Facts About Thirst

If you get thirsty and do not have opportunities to drink something, we feel so very thirsty that we forget about everything else. We are all sometimes been thirsty, but can you imagine how it feels someone who for days did not drink water? If a man does not ingested any liquid for three weeks, was sentenced to death.

Simply put, our bodies need to supplement their liquid stocks, although 50 to 60 percent of its weight is water! In fact, the average adult loses throughout the day about 700 g of water by sweating, and excretes about 1.3 liters through urine. On the other hand, regardless of whether or not we drink, we get our water.

Digesting food our organism gets almost 350 g of fluid per day. But the process of losing and taking of liquid is not sufficient for keeping water in an amount that is essential to our body. Thirst is a sign that warns that the body needs more water.

Many believe that thirst is due to dry mouth or dry throat, but that’s not true. This occurs for various reasons, such as nervousness, hard work or simply slow the secretion of salivary glands. Their work can be enhanced (for example by taking lemon juice), but it will not affect the thirst. In other words, the work of the salivary glands may be normal, the stomach, bloodstream and urinary bladder can be filled with water and yet we feel thirst. So someone can drink a few glasses of water (or beer) and still be thirsty, if in the meantime eating salted peanuts.

Did you know; coconut water and also cactus juice quench your thirst better than “regular” water.

The reasons for this phenomenon are that changes the amount of salt in our blood causes thirst. In normal blood there are certain amounts of water and salt. If that relationship changes for the benefit of salt; we feel thirst.

In the brain there is a center for thirst reacting to a certain amount of salts in the blood. If this amount changes, the center responds to the way it sends a message back wall of the pharynx. From there they go into the brain and as a result of these combined feelings thirst occurs.

Whole process (mentioned above) in our body is repeated day after day and so we thirsty again and again.