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Drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning is worse than skipping breakfast? The doctor's answer, take a look

Drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning is worse than skipping breakfast? The doctor's answer, take a look

By wu haoPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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Drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning is worse than skipping breakfast? The doctor's answer, take a look

Water is the source of life, is one of the most important elements for human survival, 70% of the composition of the human body is water, we need to absorb about 1500~1800 ml of water every day, in order to maintain the normal operation of the body functions.

Nowadays many people are very attention to health, have a good habit of drinking a cup of warm water after getting up in the morning, drink a cup of warm water after getting up in the morning can refresh the brain, moisten the bowel, improve constipation.

But is it true that drinking water on empty stomach in the morning is bad for your health and even worse for you than skipping breakfast? Let's take a look.

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What happens to people who don't eat breakfast for a long time?

Can increase the risk of gallstones

Intake of food in the body needs to rely on stomach acid to digest, bile also has the effect of digestion of food, if you do not eat breakfast for a long time, the body's cholesteatine stored in the gallbladder for a long time, the concentration of the gallbladder will become more and more high, and eventually gallstones will be formed.

Can cause damage to the stomach

After eating a meal, the stomach acid in the stomach will digest the food. If you do not eat breakfast for a long time, there is no food in the stomach, stomach acid will cause damage to the gastric mucosa, which will affect the health of the stomach for a long time, and even increase the risk of lung cancer.

Will become fat

Research DISCOVERY, DO NOT EAT BREAKFAST FOR A LONG TIME, NOT ONLY DO NOT GET THE EFFECT THAT REDUCES WEIGHT, CAN LET YOU BECOME FAT INSTEAD, THIS IS BECAUSE DO NOT EAT BREAKFAST CAN LET A PERSON PRODUCE INTENSE HUNGER, YOU CAN EAT SNACK, THERE ARE STILL a LOT OF FAT IN SNACK, INDUCE OBESITY.

If you don't eat breakfast for a long time, the energy in your body will be exhausted and you will feel hungry. Then you will eat more at lunch, which will lead to excessive energy intake, so you will become fatter and fatter, and even cause some complications.

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Drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning is worse than skipping breakfast? The doctor's answer, take a look

After a night of breathing and sweating, the body loses more water, and the blood concentration is relatively high, so in the morning, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are easy to occur.

At this time, drinking a glass of water on an empty stomach can help to dilute the blood and improve it. Because the blood is sticky due to lack of water, it can also lubricate the gut, promote defecation and relieve constipation.

Many people say that drinking water on empty stomach in the morning is bad for your body, most of which is concentrated on the bacteria in your mouth, because the bacteria in your mouth thrive, so drinking water will drink the bacteria into your stomach.

In fact, we do not need to worry about gastric acid has a strong effect of killing bacteria, the bacteria in the mouth into the stomach will soon be killed by gastric acid, especially in the morning fasting state, gastric acid is very sufficient, bacteria are difficult to survive.

Therefore, you can drink water on an empty stomach in the morning. It is recommended that you drink warm boiled water, because warm boiled water is the least stimulating to the body and the most acceptable. If you are worried about bacteria, you can drink water after brushing your teeth.

However, it is recommended that you rinse your mouth before drinking water and then brushing your teeth after breakfast, which can reduce the amount of food residue in your mouth after breakfast and reduce the risk of bacterial growth.

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After getting up in the morning appropriate drink a cup of warm boiled water, what profit can you have?

Dilute the blood

For middle-aged and elderly people, they are most afraid of thrombosis, because thrombosis in the cerebral artery will affect blood flow and lead to stroke. If it affects the retinal vein, it will cause vision loss and great harm to the heart artery.

This is because the blood consistency has increased. Drinking a cup of warm water in the morning can improve blood flow, help thin the blood and prevent clots.

Dilute hydrochloric acid in gastric juice

If the gastric mucosa is injured, although the gastric mucosa can repair itself, but before the repair, patients will appear heartburn, swelling pain symptoms, gastric ulcer patients should pay attention to nourishing the stomach, drinking more warm water is one of the methods of nourishing the stomach, drinking a cup of warm water after morning can help dilute gastric acid, reduce the stimulation of gastric acid.

Nourish intestines

Many people will go to the toilet to defecate after getting up in the morning, but they feel that the intestinal power is insufficient, the lack of a little stool, this is because the lack of water in the intestinal tract will not be easy to discharge.

If you drink a cup of warm water in the morning before defecation, it can help soften the stool, moisten the intestinal mucosa, nourish the intestine, and promote the smooth passage of stool.

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Don't drink these three kinds of water in the morning

Tap water

Many people will be directly in the morning after the tap water, stop overnight faucet and water pipe may appear pollution, the water is polluted, which exists harmful substances will also breed at night, so it is not recommended that we drink tap water directly.

The hot water

The maximum temperature tolerated by the oral cavity and esophagus is 65℃. Drinking water above this temperature will lead to scald of the esophageal and oral mucosa, causing inflammation and even cancer.

Salt water

Do not drink light salt water after getting up in the morning, because after a night's sleep, the body is in a state of water shortage, drinking salt water will lead to more concentrated blood, but also make you feel thirsty, hypertensive people drinking salt water will lead to increased blood pressure, easy to have accidents.

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