Neighbors Uncle Wang and Aunt Lin are a couple, have been married for nearly 40 years, have always had a good relationship, although in daily life also had awkward troubles, but soon the two reconciled, almost no big quarrels and cold war situations. However, recently, the two people have been making a very unpleasant fight because of a small matter, and they have been cold for several days.
It turns out that Uncle Wang and his wife are both health experts, since he saw on a popular science website that getting up in the morning and drinking water on an empty stomach is good for the body, which can replenish the water consumed by the body at night, after which he insists on drinking a glass of water every morning after getting up, but Aunt Lin is very incomprehensible, because she has also seen experts in magazines before that drinking water immediately after getting up in the morning, because he has not brushed his teeth, it is equivalent to drinking bacteria into the stomach. This behavior is even more harmful than skipping breakfast.
The two expressed their opinions, both felt that their approach was right, and no one was convinced, so the stalemate continued. But then again, is drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning good or bad for the body? Today, the doctor will reveal the secret to you.
Drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning is more harmful than skipping breakfast?
In daily life, many people have the habit of getting up early and drinking water on an empty stomach, which they consider to be a healthy habit. But on the Internet, there has been a saying that "getting up early and drinking water on an empty stomach is more harmful than skipping breakfast", what is going on?
Many people feel that because people after a night's sleep, due to the role of fermentation, the mouth produces many bacteria, so after getting up in the morning, people's breath is usually relatively large, and even obvious bad breath will appear, and the inside of the mouth also feels sticky.
In this case, if you drink water without brushing your teeth, then a large number of bacteria remaining in the mouth will be brought into the stomach with swallowing movement, and over time, the stomach may be damaged by bacterial erosion.
This seems to be a very reasonable explanation, but in fact they ignore one point, that is, our stomach is not as fragile as imagined, it has a very powerful function, the stomach acid it secretes can not only help us digest food, but also help us corrode some "foreign bodies", including bacteria and other microorganisms brought in by the mouth, and then excreted through metabolism.
Therefore, this statement is simply superfluous, and drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning will not cause harm to our stomach. On the contrary, drinking water on an early fasting will bring unexpected benefits to the body.
The first is to replenish water. After a night's sleep, the water in the body will lose part of it in the form of sweat, breathing and urine, and cells and tissues and organs will also be in a state of lack of water, so this time is the most in need of water, it can "wake up" cells, increase their activity, is good for the human body.
There is also after a night's sleep, due to the body's metabolism, the body will produce a large number of metabolic wastes, and getting up early on an empty stomach to drink water can stimulate the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, promote blood circulation, accelerate metabolic wastes to be excreted in time.
According to the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents", a healthy adult can drink a glass of water on an empty stomach after waking up in the morning, which helps to reduce blood viscosity and promote blood circulation, which in turn plays a role in alleviating or preventing cardiovascular disease, and also helps reduce the recurrence rate of these diseases and the risk of related complications.
As the saying goes, water is the source of life, a person who does not eat for 3 days will not have much impact on the body, but if you do not drink water for 3 days, then the body may be in a state of dehydration. <红楼梦>Zhongjia Baoyu said that women are made of water.
Although this sentence has an exaggerated component, it reveals from the side that water occupies an important weight in the human body. In fact, the water in the body accounts for about 60% of the total amount of the whole body, and it can also be said that most of the human body is composed of water, so it is crucial for the human body.
Although water is important to the human body, it is not anything that can be drunk, and there are many cases where water cannot be drunk.
Doctor's advice: These 3 kinds of water, it is not recommended to drink it on an empty stomach
Through the above we know that drinking water on an early fasting is good for the body, but the choice of water is also very important, the following 3 kinds of water can not be drunk on an empty stomach, otherwise it will bring great harm to the body.
Drink water
Many people love beverage products for ten minutes, its unique taste is always unforgettable, especially those young friends, in daily life especially like to use drinks instead of water, but in fact, this drink who can satisfy your temporary "appetite", but it is very harmful to the body.
Under normal circumstances, no matter what kind of beverage, it will contain some flavors, pigments, sweeteners, preservatives, food additives, etc., and even some drinks directly contain some substances that affect the spirit, such as caffeine, γ-hydroxybutyric acid, etc.
If fasting and drinking, these substances will affect the function of the gastrointestinal tract after entering the human body, and over time may cause stomach cramps and other discomfort. At the same time, when it is metabolized by the kidneys, it will increase the burden on our kidneys, destroy the structure of the kidneys, affect its function, and the final result may cause kidney damage.
Overnight tea
There are many friends who like to drink tea, especially those stronger tea, they feel that the taste is better and more flavorful, so they will run for a long time when making tea at ordinary times, and even like to drink overnight tea. As everyone knows, their behavior is actually "chronic suicide". This is because after the precipitation of tea overnight, first of all, the vitamins and other nutrients in it have long been lost, and secondly, a lot of alkaline substances will accumulate in the tea, and the tea will also become bad and deteriorate.
And when we just get up in the morning, the body has just been "woken up", most of the body tissues are still in a state of just "turned on", its function is not perfect, at this time drinking overnight tea will increase the burden of the body, harm our stomach and kidneys.
Water with too high or low temperature
Nowadays, young people like to drink cold water, especially in the hot summer, drink a glass of ice water, both quench thirst and dispel heat, not to mention how refreshing the taste is. Although drinking ice water makes people feel cool for a while, the body has to pay a great price for it, especially when suddenly drinking a lot of ice water on an empty stomach in the morning, in fact, this is a very stupid practice.
When the stomach is in an empty state and suddenly drinks a large amount of ice water, the stomach will spasm due to the sudden drop in temperature, followed by severe stomach pain, abdominal pain, and in severe cases, nausea, vomiting and other uncomfortable symptoms. Over time, it is prone to various gastrointestinal diseases.
Fasting is not recommended to drink ice water, of course, can not drink too high temperature water, especially just boiled temperature above 90 ° water, drinking piping hot water will directly damage the esophageal mucosa and gastric mucosa, if you drink once or twice, due to the body's self-repair effect, even if the mucosa is damaged will be automatically repaired, but if you often drink piping hot water, then the esophagus and gastric mucosa will continue to be damaged, and over time will leave permanent damage. Especially in the esophagus, studies have shown that if you regularly drink piping hot food, it will greatly increase the chance of esophageal cancer.
Read more: Why can't you drink seawater? What are the consequences after drinking it?
I believe that many people know such a common sense, that is, seawater cannot be drunk, but few people know the reason for this, let alone what the consequences will be once drinking seawater. Let's talk about it by the doctor.
The reason why people are thirsty and will not drink seawater is because seawater contains a certain amount of salt, although its concentration is only about 3.5%, but this value has far exceeded the salt concentration in the human body, so if you drink seawater, not only will not quench thirst, but will make you feel more thirsty. More seriously, the kidneys will bear a heavier burden in order to metabolize these excess salts, which may cause damage to the kidneys.
There is also a lot of impurities in seawater, which contains many minerals far beyond the range that the human body can bear, if you drink into the body, then it will make some trace elements exceed the standard, may cause serious imbalance of body functions, and may lead to poisoning.
Resources:
[1] "Investigation and Analysis of Knowledge, Belief, and Practice of Healthy Drinking Water and Urination", Li Feng, Bai Shuang, et al., No. 003, 2021