Professor Courtney Kipps, an Honorary Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine and co-lead of UCL’s MSc programme in Sports Medicine, Exercise & Health at ISEH, was recently featured in an BBC article examining whether we may be drinking more water than necessary. Common advice to “drink more water” is often suggested for issues like fatigue or dry skin. However, experts now suggest that our habit of carrying reusable water bottles everywhere might be leading us to overhydrate.
Professor Courtney Kipps shared:
“If you listen to your body, it’ll tell you when it’s thirsty. The myth that it’s too late when you’re thirsty is based on the supposition that thirst is an imperfect marker of a fluid deficit, but why should everything else in the body be perfect and thirst be imperfect? It’s worked very well for thousands of years of human evolution.”
