Tom Brady drinks 37 glasses of water a day

TBR · Feb 1, 2018

Something isn't adding up.

He drinks 37 "glasses" per day? A 'glass' is typically 8 oz. So 37 x 8 = 296 oz total?

Ok... But the article quotes his book:

"“Drink at least one-half of your body weight in ounces of water every day,” the book instructs. “That’s the minimum. Ideally, you’ll drink more than that, and with added electrolytes, too.”"

Take Brady's weight according to Wikipedia: 225 lbs, in half that's 112.5 lbs, but swap the lbs for 'oz'. So 112.5 oz. That's not 37 glasses (8 oz per glass) aka 296 oz total.

patman12 · Feb 1, 2018

That amount of water could lead to water intoxication and screw up his sodium and potassium levels, That'd impact multiple organ systems.

jah · Feb 1, 2018

Brewskies said:
I can't even drink 8 - 8 ozs classes a day as I have been told to do. It's a struggle for me. I can't imagine 37 unless the ounces are small.

The good news is that 8-8 figure is actually an overestimate for most people.

Steve102 · Feb 1, 2018

I would like to know the glass/ounce conversion. You old buzzards can remember Richie Cunningham on Happy Days...

GoBlue · Feb 1, 2018

moosekill said:
“Drink at least one-half of your body weight in ounces of water every day,” the book instructs. “That’s the minimum. Ideally, you’ll drink more than that, and with added electrolytes, too.”
So for a 220 pound guy that is a minimum of 110 oz per day. Roughly a gallon of water. My son lifts weights often and he always has a gallon of water with him. I believe that your body adjust to it and you don't have to urinate any more than normal once it has adjusted.

I totally agree. I never drank much water. A blood test showed my creatinine level was above the limit.. I'm older but i still lift a lot of weight every day so the doctor wasn't worried but told me to drink more water..I upped it to about 100 oz a day. And for weeks i wore out the carpet to the bathroom and like you say my system adjusted. And the last test showed my creatinine level to be in the acceptable range..

Bobsyouruncle · Feb 1, 2018

I don't see any source for "37 glasses of water." The link on that sentence goes to an unrelated article. Even still "glass" isn't a defined amount.

Drinking half your body weight in ounces is very common advice and isn't all that much water. 220lb= 110oz.

Sounds like Brady's hydration advice is very common and uncontroversial and the article is spinning a baseless recommendation Brady never made.

mosi · Feb 1, 2018

Tom Brady has earned the right to drink as much water as he wants.

Big-T · Feb 1, 2018

Joe Lauzon (UFC) said on a podcast once everyone should try drinking a gallon of water a day every day for a week and see how much better they feel, look and rest. So if Brady is drinking roughly a similar amount, it's not that out of the ordinary.

So it depends on just how big the glasses he's drinking from are.

oldrover · Feb 1, 2018

That much urine creation would be dangerous for me...

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bbobbo · Feb 1, 2018

Brewskies said:
I can't even drink 8 - 8 ozs classes a day as I have been told to do. It's a struggle for me. I can't imagine 37 unless the ounces are small.

i'm pretty sure ounces only come in one size....

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ctpatsfan77 · Feb 1, 2018

I've also heard some people argue that that 64-oz figure should include the water contained in food.

maineman209 · Feb 1, 2018

Perhaps not coincidentally, the Mayo Clinic and the CDC both recommend that an average healthy male should consume up to 3.7 liters of water a day (roughly 125 ounces/one U.S. gallon). This consumption includes water obtained from fresh fruits and veggies, fruit juices and other sources (presumably NOT including drinks that tend to have a diuretic effect, like anything containing alcohol or caffeine).

There are, of course, other variables that affect the volume recommendation - body mass, age, activity level, etc.

Anyway, I could see some editor (correctly) thinking that the average Daily News reader would have no idea how much 3.7 liters is, and then incorrectly thinking that a liter is about 10 "glasses" of water, thereby translating 3.7 liters into "37 glasses".

RelocatedPatFan · Feb 1, 2018

mosi said:
Tom Brady has earned the right to drink as much water as he wants.

Will people complain if he keeps his lips on the glass for too long?

Ring 6 · Feb 1, 2018

Cohle said:
Tom Brady’s water habit could kill an ordinary person

Is he trolling? That sounds very hard to believe, though he is 40 and still putting up MVP numbers.. but 37? After a certain point it becomes extremely difficult to even swallow the water.

What do you all think? Is this true?

Author is an idiot.
Half your body weight in ounces.
If brady weights 220 LBs, that’s 110 oz of water or about 14 glasses of water a day, about one and hour which is reasonable.
Where she gets 37 only the math gods would know.

Ring 6 · Feb 1, 2018

patman12 said:
Watergate.

I see what you did there

Nehalem · Feb 1, 2018

AndyJohnson said:
Author is an idiot.
Half your body weight in ounces.
If brady weights 220 LBs, that’s 110 oz of water or about 14 glasses of water a day, about one and hour which is reasonable.
Where she gets 37 only the math gods would know.

"“Drink at least one-half of your body weight in ounces of water every day,” the book instructs. “That’s the minimum. Ideally, you’ll drink more than that, and with added electrolytes, too.”"

fair catch fryar · Feb 1, 2018

Jackson 2 said:
Yup, and that's the appeal. I like it in volume all day and I could never do it with the molasses that heavier brews taste like. Beer snobs are cool people...

Trust me, I am no one who should judge, but I couldn't resist. Just not a Bud fan really.

Ring 6 · Feb 1, 2018

primetime said:
I don't buy it. I developed diabetes insipidus, a rare chronic disorder resulting from a lack of antidiuretic hormone, sometime in the last five years. Thankfully mine is relatively mild and manageable without any sort of intervention, but my body is basically always in the mode most people are temporarily in when they drink large amounts of diuretics (alcohol and caffeine, for instance).

I pee about 3L of water a day, about three times as much as the average person, because anything I drink goes right through me just like when people are drinking large amounts of booze or coffee.

I wake up in the morning with an intense need to urinate (unless I woke up in the middle of the night, it's about 50/50) and extremely dehydrated, with dark circles under my eyes, even if I drank 32oz of water before I went to bed. If I don't drink water for a couple hours, my vision goes blurry, my mood sours, and I develop dark circles under my eyes. More than that and I become dehydrated. The hormone also controls thirst urges so I'm never not thirsty, only somewhere between thirsty and completely parched at any given time.

This is all to say that I drink substantially more water than the average person. I chug two pints of water before I wake up. I drink about a pint of water every 90 minutes at work and then will drink La Croix and water after work. On an average day, I drink probably 18-20 cups of water, which is more than twice the recommended amount (and most people don't drink the recommended amount).

I find it hard to believe anyone, even if they're sweating constantly, could drink twice that. If they don't have a problem like mine, their body will tell them to knock it off because at a certain point it becomes dangerous. If my condition was worse and I had to take synthetic hormone to manage it, the amount of water I drink would verge on dangerous territory and could lead to hyponatremia because it would overload my kidneys and could cause a stroke.

Drinking water is good. Most people drink too little. But, yeah, that amount is crazy. It's ********.

That’s rough. I often think that with all the ailments out there that people can have it’s amazing we are even here. Good luck with it.

Btw as I read the post I imagined you wake up looking like your avatar.

Ring 6 · Feb 1, 2018

Nehalem said:
"“Drink at least one-half of your body weight in ounces of water every day,” the book instructs. “That’s the minimum. Ideally, you’ll drink more than that, and with added electrolytes, too.”"

That doesn’t turn 14 into 37. And how the writer made that calculation I’d love to know.

h0c2000 · Feb 1, 2018

AndyJohnson said:
That doesn’t turn 14 into 37. And how the writer made that calculation I’d love to know.

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