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

<p>Drinking water is great for your health, but how much water do you really need to drink?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>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&nbsp;the&nbsp;European Society of Cardiology Congress 2021.</p> <p>The&nbsp;research from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that staying hydrated&nbsp;throughout your life can reduce your risk of heart failure&nbsp;as far ahead as 25 years later.</p> <p><strong>SEE MORE&nbsp;<a href=https://www.editorji.com/story/eat-these-water-rich-foods-to-keep-dehydration-at-bay-1598406694857>Eat these water-rich foods to keep dehydration at bay</a></strong></p> <p>Official recommendations on daily fluid&nbsp;intake&nbsp;range&nbsp;from 1.6 to 2.1 litres for women and 2 to 3 litres for men. Sounds easy enough, right?&nbsp;But surveys show that nearly one in two persons do not fulfil their&nbsp;daily&nbsp;adequate intake&nbsp;of water from fluids.</p> <p>Authors of the NIH study explain that dehydration becomes especially problematic when&nbsp;a lack of fluid intake&nbsp;shoots up&nbsp;ones blood salt levels above a specific threshold&nbsp;(of&nbsp;142 millimoles per&nbsp;litre.)&nbsp;Their findings linked higher serum sodium concentration in midlife with both heart failure and left ventricular hypertrophy 25 years later.&nbsp;</p> <p>But the good news is that you can reduce your risk significantly just by drinking enough water!&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>SEE MORE&nbsp;<a href=https://www.editorji.com/story/glass-water-bottle-is-it-a-safer-alternative-to-plastic-variant-1607757735046>Glass water bottle: is it a safer alternative to plastic variant?</a></strong></p>