A closer look
Popular health advice insisting you must drink exactly eight glasses of water a day has absolutely no basis in modern scientific research and was likely pulled completely out of thin air. Your body naturally extracts hydration from the food you eat, meaning you get plenty of water from fruits, vegetables, and even the coffee you guiltily consume every morning. Despite possessing incredibly sensitive thirst receptors perfectly calibrated over millennia to tell you exactly when you need liquids, modern adults still carry around gigantic motivational water jugs like heavily burdened pack mules. We have replaced intuitive biology with the constant, stressful obligation of measuring our daily intake in ounces just to feel productive
