Hydration
In This Lab...
Orientation to Hydration
Listen
Introduction
Terminology & Basic Understandings
Body Water & Hydration Facts
Healthy Hydration Habits
Why Guess… When You Can Assess?
Acute Dehydration & Hypohydration
Chronic Dehydration & Hypohydration
Preventing Acute Over Hydration
Pure Water
Hydration Disruptors
Key Takeaways
Hydration Calculation Guide
Electrolyte Rehydration Recipe
Key Habits
Hydration Checklist
Related Labs
Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions
AT A GLANCE
Optimal hydration plays a major role in supporting our function and vitality, and in minimizing our risk to illness, yet it’s more the exception than the rule. Acknowledging this reality, V-Metrics has developed an approach and system that will go a long way to ensuring you are able to achieve ideal hydration on a daily basis. Optimizing hydration is more complex than most understand though and goes beyond simply guessing your needs based on body weight and tracking how many beverages one consumes each day. That said, improving your hydration may well be one of the easiest habits to develop that can have significant impact on your vitality and function. This Lab will familiarize members with the fundamentals of hydration, provide methods for observing and testing individual hydration levels, and illuminate the hydration habits that best enhance function.
HEALTH SCENE INVESTIGATION
- How knowledgeable are you on the physiologic effects of hydration and how under and over-hydration effects your performance?
- How confident are you that you are consistently euhydrated?
- What might be better with better hydration? Might you be one of the many who find their vitality, stamina and body composition improve along with your hydration?
HYPOTHESIS
Your hydration matters to your function, performance, and disease risk management. Exploring this Lab and the Labs it references is very likely to lead you to consistently hydrate better. Improving your hydration will lead you to feel and function better in noticeable and measurable ways. It will also lower your risk to a number of chronic illnesses.