The summer is an exciting time to enjoy the outdoors with friends, family, and do lots of fun stuff! But one thing that’s important is to stay hydrated. Doctors have advised many times that we drink at least eight glasses of water per day, however, depending on your body type, weight, and the amount of exercise you do in a given day, the amount could actually be higher.

Regardless, it’s a smart idea to have water handy with you at all times and to drink plenty of it. Below are but a few perks to it.

Physical Performance

Our body is amazing and can do incredible things when we train ourselves and push ourselves. Part of that success actually stems from us drinking water. Water is the essence of life after all and our body needs it in order to operate properly, even when working out. Consider water our fuel. When we are running low we will feel weaker and won’t be able to work as hard.

Lose Weight

You’ve heard of the term water weight, right? It’s essentially weight that lingers in our systems and can actually be flushed out when we drink water. This is why in weight loss programs they recommend you drink a lot of water, often times more than the eight glasses of water per day. Furthermore, water can fill us up as well making us eat less food too.

Mood-Boosting

Water can also affect our mood, as well as some studies, have shown. For a lot of us as we get older, we drink less water which can lead to dehydration. Even a mild dehydration can affect our mood drastically. By drinking water, research has shown that it can make a massive impact on helping with sleep disorders as well as alleviating depression which hampers our moods.

Brainpower Boost

Much like our body, our brain is primarily water as well. As mentioned above, our body needs water desperately in order to function. When you satisfy those needs you can expect your body to work better but also your brain as well.

Prevent Headaches

Headaches are often cues from your body telling you that something is wrong. In many cases, headaches are caused by feelings of dizziness, dehydration or you haven’t gone to the bathroom recently. The dehydration is likely one of the more common ones around the summer and spring seasons so make sure you drink up.

Disease prevention

Surprisingly, drinking water can prevent a lot of serious diseases. A lot of common diseases in the spring and summer stem from overexposure to heat which raises our body temperature. Since water can be cooler (and even drinking warm water causes us to sweat which is a natural cooling system for our body), it can moderate our temperature to stay at a reasonable level.

By drinking water, we can prevent ourselves from getting things like heatstroke, dehydration, and more. Heatstroke is especially dangerous as it can cause you to faint and be in a coma or worse, death. Drinking some glasses of water can help prevent that which gives you all the more reason to drink water.