How Does Water Retention?
For someone on a diet one of the highlights of the week regarding his health is the moment of weight control. This is where you can see the progress that has been achieved during the week or, of course, setbacks occurred.
But sometimes some things do not go as we thought. Flor told us yesterday how they influence our weight certain factors not usually associated with diet directly, but they are crucial when weighed, it may mean some extra pounds that never fails to annoy. One is fluid retention.
But how does water retention? Why our body tends to store this water which results in a few grams more in the balance? In here’s how is the mechanism that our body performs to always have water reserves needed to prevent dehydration.
Water is the substance that makes up our body par excellence. Means nothing more nor less than 72% of body weight of an adult, and as overtook their retention may be the causal factor that overweight that appears on the scale or in the mirror.
Our body stores water in three ways. Intracellular: compartments within cells; Intravascular: within blood vessels, Interstitial: between them (in the surrounding tissue cells. All these compartments are separated by a semipermeable membrane that prevents the passage of certain bodies and facilitates the exchange of water.
But when there is a gap between the amount of water transferred from the intravascular to intracellular fluid retention occurs.
The factors that cause fluid retention are organic order (allergies, circulatory disorders, liver disease, kidney, heart, etc..) Or daily order, such as physical inactivity, stress, anxiety, climatic factors, etc. .
Try to keep fit and drink plenty of water to facilitate trade of water in your body, thus avoiding fluid retention and those pesky extra pounds that it entails.