Why do we feel thirstier the more we drink in summer?

A few days ago, I went to climb the Great Wall with a friend. After sweating profusely, my friend started to buy drinks constantly. It seemed that he could never drink enough. Then a question arose: Why do you get thirstier the more you drink? Here are a few reasons:

1. After sweating in high temperatures, the human body loses a lot of water. Although a certain amount of water is replenished after drinking beverages, the ion concentration of sweet drinks is generally much higher than the average ion concentration of human blood. This will cause the average ion concentration of the human body to increase, and people will become more thirsty.

2. Another possible reason is that consuming too much sugar in a short period of time will strongly stimulate the nerve center, which will also make you feel thirsty.

3. In addition, after drinking sweet drinks, the sticky feeling in the mouth will not make people feel comfortable, so they always subconsciously wash it down with drinks, and the more they wash, the thirstier they become, and this repeats over and over again.

Why does drinking mineral water make you thirstier?

In the summer, we sweat a lot, and what we excrete is not only water, but also a lot of salt. When the salt content in the body is low, the body's osmotic pressure will lose balance. Therefore, the water we drink at this time not only cannot be stored in the cells, but is also easily excreted from the body with sweat. The sweat excreted brings out salt, so it will form a vicious cycle of the more you drink, the thirstier you become.

So, I want to say: when you sweat a lot, you should supplement a certain amount of salt.

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