While drinking water is essential to living, drinking it in the correct posture leads to healthy living. When it comes to drinking water while standing, science explains why it is harmful and how it affects our body.
We all normally drink water or any beverages while in standing position. Few of us know that drinking water in standing position has many disadvantages. We do exercise daily to keep our body fit and healthy but think for a second if we knew that the drink we are taking is causing problems and diseases in our body just because we are in standing position. How ridiculous is that isn’t it…
It is not just about drinking 8 glasses of water a day to stay healthy and hydrated. It matters in what position you have the water. Do you sit and drink water, or normally have it in passing, while standing?
When you drink your water from a bottle or a glass sitting down, the nutrients reach the brain and boost its activity. It also aids better digestion this way and ensures that you don’t feel bloated after having water.
So we should take it serious now scientist have proved this. So why should not we take it serious. I have listed some disadvantages that are as follows:
When you are standing, your body and tissues are in a state of tension. This leads the water to rapidly flow down your body, causing a disruption in the existing balance of fluids.
Disadvantages of drinking water while standing
1. It Can Cause Arthritis
When you drink water standing, the flow of water gushes down rapidly through your body only to get accumulated in your joints.
2. Splash of Water on Stomach Walls
When you are standing and drinking water, the water flows down and splashes on the stomach walls. In the long run the shock from the rushing water can cause damage to the digestive system. It can also harm your stomach wall and gastrointestinal tract.
3. Your Thirst Does Not Get Quenched
Even if you drink a full glass of water, in the correct posture it will do little to quench your thirst. It is advisable to sit and take small sips of water to quench your thirst truly.
4. Causes Bone Degeneration and Weakness
Due to the wrong posture, while consuming water, your body may experience bone degeneration and weakness.
5. Standing and Drinking Water Triggers Wrong Responses to Your Nervous System
As standing causes a lot of tension in the body and the muscles, your nervous system goes into attention mode, making your body feel out of sync with nature.
6. Does Not Help in Diluting the Acid Levels Present in the Body
Sitting down and taking small sips of water helps in maintaining the acid levels of the body.
7. Cause Ulcer and Heartburn
Drinking water by standing causes ulcers and heartburn
When you drink water in a standing position it ends up splashing the lower half of the oesophagus very hard. This in return can disturb the sphincter, which is the joint between the stomach and oesophagus, and as a result, the oesophagus experiences burning sensation because of the acids in the stomach flowing backwards.
8. Doesn’t dilute the acid level in the body
Drinking water in standing position doesn’t dilute the acid levels in the body
Even Ayurveda mentions it that water must be consumed in slow, small swigs while sitting down. This helps to properly dilute the acid levels in the body by getting combined with the necessary proportion of water.
9. Activate the fight and flight system
Your nerves are tense when you drink water standing
When you drink water standing, a ‘fight and flight system’ is activated which causes nerve tension in the body. But when you sit down and sip water, a parasympathetic system also referred to as the ‘rest and digest system’ comes into the fray, this one helps to calm your senses and ease the process of digestion.
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