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Natural diuretics – can they really get you dry? Part 3
Gadi Taroni
This time lets start with the list of common natural diuretics (random order):
1. Dandelion
2. Hawthorn
3. Corn silk
4. Green tea leaves (or extract)
5. Caffeine
6. Lemon juice
7. Cucumber
8. Ginger
9. Juniper
10. Parsley
Many many more…
All of them have weaker or stronger diuretic effect thanks to high caffeine content, high potassium content and other reasons.
Some never approved scientifically and Horsetail even compared to a prescription medicine (Thiazide).
Either way, all are used to get rid of excess water and are most frequently used among athletes, mostly in the area of bodybuilding and fitness.
SO..
Are they good enough?
Can you just take them all? And if you do, would you get a better result?
The answer is that they are good for a certain cause but they all depend on other variants.
If you don’t drink enough your body will retain water.
If you don’t keep a certain ratio of sodium and potassium your body will retain water, if your diet
isn’t good you will retain water, if you are a caffeine addict using caffeine to dry out is not a good idea and this goes on…
You can combine 2 or 3 natural diuretics, you can even take them all, you won’t die but you are overloading your system which is never a good idea. You’d never know what gave you the wanted or worse – unwanted results.
What to do if it doesn’t work?
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, trying natural diuretics for the first time when it comes to competition is literally a risk.
Try it out a month before your show, see how it affects your body fluids retention so you can have a slight clue of how it will work on money time.
Most importantly – DRINK WATER
Find out in the next part the importance of drinking water in order to get dry.
