Water

 Our body is made of water, 75-80% of it is water. Most of this water is basically in your muscles, and we use this water throughout the day to function and get around. People don’t drink as much as they should, even though the body requires a lot of water to function properly. We are basically all walking around every day with completely dehydrated bodies.

When we are dehydrated, the quality of the muscles is lowered, and they become “crispy or crunchy.” Usually, as a rule of thumb, we need to drink 1 liter of water for every 50lbs. of body weight. So a 200lb. man needs to drink 4 liters of water every day to be appropriately hydrated.

Stress is also an issue that requires us to drink more water. The more stressed people are, the more junk food people eat, and the more active they are in general, the more our bodies respectively require even more water than other people. More water means better circulation, more fluid that will spread appropriately throughout the body, and finally more oxygen in your body to optimize our breathe. Generally speaking, our breath is short and shallow, so hydrating the body energizes us, creates more clarity in the brain and increases our lung capacity.

Water cleanses the body, and after an ocean beach massage, it’s important to drink a lot of water because all of the toxins are loose and floating around. Hydrating the body in general and even more after a massage helps water soluble toxins to be excreted naturally. It helps flush you out. Water is a necessary medicine provide to us by nature, so DRINK MORE OF IT. EVERY DAY.