This is how much water you need to drink to keep your heart healthy

Drinking water is great for your health, but how much water do you really need to drink?

If you want to keep your heart in good shape, you should drink at least eight glasses of water every day throughout your life, finds a report presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2021.

The research from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that staying hydrated throughout your life can reduce your risk of heart failure as far ahead as 25 years later.

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Official recommendations on daily fluid intake range from 1.6 to 2.1 litres for women and 2 to 3 litres for men. Sounds easy enough, right? But surveys show that nearly one in two persons do not fulfil their daily adequate intake of water from fluids.

Authors of the NIH study explain that dehydration becomes especially problematic when a lack of fluid intake shoots up one's blood salt levels above a specific threshold (of 142 millimoles per litre.) Their findings linked higher serum sodium concentration in midlife with both heart failure and left ventricular hypertrophy 25 years later.

But the good news is that you can reduce your risk significantly just by drinking enough water!

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