For many, January is all about being better, doing more than you did last year, and picking up new habits like swapping alcohol out for good old H2O.
If you’re currently on a journey to better health and wondering where to start, maybe taking a leaf out of YouTuber Scott Luu’s book will help.
In 2020, the creator wanted to discover whether drinking more water over a prolonged period of time could change his productivity and performance levels.
His idea was to triple his regular water intake for 30 days and document how he found the process in a YouTube video.
As someone who didn’t drink a whole lot of liquid beforehand, it’s understandable that the first major effect Luu felt after drinking three liters a day was the need to go to the toilet.
The creator said that he experienced a ‘huge, huge, huge increase in peeing’ during the experiment, claiming instead of his usual six trips, he was going to the bathroom between 12 and 13 times a day.
However, he stated a ‘more useful’ effect of drinking so much water in the early days of the challenge was that he no longer felt ‘foggy’ the morning after completing a late-night editing session.
“Now that I started this water challenge, I chug half a liter of water in the morning and it’s like drinking clarity,” he explained.
“I can feel an immediate difference in energy, and it’s a bit freaky.
However, Luu claimed he was: “99 percent sure that’s just my mind reacting to the stimulus of drinking a lot of water because my body can’t really access that energy.”
Moreover, Luu claimed he no longer needed to include naps in his daily routine.
