> Drink enough water that your pee is clear.
A lot of doctors and health professionals will say that this is bad advice and that it encourages people to obsessively flush electrolytes and minerals out of their bodies.
A lot of doctors and health professionals will say that this is bad advice and that it encourages people to obsessively flush electrolytes and minerals out of their bodies.
Which doctors, specifically?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=too+much+water+electrolytes
These results seem to indicate one has to drink a lot - not just enough for clear pee
But it's not hard to find warnings:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/...
> Drinking water is vital for your health, so make sure you drink enough fluids. But don't overdo it. Thirst and the color of your urine are usually the best indications of how much water you need. If you're not thirsty and your urine is pale yellow, you are likely getting enough water.
You see it all the time - young people drinking eight litres of water over an hour or something stupid like that during arduous physical activity because they think they should 'drink until their pee is clear', then wondering they their legs don't work anymore.
What does that even mean? If your body contained toxins that you needed to « detox », you’d be having a pretty bad day and kidney failure.
Detox is meaningless. It’s not like your body is « polluted » and and you can only clean it by « detoxing ».
Healthy skepticism that this makes a difference in day to day human health may be warranted, but skepticism that the claim is even meaningful in the first place is not. Your body does routinely contain a lot of toxins, and it has mechanisms to clean them out. “Polluted” is not a binary yes/no attribute anywhere else in the world and it hits not binary in your body either; it gets more or less polluted as it excretes less or more waste.
See https://duckduckgo.com/?q=detox+fallacy for more in depth explanations.