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Hydration: Are You Drinking Enough Water?

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How Does Dehydration Affect Your Vision?

As your body gets more and more desperate, it starts to grab water from wherever it can. Usually your skin is like an elastic band - if you pinch the back of your hand, it should snap right back. But if you don't have enough water, your skin won't bounce back. And when you are really dehydrated, even your eyeballs get water sucked out of them. So you lose water from the brain and it becomes a little bit smaller.

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