Drinking water in the right posture is very much essential for your overall health.

Water is something that you cannot live without. It flushes out all the toxins from your body, helps the body to absorb minerals, provides oxygen to your brain and does several other activities which keep you alive. But at the same time, how you consume the water matters equally for a healthy living. Now, let's admit it that we all often drink water while standing up and never consider the harmful consequences. As par the specialists, this does not quench your thirst properly and also possesses a number of harmful impacts on your health.

Poor digestion: When you drink water while standing up, the water splashes directly onto the stomach walls, which further causes a severe damage to the digestive tract. This ruins the overall functions of the digestive system and eventually leads you to several health issues.

Kidney damage: As you drink water in a standing position, the water can’tget filtered properly while flowing down towards the stomach. Therefore, the water impurities gather inside the gallbladder, which further causes damage to the kidney health. This can even lead you to urinary tract disorders.

Heartburn: While flowing down the system, the water travels at a high speed through your oesophagus and ultimately damages the sphincter (which is the valve that stores food inside the stomach). This leads you to an uncomfortable condition called heartburn.

Nerve tension: When you are in a standing posture, the sympathetic system of your body remains activated. Therefore, the consumed water flowing through the system creates intense tension between the muscles located in the nervous system. This even leads your body to feel out of sync with nature. People who make this a regular habit, experience various kinds of critical issues in future.

Arthritis: The water flow becomes very rapid through your body, when you drink it in a standing position. Also, it creates an imbalance of the other fluids present in your joints. This ultimately leads you to develop arthritis as well as joint pain and bone degeneration.

Weakness: Water supplies nutrition to all the muscles and organs in your body. When you drink it while standing up, the water gets restricted to do the job properly. This, in long term, makes the bodily muscles and organs very weak and leads you to fatigue.

Also, as Ayurveda suggests, when you drink water while standing up, your body becomes unable to receive all the benefits from the water. It may cause some serious damage to your lungs as well as heart. So, do consider sitting down whenever you drink water!