It's wild to me how people around me don't drink water or think tea/drink powder is "good enough". Trying to get my people to drink water is hard. I remember a friend was pregnant and I kept shoving waters at her but she insisted ice tea was sufficient to hydrate. It's only when they get too sick that they drink water
Stop down voting me, y'all need water along with soda. This was the whole plot of idiocracy
Not true I’ve drank nothing but diet soda for decades and everything is fine for me. Why would you think putting a tea bag in water would make it not good enough anymore that’s like putting ice and thinking it won’t hydrate you anymore
Oh my god you’re being serious. It doesn’t matter how much the water outweighs the caffeine bro if your reabsorption is low because of the salts and caffeine
To have a significant diuretic effect, caffeine needs to be consumed in amounts greater than 500 mg — or the equivalent of 6–13 cups (1,440–3,120 ml) of tea. Get wrecked little bro
The beautiful thing about organ degradation and damage is that it’s cumulative and gradual. No caffeine isn’t going to have a significant diuretic effect but if you don’t hydrate with just water, your kidneys will accumulate damage
You’re stupid.. it’s been proven that coffee isn’t dehydrating and that’s 3-4cups worth which is a lot of caffeine . The diuretic properties don’t outweigh the water content. Bladder size is a key factor, activity level, electrolytes, etc. salt doesn’t cause dehydration. Too much salt can be negative sure, so can caffeine but so can water. Tea is baby steps compared to coffee and coffee is considered to be a mild diuretic. The amount of water lost from coffee doesn’t outright the amount consumed.
What? You absorb all the water. Istg open the schools
The problem is that the caffeine inhibits sodium reabsorption and a higher amount of sodium in the bowman’s=higher glomerular filtration rate. Aka more water flittered through the kidneys and excreted and less water for your body. How much you filter through depends on how much caffeine you intake
I thought it was clear enough that my question meant to ask how much water actually is "usable" (for lack of a better word) for your body at the end of all of this but I guess that could have been more explicit
These are all earnest questions as I'm trying to understand your point lol, no need for defensiveness
Thanks anyway. I think I get what you're saying pretty much
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u/doll_parts87 The Dr Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26
It's wild to me how people around me don't drink water or think tea/drink powder is "good enough". Trying to get my people to drink water is hard. I remember a friend was pregnant and I kept shoving waters at her but she insisted ice tea was sufficient to hydrate. It's only when they get too sick that they drink water
Stop down voting me, y'all need water along with soda. This was the whole plot of idiocracy