Hydration as Related to Age

Hydration or water availability to cells and tissues is important for increasing the overall function and health of cells. Research has shown that babies have a higher level of intra cellular water typically than aging adults. Szent-Gyorgyi in the "Pathology of Water" made the association that muscle tissue, cartilage, connective tissue including skin, "aged" or became less pliable with time due to the lack of water provided to cells and tissues. Much of his early research was with muscle tissue and he realized that the aging process was substantially due to cellular and tissue effects of dehydration (Szent-Gyorgyi 1971). Lack of intracellular water or dehydration is predicted today to be part of the "aging" process. It stands to reason that water and the many roles it plays generally and specifically for all parts of the body will enhance many biochemical and physiological functions important to overall health when it is available to cells and tissues.