How many glasses of water a day should you drink in the scorching heat to protect your brain?
Summer with its scorching heat is especially overwhelming for the body, but not only.
A daily challenge that affects rhythms and daily life. And the brain is also affected.
The summer months pose a challenge for the brain, as Piero Barbanti, Director of the Health Care Unit, in Rome explains. Plus then there are bad habits.
"The use of alcohol to quench thirst is increasing. But that's not all: using iced tea and iced coffee on purpose
refreshing causes an increase in the unconscious use of psychostimulant substances, equipped among other things with a diuretic effect and they reduce the water present in us. And here is the other widely known point, namely the risk of dehydration.
The only thing that saves you is water. How much do you need? A glass of water every hour!
Only in this way will you give your body and brain what they need.