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And welcome back to episode 51. 51. This is Paul, I'm your water guy. This is Ethan, I am your audio guy. And we have been doing this for over 50 hours at this point. Can you believe we're at episode 51? It's it's crazy when I think of literally, if you were to just binge our episodes, that's more than two days of binging.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

It's a dis that's kind of nutty. More than two days of listening to our voices. Yeah. Some people's worst nightmare. Every hour on the hour. What was I figured it out. It's funny because when you figure out how much time you spend doing something, sometimes it's real surprising. Like I just hit the one-year anniversary at the gym. And this gym tracks how many visits I've done. Like, tells me exactly how many times I've been there. And I don't go there to play around or talk to people. So it's like I know exactly how long I'm gonna be in there, I know exactly how many visits, and I was able to figure it out, and it was uh like three and a half. No. It was ten days of being in the gym nonstop this year. Like ten. Ten days, like twenty-four hours, like near to gym non-stop. I gotta go back and check my math on that because it sounds like a really long time. I'm pretty sure it was ten days. Over the course of 365 hours. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Yeah, that's what it was like 250 some hours. That's crazy. Yeah, so that's what it was. But I know I was thinking, I was like, all this at the end of the year, and all I have to show for it is a week and a half of being in the gym. But that's uh that's the choice that we pick. I don't know, man. From what you were just telling me, you're you're putting in some work at the gym. I'm trying to turn back the hands of time. Yeah. Sarcopenia. You know what that is, right? No, probably not. No. You wouldn't yet. I didn't know what it was till recently.

unknown 2:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

Apparently, it's like a fancy word for basically old age. Oh. That's that's when you start like going downhill physically, and then that's it. Yeah. So it's like a scientific term. Yeah, it's like something. I gotta for the next episode, I'll pull up like all the details on that one. But if I remember right, it's basically like your cells aren't keeping up anymore. You're starting to degrade. So once you start going down that road, you better fight hard. And that's why I'm fighting so hard.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Yeah. It's uh it's nice. So kind of on that same thing. What's the topic today? The topic of the day, this was one that it sounds so obvious that we've never actually really covered it in detail on its own. Water. Hydration. Hydration. Like that's it. So water is super, super important. So it's so important that, you know, I remember when I was when I was a little boy, we used to talk about the rule of three. And I think we've talked about that at some point, like or mentioned it on an earlier episode. Maybe not. But if we didn't, a reminder to everybody is basically what do you need? Air, water, and food. Yeah. Those are the three things. Now, of course, there's gonna be some trolls out there that are gonna say, wow, you need temperature and sh, you know, housing and protection from UV radiation. Like, um actually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

When it comes down to it, the basics, air, water, and food, those are the things that you need.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Wasn't it like uh it's like you can go three something without this, three minutes without without air. Three minutes without air.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Three days without water and three weeks without food. Exactly right. Yeah, that's the rule of three. So you're already familiar with that one. So just remember when when you're uh when your child goes on a hunger strike, that's when you're like, okay, talk to me tomorrow. And don't worry, because they'll get hungry. It's not a big deal. Until they get into their fourth day, that's when you probably wanna you want to do some negotiating. But uh call them out. It's like when I remember when I was a little kid. There was one time I probably shouldn't share the story, but you know, I'm sure we've all had that moment of I don't want to live here anymore, I just want to leave. Did you ever have that moment? No? You wanted to run away?

SPEAKER_01 5:02

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

Yeah, I'm sure everybody everybody must have at some point.

SPEAKER_01 5:06

Yeah.

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And I remember I was down in my room, I was packing stuff up. My mom comes down in there and she's like, What are you doing? And I said, I'm running away. And she's like, Oh, okay, well, let me help you. So she Oh, she was one of those moms. Yes. Okay. She started packing, she started, well, you're gonna need this. You're probably gonna want one of these. You know, she starts putting it in a bag. By the time it was all packed up, I realized, all right, there's a lot of stuff here, and I probably don't have it that bad, so I ended up staying. But yeah, that was the that was the uh with the reverse psychology type thing where she played along with that. But anyway, back to the rule three, because that was a serious off track. Uh so I'm gonna start it off with a quote, and I got this one from the Mayo Clinic. Hopefully everybody's heard of the Mayo Clinic. Pretty reputable as one of the best out there in terms of medicine. If you have really, really bad situation, ideally, you want to like have a second or third opinion, and if Mayo Clinic is one of those, it's probably a good choice. But they say water acts as a vehicle to carry and dissolved nutrients through the body, but it is not the source of those nutrients, which I love that. I love that quote because it just hits it on the head because you got all these folks that are like, ah, you need to get your minerals from your water. And it's like, no, no, you don't. That's what everything else is for. The water is there for other things, which we are gonna go into detail about. But beautiful quote, but it must make you wonder if water doesn't provide calories, protein, vitamins, uh, or minerals, why is it so doggone essential for life? You know, what makes it so important if it's empty? And to answer that, you gotta really kind of look at how the human body is really comprised. So most of us, adults, range between 50 and 60 percent of our adult body is actually water. So I joke around this with customers, and I'm like, more than half of your body is water. So you want to make sure that what you're putting in is the best that it can possibly be, which only makes sense. You put garbage in, you get garbage out. You put great in, hopefully you'll get some great. And it's it's even more interesting because the 50 to 60 percent is a range, and I'll even throw out there that men and women are typically different. And I'm talking about well, born man, born woman. We'll just leave it at that. Men are roughly 60% water, women are roughly 55% water. Do you know why that might be? Does it have to do with a uh the body mass? Yes, just say it. I know you want to say it. Yeah. Fat. It's about fat. So women, this is how we are bio, this is how we're biologically designed, have more fat. There's a lot of reasons for it. It's not a bad thing, it's a good thing, you know. It's it's about what makes us shapely and beautiful, as well as being able to retain nutrients and and energy reserves and things like that. So women have more fat content as a percentage, which means that their water content is going to be lower than men. And that's it. You can't really argue with the numbers on that, it's a fact. So you kind of I I actually went through some of the bigger organs and pieces of the body just to kind of because I just found it interesting. So I'm gonna go from the the most water content to the least. So up at the top, imagine this blood. 80 to 90 percent water.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Really?

SPEAKER_00 9:12

Yeah. It's it only makes sense though, because it runs everywhere when you bleed, right? So it's gotta be pretty liquidy. That's fair. So 80 to 90 percent of your blood is water. Your kidneys, 80%. They're basically surrounded in liquid all the time, um unless they're not healthy. So 80%. Lungs are around the same, 80 to 83 percent. Um, which that one kind of caught me a little by surprise. I was thinking, I didn't realize that the lungs were that juicy. But yeah, they're definitely juicy. Juicy lungs. Juicy lungs. Um muscle. Love muscle. Oh yeah. Muscle is 75% water. Your brain and your heart, 73%. I thought that the brain was actually higher than that for some reason, but it is pretty dense with a lot of tissue and stuff up in there, so I guess it makes sense. Your skin, only 64%. The largest organ of the human body, and it's only 64%. Bones. I never thought of my bones as having water in them. Just figure bones are bones, right? 20 to 31 percent. And lowest on the list in the entire body, and unfortunately one of the most significant pieces of our body, fat. 10 to 30 percent, depending on what chart you end up looking at or research you end up reading. So, fat does not have an awful lot of water in it, and that explains what I said earlier about the difference between men and women. So that's kind of crazy. But that's how we're all made up, and water is a big piece of every single one of those. So, what does water do? It is a mode of transportation. That's kind of what I said up there from the Mayo Clinic uh quote. And it carries nutrients and oxygen to our cells, and it helps carry the toxins out of them. So it's basically a vehicle that just moves things around. That's what the liquid is. That's our that's its first most, I would say most important, but all of these are pretty darn important. Um temperature regulation, sweating. Obviously, if it's if you're hot, your body's gonna sweat, it's gonna try to to drop your temperature down. So it's super important that uh that you stay hydrated for that purpose. Number three, digestion. Saliva is almost entirely uh water. Other digestive fluids, like bile and things like that, those are uh primarily water-based. So digestion, you you would have a problem with if you were dehydrated or you just had a problem getting enough water. Uh lubrication. Like we say in the water business, lube is your friend. Actually, we say that for much different reasons, but anyway, you usually that's because we're putting together a lot of fittings that have o-rings and seals and things like that, and everybody tries to just ram these things together, and we always say, lube is your friend. So it's half a joke, but it really is your friend. Uh but in your joints, lubrication is uh basically uh the synovial fluid, that stuff that uh basically keeps your joint, your bones from and your cartilage from rubbing against itself. It's like a anti-friction liquid, but basically it's water and special proteins mixed together. So it helps lubricate your joints, keeps us from grinding. It basically keeps your eyes from drying out. And I didn't I didn't I didn't really think about this that deeply before. But every time you blink, you're kind of re-lubricating and wetting your eyeball.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

Right.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

Imagine if you and I'm sure there's people with dry eyes that are might be listening to this that'll say, yeah, it's pretty miserable. But I'm trying to imagine, like, if you didn't lubricate your eye, uh just dragging a dry eyelid across your eyeball. Awful. Yeah, eyes are very sensitive, and if you've ever had anything like scratch one of them, it's just the most uncomfortable, terrible thing ever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

So I had a sharp piece of debris in my eye earlier today. Really? I sat there for a second with like my head down and like just doing this just to let the uh tears well up and then I blinked and just let it all flow. It was awful. What was it?

unknown 13:57

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

It were you inside, outside? Inside. My my eye I did that, my eye stopped hurting, and I just carried on with my day.

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It's weird. You're a trooper. Tears. Yes, they're not just for a breakfast anymore. No, I heard a quote on a movie. Put uh keep your tears in your eyes where they belong. It was a pretty heartless quote. Uh but anyway, that's eyes. In our mouth, obviously, saliva, dry mouth. You know it when you have dry mouth, because that's that's not comfortable. Brutal. Yeah, it's just not fun. Yeah. And then the the other category of lubrication, lungs, stomach, and intestines all have mucus membranes. Well, mucus is made up primarily of water. So you don't have enough water in your mucus, you're gonna have problems with all of those fun things. And then uh let's see, another thing that hydration of water does is chemical reactions. So these are kind of science-y here, but uh there's hydrolysis reactions, which is basically the digestion of food. The water breaks chemical bonds and the carbohydrates, the proteins, and the fats, and turns them into small usable pieces. Um ATP breakdown, uh adenosine triphosphate. Um that when when water breaks that phosphate bond in the ATP for short, it releases energy for cellular work. So basically, in order for us to do everything that we do, um, we have to break the bond into the ATP. So there's a couple of chemical reactions that go in there. Uh when cells join small molecules together to form larger polymers like proteins and DNA, water gets released. It's a byproduct. So they call that dehydration synthesis or condensation reactions. Uh and then there are cellular respiration, uh, well, cellular respiration and metabolism. There's uh this thing called Krebs cycle, where water molecules directly supply oxygen and hydrogen atoms needed to break down the acetyl CoA during energy production in mitochondria. Yeah, that's pretty specific. So we won't say anything else about that. And even though we don't use photosynthesis, photosynthesis like plants do, um, we do use water in a similar way to maintain our cell structure and transport the dissolved nutrients in our blood plasma. So it's just kind of an analogy there. It doesn't mean that we're going to be using the sun to generate energy. So don't don't jump all over me for that one. So that's all of the what does it do? You know, what is it, what's its purpose? Um, I started learning a lot when we were doing our research on this thing. There things that I had to ponder to really kind of take it all in. And where does it actually go? That was a great, it was like a great little road to go down, a great path. Um, you drink a glass of water, you're sitting there, you go, oh, where does it go? Well, it's pretty simple. You put it in your mouth and you pee it out.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

But it's more complicated than that, as you might imagine. Let's go through the journey. Starts off with the well, I'll do the overview. Goes into your mouth, goes down into your stomach, goes into your small intestine, goes into your bloodstream, gets into the tissues, gets to the kidneys, and it comes out in the form of urine. That's the quick and dirty. So when you first put it in your mouth, you're you're gonna basically, anything you're chewing, um uh you break your food into smaller pieces, and then the saliva, like we talked about before, mixes with the food, it starts using the enzyme to start breaking down the carbohydrates, and then it you basically use the the liquid mush to swallow and push the soft food down your esophagus into the stomach, which is the second part of the trip. So, it goes into the stomach. That's a big muscular sac where it goes, uh it undergoes intense mixing and breakdown. You got gastric juices like acids and enzymes, uh they're in there. They're trying to dissolve this food. Um, there's churning. Uh we are churning our our stomach contents into a thick liquid called chyme. I don't know if I'm pronounced, I've never heard that before. C-H-I-M. C-H-Y-M-E. I'm like, is it chyme or is it chyme? It's probably chyme. Chyme. Hell yeah. It's gotta be chyme. Yeah. Because but for those of you that want to like pronounce it differently, let me know. Uh what's the proper pronunciation of chyme? This chime. I've this whole time, you know, I've never heard that term before. Yeah. We learned so many things when we're preparing for a new and exciting episode. Protein digestion. Uh in the stomach, basically, it starts in the stomach and it slowly releases this liquid uh mixture into the next stage, which is the small intestine. Yeah, the small intestine, even though they call it small, it does an awful lot of stuff. It's the main site for nutrient absorption and final digestion. So once it gets through your small intestine, it's pretty much there's no more digestion that's being done. Uh enzymes and bile from the pancreas and liver flood the small intestine to break down proteins, fats, and carbohydrates into their simplest forms, like glucose, amino acids, fatty acids, stuff, stuff we can use. And then these villi and microvilli, and whenever I saw that, I'm thinking, for some reason milli vanilli. So in the back of my head, I was listening like to the to the song as I'm reading this line. Umivanilli, tiny finger-like projections lining the walls. No, it's not the same thing. Uh, but yes, the microvilli. Maximize your surface area. So that's all those little fingers do, is they just create a whole bunch more surface in a small area, and they kind of grab a hold of uh these nutrients. It's pretty simple actually. And they have from the beginning of the small intestine to the end of the small intestine in order to get all this done and everything else that they don't get a chance to grab and process, gets sent on out the uh the main rear back door. Yep, that's all we'll say about that one. So after it gets digested, now you gotta remember this all the nutrients have been pulled through the intestinal walls. So it's it's it's not like a a big soup, it's like a a liner. And you're you're you're basically pulling all the nutrients through this like single cell wall in many cases. And once they get outside the actual intestine, they enter our circulatory system, which is just kind of bizarre. When you really think about what's going on in our body, it's pretty amazing. So much of like morphing through surfaces. It's just like it's like jumping across cell line, basically skin inside your intestines. The human body is so crazy. It it is, and and that's that was. Exactly what I had come to the realization of is that we are a very finely tuned machine. Intricate, very intricate, and you can't go changing your chemistry. Your body knows what chemistry it wants, and it's not going to let you mess it up. So, but anyway, so now that the nutrients are into the circulatory system, um it's it's basically in contact now with the capillaries. So the capillaries, as you might remember, are the really teeny tiny blood vessels that lead into the main blood vessels. So the capillaries absorb the water-soluble nutrients directly into the blood. So now this now these nutrients are in your blood. And then the next stop is the liver. So your blood goes through the liver and it processes this nutrient-rich blood and it filters out the toxins and and it regulates nutrient distribution. So kind of smooths everything out, sends things out as they need to go, and it catches and filters the bad stuff. So there's that. And then it sends this nutrient-rich blood out to the tissues. The tissues are basically think of the bloodstream to the tissues as the blood, the bloodstream is a highway. Um and it transports, like we talked about at the very beginning of this whole thing, transports the nutrients. There's nutrient uptake as your cells are absorbing the glucose and the amino acids. Um they use that for energy growth and cellular repair, obviously. And metabolism that's going on in our tissues all the time results in cellular waste, like urea carbon dioxide and excess water. Um so if you work out, just basically being alive, you are producing cellular waste. And it's just how how life exists. And then that stuff goes right back into the blood to be cleaned. So that that blood, the blood carrying the cellular waste, arrives at your kidneys, which is the next stop on the line. And that's your body's filtration for the well, the nasty stuff. You've got inside your kidneys, these are pretty fascinating little things, a whole millions, not just a whole bunch, but millions of these little tiny filtering units called nephrons.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

Nephrons.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

Nephrons. It's a cool name.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

Yeah.

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And these nephrons, they're like little filters, they're separating the waste products, the toxins, and the excess water from the blood. So they're they're kind of just as like we said, it's filtering the blood and it's pulling out all the bad stuff, um, and any extra water that you might have. Uh, because it needs this water to complete all of its process in the kidneys. Because if you don't have enough extra water, you might be catching this stuff, but it's not going to go anywhere. It's just kind of going to be like mud, uh, which that's an even bigger problem in the kidneys. Um and then the the reabsorption happens at the same time. Basically, like any clean water and minerals that are still usable get put back into the bloodstream. So it pulls out the bad, leaves the good stuff. And then finally, the kidneys, of course, take the bad stuff, and then they um that is what's known as urine. So the ure the ureters, ureters, what is it, ureters or ureters? I think it's ureters. Anyway, they're the thin tubes that carry the urine from the kidneys down to the bladder. They're the pipes that run down to the collection, the bladder. So I'm just I'm thinking about the pronunciation now. Yeah, the ureters. I think it's ureters. Because, well, it'll make sense in a second. Because the ureters are the thin tubes that basically they they pipe it from the kidneys to the bladder. The bladder is like a bag. It stores your pea until it's full. And then the urethra, that's why I think it's probably ureters. Ureters, yeah, that makes sense. The urethra, that's your your that's your tube that basically allows you to release the urine from the body. Yes, depending on what sex you are, it ends differently, but at the same place. So that's the whole journey right there. That is the whole journey. Water comes in, urine comes out. And in in the process, it helps to make sure that all of your cells work and get what they need, get rid of what they need, and stay hydrated. So kind of crazy. Uh man, that was that was like a huge blast of information. Big science lesson today. A big one, a big one. Um got enough time right before our break here. So I said that water is super important for all of the processes that that your body goes through. What happens when you don't get enough water? Well, mild dehydration? It's not a really big deal, but it's a pretty common thing. Um have you ever experienced thirst? Dry mouth, darker urine, fatigue, headache, dizziness, or reduced physical performance, or difficulty concentrating. Hmm. Could be water. Yeah. Makes sense. So we'll talk about it uh in after the break in more detail. The answer isn't to just guzzle a gallon of water if you have these symptoms. And there's a reason for that, which will leave you at the cliffhanger for that one. But I will say that when I said physic reduced physical performance, I wanted to give some specific examples, low blood pressure, rapid heart rate, decreased strength, or decreased endurance. So this takes us right into story time. So a lot of as you did we talk about the wrestling thing? I'm sure we did. I think we might have gone over it. I think we glossed over it, yeah. So I wrestled in high school, wrestled in college for a few years, and just recently blew my knee out doing a what they called an old timers tournament, but we were all lumped in with everybody over the age of 18. So here I am, over 55, wrestling with somebody that's literally probably still in college.

SPEAKER_01 28:41

Yeah.

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And I was beating him pretty bad pretty quickly, and he got a hold of my leg, and long story short, ended up tearing a whole bunch of tendons. So I'm getting rebuilt here. But I it makes it kind of makes you go back and the whole thing about wrestling. If you've ever known a wrestler or heard about the sport, it's like everybody assumes that it's about cutting weight. Like that's the one thing everybody like there was a movie back in the 80s called uh Vision Quest. You probably never even heard of that one, have you? No. Matthew Modine. Okay. He's in that. I've heard of him. No. He was super young in that movie. But it's a great movie. I if you if you liked Rocky, you'll you'll probably like this thing. It's one of those like um the hero that you're you're rooting for. Yeah. But he's trying to he wants to wrestle this one guy, but the guy is a different weight class than him, so he has to cut weight. Well, each pound of water weighs about eight, or each gallon of water weighs about eight pounds. So wrestlers are famous for putting on, or we used to be, putting on trash bags and rubber jumpsuits and basically getting on the, you know, going running or just being in a super hot room and sweating it out. Because if you sweat out a gallon of water, you just dropped eight pounds. And dehydration is the fastest way to drop your your overall body weight. I mean, heck, you ever weigh yourself at night and then again in the morning? Yep. And you've already dropped like three or four pounds just sleeping. That's just the dehydration from your lungs drying out over, you know, just sleeping. So it's kind of crazy how much water weight you can lose and you really don't even notice it. So wrestlers were, you know, trying to take this to the extreme and drop as much weight as they possibly can to be into a much smaller weight class so that they hopefully will be a you know a huge dominating force. Um I'm gonna finish that story when we come back because back when I was in high school, I ran into and did some training with a gold medal Olympian. And he gave me a whole new outlook when I was young enough that it completely changed my trajectory on how I look at wrestling. So we're gonna take a break and come back and we're gonna talk about Ed Bannock. If you want to look that one up in the meantime. If you're looking for fun topics like land-filled juice and the history of coffee mixed in with things like halo acetic acids and the forever chemical PFOS, you've come to the right place. Check out Water Guy Unfiltered and learn the raw truth about water stuff, where it's educational and informative with a shot of humor just to keep it fun. We started as a weekly radio show, and now we're podcasted everywhere. Join us. So to tell the rest of the story, I gotta tell you who Ed Bannock is. So Ed, Ed and his brother Lou, fraternal twins. Cool story, actually. Um fraternal twins born in 1960, Polish and German parents. Uh tragic, actually. Uh the they had a house fire when they were really little, and the father just disappeared. So the wife, the the mom, apparently kind of had a mental breakdown, put them up for adoption. Oh wow, and they went into a foster home. So the foster home, I mean it's a great ending to the story, um, but the the foster home took them and they moved to New York, and let's fast forward, they got into wrestling. Both of them, him and his his same-age brother. The Lou was a little bigger. They weren't identical, but you know, that's the fraternal thing. And uh both of these guys went ended up going to University of Iowa, which was one of the powerhouses for wrestling, if not the powerhouse. It had, if anybody ever remember the name Dan Gable, he was the coach there. So let's just say that like he's the Michael Jordan of of wrestling. Okay. Like he has shoes, like the Dan Gable shoes. Like that, like you people wear Jordans, like you wore Dan Gables. Like he was that in like that much of a of a just a great great coach, just incredible dude. But he coached both of these brothers. Fast forward summer of 1984, both of them went to the Olympics, and Lou was in the weight class, the highest one, and Ed was in the one right below it. And these guys were monsters. Um if you when you meet them, if you ever were to meet them, you could just tell that you didn't want to mess with these dudes. They had like their shoulders, their traps, they were just huge. And it wasn't because they they never took anything, it was just they were just ridiculous strong and fast. So Ed's nickname, like in high school, was the horse, because basically I was like you're wrestling against a horse at that point. So 84 Olympics, both of them ended up winning gold. Wow. The odds of the two brothers, you know, your your fraternal twin winning gold and you win gold. So they were like the idol of every high school wrestler in the 80s. Which, of course, given away my age, I was in high school 84 through 88. So I would go to the intense, and then he went over to the Iowa State to do coaching. And I went over to the intensive camps uh in the summertime to try to refine my wrestling skills. So I got a chance to actually meet and roll around with this guy, which is pretty cool in itself. And he kind of took me under his wing and he was like, Look, I'm gonna tell you something. He's like, There's a lot of talk about cutting weight, and he's like, I'm gonna tell you, you don't need to cut weight, don't get fat, you don't need to cut weight, get stronger at the weight you're at and dominate. And he's like, if anybody tells you you have to cut weight, you remind them that the person that's literally the best in the world told you differently. And if they have a problem with that, they can get in the ring. So that was one of those cool stories that he changed my whole trajectory. And I never got fat, so I actually got like they did hydrostatic testing um to to they wanted to make sure in my high school, thank goodness, I'm I'm I wish they would do this everywhere if they don't already, but they would measure your fat content. And my actual hydrostatic fat in uh in high school senior year was 3.4, which is like ridiculous low. Yeah. So coach was like, well, yeah, you obviously can't cut weight. So that was off the table, but I never planned on cutting weight anyway, right? Because of what Ed had told me. So don't cut weight. If you're if you have wrestler kids and you're listening to this, you don't need to cut weight, tell the Ed Bannock story. I met him, and funny, even funnier story. I was working, I was working for Home Depot, corporate, years later. This was uh now we're going back like 16, 17 years. No, wait, longer than that. This was back in 2010. So yeah, that would be like 16 years. Um I was working up in Milwaukee, just random, right? I ended up going to this customer's house because I had every once in a while we had to like go and and uh you know do some check-ins on on certain projects. And I remember I saw this name and I'm like, can't be the same Bannock. So I end up showing walking up to this this customer's house, knock on the door, this guy answers the door. And I'd never met Lou Bannock before. Lou Bannock answered the door. I'm looking at him, I'm like, oh my gosh, I've got you on my poster. So it was pretty funny. He actually I went back there later and he actually signed my uh my poster from high school, if you can believe that.

SPEAKER_01 37:47

That's awesome.

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So I met both of the both of the gold medalists at some point in my life, and that last one being completely random just blew my mind. I'm like, what are the odds that I'm gonna, you know, be rolling around and and be kind of mentored by by Ed, and then I run into Lou like you know, like 20 years later. It's the craziest thing. Wow. So anyway, good story about Ed. But look look that thing up because uh uh foster parents do great things, they turned out some really good kids there. But uh anyway, that was my dehydration spiel. So if you're a wrestler, don't cut weight, just don't get fat. You don't need to. Uh it's more miserable to try to lose it. So there's certain things that we can do. We have to monitor and maintain our uh our hydration levels. So the body is a very finely tuned machine, and things can happen that can cause us a lot of water loss. Uh exercise, heat, fevers, uh fevers. When was the last time you had a fever, like a really, really terrible fever?

SPEAKER_01 38:56

A couple years ago.

SPEAKER_00 38:57

You have you ever I'm sure you remember, remember when it broke and you were sweating? Oh my gosh, it felt like I literally like the whole bed was soaked, like I just threw a five-gallon bucket of water on that thing. Yep. It was awful. So yeah, you fever will definitely cause you to be dehydrated. Uh vomiting, yeah, no kidding. That's that's a terrible thing to do. Diarrhea, yeah, cyclospora. Yeah. Sounds familiar. Um George, our last uh Uncle George, he I remember him talking about how miserable he was because he was he was you know he was dehydrated. Losing fluids left and right. Yes. Heavy sweating, certain medications, and alcohol consumption. Those are all things that are going to cause you to want to make sure that you stay hydrated. So even mild dehydration, I'm talking about like one to two percent of your body weight in fluid. So I'm 200 pounds. That's two to four pounds. It's kind of what we were talking about. If when I go to bed in the morning, I've usually lost about five pounds overnight. So I'm thirsty in the morning. Yeah. But not ridiculous. Um, but even that can significantly impair your body and your mind. Um, so you gotta keep it up just the overnight dehydration. That's it, yeah. Just how much dehydration you in the bed.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:24

Because remember, your lungs are like 80% water. I think that was the note that I had there. Lungs are 83% water. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 40:32

You know, on that topic, I heard um somewhere that drinking 24 fluid ounces of water like an hour or two before you go to bed can help alleviate the uh the overnight dehydration, even like a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

Yeah, that's a I will tell you, well, this is off topic, but it's not. Drinking water before I go to bed. I used to be, when I wasn't like really, and I want this to sound like I'm one of these these keto people, because I'm definitely not, but I was actually on a lower carb uh regimen for a year when I was kind of cutting and trying to re-establish a different metabolism. And what I found is that when I was consistent when I was down, I was only I was actually like about 70 grams of carbs a day, which is yeah, that's like stupid low. Yeah. And when you're when you don't have a lot of extra carbs, you your body doesn't hold on to water, so you get dehydrated quicker. And that meant that my whole life up until that point, I could sleep through the night. You know, wake up never until I needed to. And once I started dropping down for that that whole year, all of a sudden getting up two, three times a night to pee became normal. And my trainer was like, Yeah, it's because the the carbs hold on to the water, so you don't have the carbs anymore. So you're basically just doing your thing. So it's just going right through you. And I'm like, Well, that makes complete sense based on how I feel. So yeah, uh there is there is that. So yeah, you get up, it's not entirely just losing it to evaporation. Yeah, I do get up and I probably lose more weight. Do you get up and pee in the middle of the night? Not often. But if but you do. Occasionally, yeah. Like once? No.

SPEAKER_01 42:31

Oh, oh, oh, like like how many tons a minute? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, when I do, maybe once.

SPEAKER_00 42:36

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, I'm pretty now that I'm back up on the carbs, I'm probably at like you know 130, 140 right now, which is still low, but it's it's way better, way more fun than living on 70. 70, yeah. 70. When you're counting those, you're like, oh my gosh, this is miserable. But when you got a goal, you gotta you gotta do what you gotta take to get there. But yeah, that so there's there's the sweating, there's the uh just the evaporation out of your lungs, and then there's the bathroom breaks. So all that can do mild dehydration just over the course of one night. Um definitely uh you gotta be conscious of it. The your kidneys, your kidneys, like we talked about before, if they don't have the fluid to help them do their job, you're gonna end up with, I like to say, mud in the kidneys. That's that's that's gonna be no bueno. And there was a uh a little factoid that I dug up that really kind of blew my mind because I'm in the water filtration business, so we're always talking about you know, gallons per minute, stuff like that. Your kidneys in a human process, according to what I see and what I was able to dig up, process about a half a cup of blood every minute. That's crazy to me. That seems like an awful lot. Yeah, thirty cups of blood. An hour. How many cups is in a gallon? Oh, I should have. Oh no. Uh hang on. Damn. Sixteen? How many cups is in a gallon? I think it's sixteen. The answer is sixteen. You win. You win. So yeah. Thirty cups an hour, and there's sixteen in a gallon. So two gallons an hour? That's crazy. That's uh two gallons of blood an hour gets filtered by your kidneys. I like to put things in relatable like quantities. Because a half a cup a minute, it's impressive, but until I really think about it in terms of like gallons per hour and stuff like that. Right, when you put it on a wider scale, it helps you understand a little more. Yeah. So the so basically it's doing uh it's taking out your urea and your toxins. Um and if you drink plenty of water, your your kidneys hold on to less of the extra water, and basically it allows your urine to be more diluted, which is a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 45:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:07

The more diluted is for the most part, it's it's better. Now we'll talk if we have time at the end, about yes, it is possible to have too much water. Like anything, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. Um but basically your kidneys, like I said, we're going through two gallons an hour. Um you're you're gonna be no, do not two gallons an hour. That's uh 30 cups, two gallons a minute. No. Half a cup a minute. Yes, it was I was right, two gallons an hour. Yeah. Confused myself there. That's what happens when I think too late in the in the uh in the evening here. But your kidneys are taking all of that fluid and they're putting 99% of it right back into your bloodstream. So most of that, of course, doesn't come out, otherwise you would be peeing all the time. Yeah, it would be crazy. Um, your your kidneys also adjust minerals like sodium, potassium. Um, they produce urine, blah, blah, blah. Um you don't have to really dig too much into urine color. But if you have dark urine, that's usually not a good thing. No. Um, but there are medications that can make it change color that don't necessarily mean you're having terrible problems. Soin, is that what you said? Yes. Amoxicillin. The uh the antibiotic. I well, no, I'm I'm nodding because I'm on ammoxicillin right now. Oh, really? Yeah, might find this guy. Have you noticed any difference? Well, I don't know. Let's go check. I well, it's funny you say that because I actually I drink so much water anyway that I haven't really noticed the problem. I haven't noticed anything like like I know what you're talking about. You look in there like, oh my gosh, I'm bleeding, but that's that's not at all. It's yeah, it's pretty normal. But it's funny you said the exact medicine, the only medicine that I happen to be on. And he did not know that, folks. So creepy. So when you got here, you've had a couple bathroom breaks already. Maybe in for yeah, in 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 47:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:26

And I asked you, how much did you like drink a whole bunch of water at one time?

unknown 47:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:31

I told you we'd get to this during the during the thing. But have you ever wondered do you why do you sometimes pee five minutes after drinking water, and then other times you barely pee at all? Why does it work like that? Well, it there's your body monitors your hydration level and it monitors it pretty crazy. Um, it gets rid of if you have overhydration, your body gets rid of the extra water right away. It gives you that, like, okay, dump it to the bladder, and then you get that, oh my gosh, I gotta do the pee-pee dance. I gotta get out of here. Time for break. Um, that's over hydration. Then you got dehydration. If you don't have enough water, then your body's gonna hold on to every single drop. So if you are out of that range, you're either gonna not pee or you're gonna pee excessively. Ideally, you should be able to go a decent amount of time and not have to go.

SPEAKER_01 48:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:24

Um, so there are hormones that are in control of our dilution level, so to speak, uh, our hydration level. And this is an antidiuretic hormone called the AE, well, it's called, we call it ADH, and it's made in your brain. It's called vasopressin. So this vasopressin is monitored and it tells your kidneys to either save water or send it to the bladder. Um, if you drink extra water, it like think of it like this: it's gonna drop your ADH levels, making you pee fast. I like to think of it as if you drink extra water, you're gonna dilute your your your what's in your body, and it's gonna want to your your levels aren't gonna be up where they want it to be, so it's gonna want you to dump the extra water so that you can get the level back where it needs to be. If you have a high um ADH, then uh like from stress, heat, or low water intake, then it's gonna reduce your urine output. So it's just hormones are what's controlling our hydration levels very accurately. The kidney function, um, really it's it's it does its its filtration rate, which we just talked about, and I got all tongue-tied for a second there. But yeah, the kidney is is kind of like the uh it decides when to dump water, when to keep water based on the hormones. Um there's things that you can do that can mess this stuff up, like sodium. Eating salty food makes your body hold on to water to keep your salt balance uh steady and healthy. And if you don't have enough sodium, your body's gonna let go of extra water so that you can uh kind of bring that up and use the little bit of sodium that you do have. So there's all sorts of checks and balances that your body goes through. Um I think I was asking you if you may have been a victim of the bolus effect. That is gulping a large glass of water fast. It stretches your stomach and it triggers a quick fluid response.

SPEAKER_02 50:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 50:38

Okay, all right. So I'm famous for this. I don't have time to sit there and sip. So I'll grab, I'm looking at it right now. This thing holds 32 ounces, and I'll fill that darn thing to the top and I'll just pound it. And then, you know, an hour later I'll grab another one. But in the meantime, I'll probably have had to pee twice. Yeah. And that's apparently because of the bolus effect. Um, and I should apologize to anybody who's offended or uh grossed out by today's content. It is a lot of pee we're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 51:09

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:09

So it's a little late now to mention that, but yeah, there's a lot more pee coming. Oh, so the bolus effect could be an actual reason why when you drink a whole bunch of water too quickly, you're gonna get uh you're gonna have to go to the bathroom. Sipping small amounts over hours lets your body absorb the water smoothly without those sudden trips. Even though you're gonna have probably the same quantity of water, you probably are going to use it a lot better. Um and this is gonna answer a lot of questions for some folks. Uh caffeine and alcohol. I've always heard, you know, caffeine and it's diuretic, you know, don't have coffee, it's gonna dehydrate you. And the same thing about alcohol. Yeah. These drinks, the the reason behind it is that these drinks block the ADH, the vasopressin, and uh they make you pee faster. So that's how they end up causing you to be dehydrated. It's not the alcohol, it's the blocking of the signal on how much to hold on to. So your body just starts dumping. It's crazy. That makes sense. Mm-hmm. A little bit of a little bit of an explanation there. Uh let's see here. I have some cool. Well, hydration myths. If you're thirsty, you're already dangerously dehydrated. You ever heard that one? Yes. Oh, yeah. If you're thirsty, it's too late. Yes, I have. Says right here, not necessarily. Thirst is an important physiological signal, but it isn't perfect. Doesn't necessarily mean you're dangerously dehydrated. Myth number two, coffee doesn't count towards hydration. Well, it actually does. Uh, caffeinated beverages can contribute to fluid intake because it is liquid. Uh uh, caffeine does have the mild diuretic effect, but typical consumption doesn't simply cancel it out. And then myth number three, you need eight glasses every day. I'm sure you've heard that one. Eight glasses of water. And the answer is no universal number works for everyone. There are so many different factors. You almost have to just kind of be in tune with your body and realize how much you're naturally using up and how much you need to put back in, and be cautious of the things you're doing that are depleting it. Um myth number four clear urine means you're perfectly hydrated. Not necessarily. It can all can can simply mean very dilute urine. Doesn't really you might be overly. Doesn't matter. Um The more water you drink, the healthier you are. Too little is a problem, too much is a problem. You your body's gonna dump the rest of it.

SPEAKER_02 54:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:06

So do you do you. Yeah. You do you. So at the very beginning, the quote that I read off was the last line of it was, it is not the source of the of these nutrients. So everybody in my line of work, I get a lot of people that are like, oh, I need the minerals in my water, and I'm like, oh my gosh, not this again. I'm like, you mean like mercury and arsenic? You want those? And they're like, no. I'm like, it's not how this works. You start with good, clean, pure water, and then you add your stuff in. If you want to dump it in there and mix it, go right ahead. I don't care. It's better to just get it from a well-balanced diet. Um, but electrolytes, I'm sure you've heard of electrolytes. Yeah. So electrolytes like sodium, potassium, chloride, magnesium, and calcium. Those are pretty much the the majority of the important electrolytes. I'm sure there's other ones, um, but these are the most the most important ones. So, sodium, what does it do? It controls fluid levels outside your cells, maintains your blood pressure, and helps nerves and muscles work. Uh potassium controls fluid levels inside your cells, supports a steady heartbeat, and helps muscles contract. Uh chloride, which is interesting because usually if you have salt, it's sodium chloride. So you're getting sodium and you're getting chloride. Uh, chloride works with sodium to balance foods, maintain blood volume, and keep blood pressure normal. Um magnesium. Magnesium, if anybody's ever heard take magnesium before you go to bed, there is some truth to that. It definitely helps you relax. Uh and it says I can attest to it. You you've done it too? I do it currently. Nice. Well, I was doing it and I just like everything, I just kind of got off the wagon. Uh I've I have enough, I'm so tired that I don't really need any more relaxation. But magnesium helps muscles relax, helps muscles relax, supports nerve function, turns food into energy, and builds strong bones. Magnesium is super important. And then there's calcium. Builds strong bones and teeth, helps blood vessels move blood, and it triggers muscle contractions. So those are your do any of those sound like you should be getting that in your water? Probably not, right? Unless you're drinking seawater. I mean, you might if you're drinking seawater, you're gonna get some sodium, some potassium, some chlorides, maybe some magnesium, fish poop, probably some calcium, some poop, yep. Um, but you'll also be dead because your kidneys will fail. So getting it from your water is not the answer. It's much better to get it from, let's see, potassium, great example, bananas, potatoes, and spinach, chloride, table salt, sea salt. Uh we talked about sea salt before, so be careful. Magnesium, seeds, nuts, and dark green vegetables, and calcium, milk, cheese, and yogurt. So yogurt.

SPEAKER_02 57:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:26

I always knew it had calcium in it, but I didn't think about the fact that yogurt is what they consider a uh a high water content food.

SPEAKER_02 57:37

Really?

SPEAKER_00 57:38

So you can stay hydrated and do all of your good stuff drink uh eating yogurt.

SPEAKER_02 57:44

There we go.

SPEAKER_00 57:44

People be like, oh, I haven't had a drink of water all day, but I've had you know a half gallon of yogurt. Funny how that works. So uh yeah. We've really talked about the core functions of electrolytes. Oh, pH balance, that's the other thing that they can do as a whole. Um bicarbonate helps keep your blood at safe, neutral acidity levels. And I don't know, but we deal in pH a lot in water. And I'm like, you know what? What is the pH of blood? Do you know? I don't actually so and I've heard some I've got to be careful. I've heard some people that are talking about like you gotta find out what your blood pH is, and you gotta eat food that's gonna like contribute to your normal or your ideal blood pH. I I'm not gonna make a comment one way or another on that. I'm just gonna say, because I haven't dug into that enough, it's just way beyond the scope of what I do. But the normal pH range is a very tight 7.35 to 7.45, which that's pretty doggone tight. If you are below 7.35, you have a condition called acidosis. If you are above 7.45, you have a condition called alkalosis. So you better be in that tight range no matter what this magical pH diet is telling you. Otherwise, you got you got some bigger problems that are heading your way. Um, more electrolytes isn't always great. Some sports drinks, for example, contain high amounts of added sugar, high sodium, and extra calories just for no reason. So, not always the answer. I know everybody loves the Power Aid and the Gatorades and all that. They've got their place.

SPEAKER_01 59:40

What about my blue Gatorade, Paul?

SPEAKER_00 59:42

My blue zero. Yeah. Uh oh. How much water do we need? I know that we talked about the myth of the eight-ounce, eight glasses, eight eight-ounce glasses a day. It depends on the reason it's a myth, it depends on body size, age, your activity level, uh climate, your diet, if you're uh sick or well, what medications you're on, and my favorite, pregnancy or breastfeeding. That makes sense. So that led I always end up getting sucked into these rabbit holes. What what does a baby, how much liquid does a baby need? Right? So I asked one of our one of my guys, because he is familiar, he has kids, I don't have kids, so I don't know the answer. I'm like, so how much liquid does a kid eat? He said, Well, it's two ounces every two hours. And I'm thinking to myself, oh, there ain't no way I'm gonna do anything 12 times a day, all day long. Right. But apparently that's what you have to do. So the math on that says 27 ounces a day if you really do the research into it for a baby during their first six months. So 27 ounces, that's you know, it's it's a significant amount, but uh, you gotta plan for that extra 27 ounces if you're a a a feeding mother. Yeah, there's that. Um man, we're like right on time. I was gonna get into as a closing story, you know what? We're gonna do it. Do it. We're gonna leave a cliffhanger into the next episode with this one. So my wife loves, she she will not use the stainless steel jugs to like carry her water around like I do. She insists on a squeezy type bottle, plastic. I know. And for some reason she has latched onto this smart water, right? Yep. Because it's big, it's squishy. I don't know what she loves about it. It's got the flip top that you can spray into your mouth and you just squeeze it, and it's you know, that exhilarating feeling of shooting bottled water into your face. Don't get it. But I'm not gonna bash smart water, but what I am going to tell you is if this is an interesting story that part two will be on the next one. So we have some radon. I know we've done tons of episodes on radon. I have a one customer that we did a radon and water system for his house. And we, when we're done with these systems, obviously everybody wants to know, is it working? So I tested, I drew the sample, sent it off to my official lab, and they came back and they said basically it's below 100 parts uh uh picacuries per liter, which is effectively zero, but nobody's ever going to be zero. So I'm like, look, you're you're basically zero, because you were at 5,000 and now you're below 100. Well, somebody else came in and tested his house in the house and sent it over to a local lab. And this local lab came back with like 630. And I'm in the course customer calls me up, he's like, You're telling me basically zero, and he's telling me six hundred and thirty. He's like, they're both, I'm being told pretty low numbers, but I don't know who to believe. And you're telling me zero, but he's telling me it's not zero. So we ended up upgrading him for other reasons to uh to whole house reverse osmosis, which that with the additional carbons and everything else, if there was the possibility of anything kind of sneaking past us, it would have caught it. So put that in. I test again with my lab. Comes back below 100, right? Basically zero. Of course, he goes to this other local lab and he comes back with like 580. And I'm like, what in the hell is going on here? So this guy, he does, he's like, I I know you know what you're doing. It's not that I don't trust you, it's just he consistently is coming up with numbers like in the high 500s, and you're telling me zeros. And so I ended up getting on the phone, not with the local lab, because this local lab is um he's documenting the methods and procedures that he uses and all that, all that good jazz. So I I get on the phone with my lab, and I actually get the director of this lab, this national lab, to call me on his cell phone, and he has me on speaker with the whole board up there. And yeah, and I'm like, look, I need to know because my customer wants this to be zero. He will probably upgrade the system to another one that's even more reliable. But if I do that and I get a zero and this other lab comes back and says it's five or six hundred, I'm it's gonna be a bad situation for all of us. And so we were talking, and and the funny part was this lab is just absolute like leaders in the industry. They they are actually part of the training and the certifications in the country. Oh wow. So this is the real deal. This local lab, this is some dude. Well, I'm I'm not gonna, I can't divulge too many in too many little details right now. So they were like, look, what we think might be going on is that he's just inaccurate and he can't go any lower than five or six hundred. So he honestly might think that that is zero. And he's putting down what his what his equipment is doing. And then I told him the difference in how the samples are collected with with the the good lab and the local lab, and they literally started laughing. They're like, oh my gosh, that's horrible. Yeah, basically, you just put water in a walk in in a jar, a special jar, and just fill it up to the top and bring it over to the pharmacy and he'll pick it up and test it. That is not how you're gonna test for radon.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:51

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:51

That's not you're supposed to do it underwater, and there's a whole bunch of rules on how it's gotta be collected. And he's still coming up with which normally if you click. In a bad way, you're going to have probably a lower number because you're going to lose a lot of the radon. The right way to do it is to capture it. Well, so they the guy said, He's like, I think you could it wouldn't it be funny if you took like a bottle of Aquafina or something and did a sample for him and then see what he comes back with. Well, I took that idea and I actually videotaped the process. I took a bottle of smart water. That's why I started off with the smart water thing, because my wife happened to have a brand spanking new one, and I read off the production date and I cracked it all on video, and I poured it in the sample in each one of the sample cells, the way that as close as you can to collecting it the right way, so that they were literally out of the same bottle within seconds of each other, and they both got sent over to the lab immediately. So I got the results back from the local lab because of course he didn't have to wait for the transport time to get it to the other one. Take a guess how much he's saying smartwater has in it. 850 something. Okay. So, yes. And the cliffhanger is going to be what does my other lab come back with? If they come back with zero, then I absolutely have the smoking gun, the bullet, the nail, and the coffin, everything to be able to prove this guy has no idea what he's doing and he's inaccurate. Because smartwater shouldn't have any radon in it. Right. It's a vapor-distilled product, which means they basically collect steam. How is there any gas left in all that? Right. And then even this fresh production date was still 30 days old. Radon has a 3.8 day half-life, which means 10 half-lifes have already expired. If any of it managed to survive the bottling process. So it's it's theoretically almost impossible. There's like probably like a 0.01% chance that there's any radon in Smartwater. But we'll know for sure, because it caused a little bit of debate in the office today. Because Stacy, who helped me prepare for this one, she's gonna kill me. But she was all fired up thinking it's possible. And I'm like, no, it's not possible. So the two of us, she actually said she was gonna put money on it if she had money to put on this bet. She thinks there might be radon in it. Really? So it's uh it's a bit of a little heated debate here, and we'll know for sure once I get the official sample back. But the the good lab has no idea that I'm actually testing both of them, and I am definitely not telling them that this one's a you know a sample blank, so that they can get influenced in in any way, one way or another. So I want I really want to see what number they come back with. It's probably gonna be like true zero. They're probably gonna be like, I've never seen this before, but there's absolutely zero in it. So on the next episode, in what, three weeks, four weeks, you're gone for three weeks. Yeah. Uh, we will go over the results. So that's the cliffhanger. So if you're with smartwater, don't come yelling at me yet. I'm just telling you what the local lab said, and we're gonna know the other in probably three days, but you'll know in a month. Until then, be safe, stay hydrated, and uh catch you on the other side.