you cannot utilize your ions properly. This will cause you a problem with decreased production of sweat. The level of any electrolyte in the blood can become too high or low easily.
Sodium is the most common electrolyte to become easily unbalanced. Other common electrolytes you may have a problem with are calcium and potassium. Common sources of dietary electrolytes:
- Sodium-Table Salt, Packaged and Process Foods, Condiments
- Potassium-Dried Fruit, Regular Fruits, Meats
- Magnesium-Beans, Peas, Greens, Nuts
- Calcium-Dairy, Greens, Legume
- Phosphorus-Dairy, Eggs, Fish, Nuts
- Chloride-Table Salt, Packaged Foods, Raw Veggies
Water Retention and BalanceOne example of electrolytes being out of balance is water retention or edema. Common thought is that all water retention is cause by an increase in sodium. While too much sodium may be a frequent occurrence in the average individual, it is the lack of balance that is the problem. At any given moment all of those electrolytes and water have to be in the proper ratio in order for you to be functioning at your optimal level. Most simply restrict sodium, and this can have disastrous effects to your health and physical appearance. It is better science to increase other electrolytes and water than utilize extreme restriction.
When it comes to mastering the art of what is behind water retention, I can assure you it’s a mind-numbing subject full of variables. There is no one route to water retention. The only absolute about water retention is — there isn’t one. I have repeatedly worked with people who were loaded down with pounds of ‘permanent’ water weight because of the effects of retention and it can be disheartening and even painful. I assure you, it can be removed, but if you don’t know what you are doing you can become water’s play thing, quickly.
When your fluid balance is a steady in-and-out, you will generally not have signs of deficiency. If there is a problem with your fluid balance, you will receive signals to intake fluid in order to get your body back on track.
How To Get The Water Manual
There are 3 ways:
1. All members of Leighpeele.com will get a download for the next 30-Days only. After that, it will only be available as a bonus with the new release of the updated editions of the Fat Loss Troubleshoot (FLTS) and MRM. I will remove it after 30-days, so get it now along with forum support, cookbooks, and more. You can find out more by going to to this page.
2.For 7-days only, I am going to offer it as a bonus with the FLTS. If you don’t already have the FLTS and have been waiting to get it, you can get the bonus manual sent to you via email with your purchase. You can find more information about the FLTS here.
3. Previous owners of the FLTS package with the Water Manual who signed up on the notification list will get the manual free via email link. If you aren’t on the list or unsubscribed, I have no way of getting it to you.
In short, you can become a member, get the FLTS, or simply check your email.
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