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When astronomers look through their telescopes for life elsewhere in the universe, they’re mostly looking for planets that might have water. Without it, life — at least, as we know it — simply can’t exist. • What goes for planets goes even more so for our bodies. Water is the vehicle that carries necessary stuff like oxygen and fuel to all our cells, and helps flush out by-products our bodies need to get rid of. Water lubricates and cushions our joints and helps keep our temperature in that happy zone where the body works right. It makes up the chemical soup by which our nerves send one another signals. • For all these functions to take place, we must constantly renew our body’s supply of water. But how much do we need, and how should we get it? Here’s everything you need to know about this
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