HH282: Hydration-Kidney Health & UTIs
I want to talk to you about kidney health and urinary tract infections. Proper hydration supports kidney function by facilitating the elimination of waste products through our urine and therefore reducing the risk of kidney stones and other renal issues.
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Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and Master Practitioner in NLP and Timeline Therapy and a Board Designated Hypnotherapy Teacher Trainer, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa is the winner of the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 60 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
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Transcript
Welcome back to another episode of health hacks as I continue talking to you about the importance of hydration and the benefit of hydration. And I'm actually talking about the 19th and 20th benefit of hydration today. So if you have missed previous episodes, I invite you to go back to Episode 379, which is where I started my series on hydration. So today I want to talk to you about kidney health and urinary tract infections. And with proper hydration this supports kidney function by facilitating the elimination of waste products through our urine and therefore reducing the risk of kidney stones and other renal issues. And it also helps reduce the risk of urinary tract infections by ensuring that the adequate water levels are helping to flush bacteria out of our urinary tract and reduce that risk of infection. And anybody who's had a urinary tract infection knows that it is absolutely no fun at all. So are you hydrating enough, look at the bottom of the screen, drink half your body weight in water every single day. And if it's a hot day, if you're exercising a lot, then you are going to want to increase that. And if you are doing a detox like my community detoxes that I run every quarter, you need to actually then be increasing your water intake to two thirds of your body weight in water on a daily basis to flush all of those toxins through your body. So hydration is absolutely critically important. Are you hydrating enough? You
