You drink 8 glasses of water for clear skin and the only thing that got clearer is your pee. Your body already had enough water and just flushed the extra.
Your kidneys filter about 47 gallons of fluid a day. Around 350 water bottles worth. But only about half a gallon actually leaves as pee. The rest, 99% of it, goes right back into your blood. When you chug water past what your body needs, your kidneys don't reroute it to your face. They dump it. Clear pee is your kidneys saying "we're good, lose it."
A 2018 review from Charité University in Berlin looked at every published study on drinking water and skin. They found 216 papers. Only 6 had strong enough methods to count as real evidence. The conclusion: no solid proof that drinking more water improves your skin if you're already getting a normal amount.
One study that did find something (49 women in Portugal, 30 days, 2 extra liters daily) showed better skin moisture. But the gains came almost entirely from women who were barely drinking any water before the study started. If you were already drinking normally, the difference was tiny. Your body has a priority list for water: brain first, then heart, then kidneys. Skin gets whatever is left.
Researchers in Korea tested this head-to-head in 2024. One group drank extra water. The other just applied moisturizer. Moisturizer won. Skin dries out because moisture leaks outward through the surface. A $6 cream that seals that surface does more than 10 glasses of water your kidneys will flush by tonight.
I think the whole "water for skin" thing is a distraction from what the science says actually works. A trial published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that cutting sugar and processed carbs reduced acne. High-sugar diets raise your breakout risk by 20 to 30%. Skim milk is tied to acne too because it spikes a hormone that tells your oil glands to pump out more of the oily stuff that clogs pores.
The stuff your skin actually wants: fatty fish like salmon, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin C, and sunscreen. Not glass number eight. Your skin would rather you ate salmon and wore sunscreen.
Imagine your first film dropping midway. You have to go back to TV as a dir for a decade, broken and hopes gone. Only to come back & make films with the biggest superstars and finally land the biggest project in KW. Life is a magic ✨🥳
lately i've realised, the key to doing everything in life is just aim to do something few days a week
current split:
eat healthy 5-6x, workout 4-5x, focused work 4-5x, read before bed 3x, call parents 2-3x, call friends 1-2x, the list goes on
and then rest of the days i'm allowed to do whatever i want, it's a trick & somehow i end up sticking to routine way more this way
They all want to make it complicated. It’s not.
Change your eating habits to prioritize protein and vegetables and real food.
Add resistance training.
Move more outside of the gym.
Those three things done consistently will lead to staggering results for most people.
Blood draw was prone to automation!
The question is: how much time will it take you to trust the robot with such a delicate process?
I've been following Vitestra closely for years: they have made a technological development into a patented and regulated service.
This new video shows their Aletta® Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device™ performing a diagnostic blood draw.
The patient sits in, the robot finds a suitable vein with ultrasound, helps position the arm and performs sample collection and bandage application. If multiple tubes are needed, it will fill them one by one. Everything is automated.
The device is CE marked in Europe, but in the US, it is an investigational device and is not yet approved by the FDA. That will come too.
I'd be the first one to give it a try!
my father always told me: "if you want to go for a run, go for a run, don't look for company. sooner or later, on your fifth run or your twentieth, like-minded people will find you themselves." and only recently have i realized that this principle works everywhere.