I’ll bet you didn’t think that day 2 would focus on water, did you? 🙂

Water is so very important for our bodies, but you have to be wise about how you drink it.

Have you ever had so much water to drink that you ended up with a headache? Many fitness gurus will tell you that’s because you are “detoxing”, and sometimes that is true. But what I have found is that drinking that much water, while good for my body, flushes out my electrolytes and minerals at the same time and that’s what is causing my headaches. I know this to be true because one time I experimented and after getting a headache from drinking a ton of water, I squirted some of my natural electrolytes into a shot glass and took a shot of them. Within a few minutes my headache was gone.

Electrolytes and minerals are responsible for regulating muscle contractions and keeping you hydrated. Electrolytes also help balance your pH levels (the measure of acidity and alkalinity), which helps with digestion and all kinds of other things. Minerals like Himalayan, rock and sea salts act through osmosis to pull water and minerals into your cells, resulting in proper cell hydration without the water retention that often occurs from white table salt. (Table salt is a fake, often chemical-filled salt that causes your body to retain fluid. Natural salts like Himalayan and sea salt are actually very good for the body!)

So how does water help boost the immune system?

Staying hydrated helps your body naturally eliminate the bacteria and toxins that cause infection. With the help of water, oxygen and nutrients are distributed throughout the body, and waste material is flushed out from the body. Thus, it helps keep diseases at bay.

There are many kinds of water out there (which sounds so funny to me, haha), but we have personally found reverse osmosis to be the best for our family. (More on this another day.) But reverse osmosis does not retain the minerals so we definitely have to add them back in. (We avoid tap water as much as possible.)

It’s not enough to just drink water, you need to be properly hydrated, and you do this by adding electrolytes/minerals back into your water as you’re drinking it!

I have a few recommendations for healthy electrolytes/minerals that I have found, and in a few weeks I’ll be sharing my own recipe for a homemade electrolyte solution!

Here are a few of my favorite electrolytes/minerals! (These are my affiliate links and I do receive a commission off any orders that use my link. Thank you for supporting my small business!)