Why is it that when you drink water your pee become clear and thats a sign that you’re hydrated, but when you drink beer you become dehydrated but your pee is still clear?
Clear urine simply means that you have a lot of water in your urine and the urine is dilute. When you're well hydrated, you pee out excess water and the urine is clear. When you drink alcohol, the alcohol inhibits a hormone that helps the kidneys reabsorb water.
The Short Answer
Clear urine simply means that you have a lot of water in your urine and the urine is dilute. When you're well hydrated, you pee out excess water and the urine is clear. When you drink alcohol, the alcohol inhibits a hormone that helps the kidneys reabsorb water. As a result, you pee out excess water making the urine clear…and you're peeing out more dilute urine than you should. This is what makes you dehydrated when you drink alcohol (and beer is mostly water, so now you're drinking water and stopping it from being reabsorbed so…even more water in the urine).
Analysis
Key Concepts: Urine, water, clear
This explanation focuses on urine, water, clear and spans 103 words across 5 sentences. At 58% above the average Everyday Life explanation (65 words), this is one of the more thorough answers in this category, reflecting the complexity of the underlying question.
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The explanation opens with: “Clear urine simply means that you have a lot of water in your urine and the urine is dilute.” It then elaboratesultimately building toward a complete picture across 5 connected points.
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Is there a simple explanation for why it that when you drink water your pee become clear and thats a sign that you're hydrated, but when you drink beer you become dehydrated but your pee is still clear?
Clear urine simply means that you have a lot of water in your urine and the urine is dilute. When you're well hydrated, you pee out excess water and the urine is clear. When you drink alcohol, the alcohol inhibits a hormone that helps the kidneys…
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