Hydration, Thermoregulation and Fluid Balance: Implication for Health

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue for Nutrients on topics related to hydration, thermoregulation and fluid balance in health. As the Impact Factor of Nutrients is currently 5.9, publishing your work presents an opportunity to educate our broad readership about hydration, fluid balance and thermoregulation. Exercise hydration has received significant attention in the past, and only recently has the discussion shifted toward viewing hydration as a healthy lifestyle behavior. Water is considered by some experts to be the ‘forgotten nutrient,’ as many dietary recommendations exclude specific fluid intake guidelines. We know of many health benefits related to maintaining adequate fluid intake, and we continue to find more such benefits through research. Many chronic diseases are prevented when adequate fluid intake is consistent. Sometimes, even short-term responses to other types of stress are mitigated with the maintenance of hydration. This Special Issue serves as an opportunity to share the latest research on hydration and health.

Further, our planet continues to warm. This process continues to present many challenges to humans of all ages. We are still learning about the stresses on various systems in the body caused by this phenomenon. Unfortunately, to date, research documenting effective and consistent improvements to thermoregulation and heat illness prevention has fallen short. This Special Issue highlights the urgency of documenting specific stresses, sex differences, age alterations, heat stress challenges and strategies to overcome the barriers to thermoregulation. There are many people who face inherent daily heat stress risks, and this stress will worsen without intervention.

In this Special Issue of Nutrients, we welcome original research articles, as well as review articles discussing the current state of research in this field.

We hope that you will accept this invitation to publish your work.

Dr. Brendon P. McDermott
Guest Editor

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• hydration
• thermoregulation
• fluid balance
• fluid intake
• water
• health