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Quench: Beat Fatigue, Drop Weight, and Heal Your Body Through the New Science of Optimum Hydration
304Overview
Chronic headaches, brain fog, fatigue, weight gain, insomnia, gut pain, autoimmune conditions. We may think these and other all-too-common modern maladies are due to gluten intake or too much sugar or too little exercise. But there is another missing piece to the health puzzle: Proper hydration.
Yes, even in this era of Poland Spring many of us are dehydrated due to moisture-lacking diets, artificial environments, medications, and over-dependence on water as our only source of hydration. For this reason, that new diet or exercise plan may fail because our body doesn't have enough moisture to support it.
Quench presents a wellness routine that can reverse all of that, based on breakthrough new science in the field of hydration. Readers will be surprised to learn that drinking too much water can flush out vital nutrients and electrolytes. Here is where "gel water" comes in: the water from plants (like cucumber, berries, aloe), which our bodies are designed to truly absorb right down to the cellular level. In fact, Ms. Bria's work as an anthropologist led her to the realization that desert people stay hydrated almost exclusively from what they eat, including gel plants like cactus.
Based on groundbreaking science from the University of Washington's Pollack Water Lab and other research, Quench offers a five-day jump start plan: hydrating meal plans and the heart of the program, smoothies and elixirs using the most hydrating and nutrient-packed plants. Another unique feature of their approach is micro-movements small, simple movements you can make a few times a day that will move water through your fascia, the connective tissue responsible for hydrating our bodies. You will experience more energy, focus, and better digestion within five days . . . then move onto the lifetime plan for continued improvements, even elimination of symptoms.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780306923357 |
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Publisher: | Hachette Books |
Publication date: | 01/12/2021 |
Pages: | 304 |
Sales rank: | 79,425 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Gina Bria is a cultural anthropologist researching ritual, ritual foods, and food strategies for over twenty-five years. She is Founder and Executive Director of the Hydration Foundation and CEO of HYCHIA, LLC. Trained at Columbia University, she is a former Berlin Fellow with the Social Science Research Council, a National Endowment for the Humanities finalist and has been featured at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She weds ethnographic strategies to the new science on hydration to serve the elderly, school children, athletes and hydrating while traveling. She has coached many of TED speakers on better brain performance. An innovator and inspiring speaker, her work has appeared in such diverse places as the New York Times, Grand Central Station, Harvard University, and the Wissenschaftskollege, Berlin. She is the recipient of the Buckminster Fuller Institute Design Science Award.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction: Hydration: How Can We Do It Better? 1
Chapter 1 The New Science of Water: The Hydration/ Health Connection 23
Chapter 2 Eat Your Water: Food for Optimal Hydration 57
Chapter 3 Move That Water: Fascia and Hydration 81
Chapter 4 How Motion Keeps You Hydrated: The Science of Micromovements 93
Chapter 5 Fat and Hydration: Oil and Water Do Mix 109
Chapter 6 Who Needs Water the Most? Ideal Hydration for High-Need Populations 125
Chapter 7 Antiaging, the Skin, and Beauty 145
Chapter 8 The Quench Plan 163
Chapter 9 The Cup Runneth Over: Recipes for a Lifetime 199
Afterword: You Are a Body of Water 241
Acknowledgments 243
Appendix: Allergy Elimination Diet 247
Resources 259
Notes 267
Index 281
About the Authors 292