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7 litters...

...Not that much... 3ish liters spread out over the day is good. Too much water will strip your body of electrolytes and salt.

I recently upped my water intake and can report that my skin and mood feel better. I caffeinate with a strong coffee and 2 cups of tea in the morning, and around 12 I switch to pint glasses of water every 2 hours or so until 6-7 o'clock.

Yea 2.5-3l seems to be the proper amount. Only drawback is having to pee every 30 minutes.

That's an advantage - it means you're not sitting e.g. at a computer monitor and keyboard for too long. Getting up twice an hour (to pee or not) greatly reduces the potential for ergonomic harm that desk jobs - especially computer use -are known for.

Fair :D I walk everywhere anyway so I think I'm good in that regard

Bug == Feature

If you're peeing that much then evidently your body is not using all that water you're consuming. Either it's more than you need, or you're lacking in electrolytes and should increase electrolyte intake alongside the water.

Your body doesn’t use up water turning it in to nothing. You are meant to pee out what isn’t lost to sweat.

Parent is correct. NHS sources say upto 7 times during the day is normal and "Every 3 to 4 hours is considered healthy. Going every 1 to 2 hours usually means you either have an overactive bladder or are drinking too much at once."

Saying every 30 minutes is normal is just the same as advocating drinking too much water

By that logic, if I drank the right amount of water with 100% accuracy for multiple days, I'd only have to pee every few days.

I’m not arguing that 100% of water consumed can be retained, just that peeing every 30 minutes means you have an unnecessarily large surplus. This is simply a truth.

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