The Importance of Water and Why we Should Drink Plenty of It - Part 2
Your eyes are constantly bathed in water that protects them from drying, thus preserving your sight. The water in your skin makes it soft and pliable, keeping it from becoming cracked, dry, and shriveled.
Without water, food would be of little value, for water in the form of salivary juices helps you chew and swallow your food; watery digestive juices, pouring from the walls of your stomach and intestines, disassemble the food to its individual nutrients and aid in their absorption; water in your blood carries these nutrients from the intestines either to the cells or to storage depots; and finally, water clears the food wastes in your stool.
Water transports hormones throughout your body. Water carries the chemical wastes from your cells to be eliminated by your kidneys in the urine.
In the bones of your inner ear are two sets of tiny canals. One set called the cochlea, gives you hearing; another set, called semicircular canals, helps you to keep your balance and gives you a sense of direction. Neither of these canals could function without the few drops of watery perilymph that fill their chambers.
The brain and spinal cord are literally suspended in a thin covering of water or spinal fluid that shields them from all but more severe injury.
