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Hello and welcome to the Own Your Health podcast, I'm Cyndi Lynne and I can't wait to help you step into your health power. I have many clients traveling and I'm traveling as well over the spring break period. I thought it would be a great time to give three tips on staying deeply hydrated when you travel.
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The first is makes a lot of sense - drink. Being hydrated means taking in fluids, especially water. So the day before you travel and while you travel, you want to drink water and you want to have some type of electrolytes in that water.
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And that allows the body to actually hang on and use and get that water into the cells where you're going to notice the difference, where it's going to really hydrate you from a health standpoint and not simply just run through and give you a lot of extra trips to the bathroom, which isn't necessarily fun when you're on an airplane.
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So drink beforehand, get yourself really in a good spot before you get on the plane, and then sip while you're on the plane. And as a general rule of thumb, if you are someone who enjoys some type of alcoholic beverage or even a carbonated soda kind of beverage, be sure and drink twice as much water as you consume in those beverages just to kind of offset because those are not hydrating, especially while you're flying.
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So that's how you get moisture in. The next two tips are going to be about keeping it, about not losing it. And we lose a lot of moisture through breathing. We lose it through our mucous membranes or the soft, moist tissue that is in our mouth and in our nose.
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And so keeping those areas hydrated will make sure that you don't lose a lot of water when you're breathing. So something as simple as a saline nasal spray, not medicated, doesn't need anything fancy in it.
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A simple nasal saline spray works really well to keep, to keep moisture in your nose so that it doesn't dry out. Because airplane air especially is very, very dry. And something like a good, clean, moisturizing lip balm will keep your, your lips from drying out and cracking even.
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And the hydration, the moisture in your nose and your mouth is especially important because as mucous membranes, those are areas that protect our health. Those areas are guardians of our health. So our nose is designed to trap and filter allergens and particles and bacteria and, yes, viruses.
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Our nose is designed to stop those things before they get into our body. But in order to work properly, the nasal membranes, the inside of our nose has to be moist and so a nasal saline spray is the best thing to do that with.
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You'd want to do it when you get on the plane as well as, you know, an hour or two in. And if you feel dry because it's simply an a saline spray, you can really use it as much as you need to. The same is true with keeping your lips moist so they aren't cracked and dry and open to infection or contamination by toxins, by pollens, by just all kinds of dirty air.
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Keeping those out of your body is the, the filter job of your nose and the mucous membranes in your mouth. The other area I'll touch on, which is really kind of a fourth tip, is that I really avoid the alcohol based hand sanitizers.
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And I know they're very popular and people feel good about them. And a lot of planes even hand them out, either little packets that you can squeeze out or wipes that you can use on your hands. But unless you know your hands have been contaminated, something that you want to clean off of them, soap and water even is best for that.
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The reason I don't like the hand sanitizers ties into that staying hydrated. They're extremely drying and our skin maintained is our best barrier again for preventing things that belong on the outside of our body getting into the inside of our body.
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So keeping the skin on your hands intact is the best way to stay healthy. If you need to clean them soap and water, best way for cleaning. Unless you're in an actual contaminated situation. You'll continue to see alcohol based hand sanitizers in hospitals and areas like that for day to day use and for your personal comfort and safety.
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Soap and water and lotion keeping that skin moist so again it doesn't become dry and become susceptible to picking up anything on handles and trays and anything that you pick up.
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So those are the tips for keeping you healthy with travel as pertains to hydration. Get the water in, keep the water in, keep bacteria, viruses, things that belong on the outside of your body on the outside and you'll feel a whole lot healthier.
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Any questions? Absolutely. Tap me below. Send me an email. I'd love to hear about your travel. I always like new travel ideas and until next week, let's go out and own it.
