I think with a lot of these health trends, it doesn't take account for the fact that humans are animals.

Animals can't always guarantee they'll get enough water, or enough food, or the right kinds of food. Bodies aren't like a machine that requires specifically calibrated amounts of inputs. Instead if you drink too much you'll pee out more. If you drink too little your pee will be more concentrated so your body retains more liquid. If you get more nutrients than you need, the extra will be eliminated.

It's probably true that with many things (except calories) it's better to get a bit too much rather than too little. Maybe it's true that for water it's better to get nearly the maximum rather than slightly more than the midpoint amount. But, it seems unlikely to me.

Me before drinking lots of water: depressed

Me after drinking lots of water: depressed, but hydrated

if you dont drink the pee, that's your problem, like that you just waste the water, you have to put it back

Pissing is its own reward

See the trick is you gotta combine that with eating more fiber!

Then your will piss more and you will poop better.

• At best, if it as as good as it's said, it helps your liver, kidneys and bladder by getting rid of noxious substances faster and at lower concentration levels.
• As worst, if it has no benefits at all, you piss more often.

Unlike most "health" trends out there "drink more water" will be very good in the mid and long term if it works and only mildy inconvenient if it doesn't, so logically it seems worth trying unless you're in the kind of situation where taking a piss is somehow dangerous.

IMHO, people going for "convenience today" above all else is behind most of the shitty trends in most present day societies, and I don't just mean it in health terms.

I've been preaching this for quite a while now. If I have to post it again, so be it:

You are not drinking more water, the average adult drinks too little, you're drinking enough.

edit: less -> little

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.

Relevant Dr Glaucemflecken

....... Do you guys not enjoy a good piss?

It wouldn't be surprising if a person who was drinking too little water was also getting too little sleep and too little exercise, so they could have multiple sources for the same symptoms.

Unless you are dehydrated drinking more water is of minimal benefit. Unless you're replacing other unhealthy drinks with water, but that's got little to do with the water.

I’ve found that once I increased my salt intake (along with my water intake) my brain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, and pee went away.