The thirst sensation failure in keeping body water balance delivered by the modern civilization should be corrected by wearable technologies
Abstract A thirst sensation as an evolutionary developed signal for behavioural compensating the lost water balance is frequently compromised at present by palatable additions and stimulants in food and drinks. This situation aggravates the risks for people’s health but many suggested indicators of hydration status are not precise due to lacking a reference to individual homeostatic setpoints. The present study was conducted using a wearable device measuring bioimpedance in three samples with an ambulatory and two laboratory protocols (4016, 13, and 29 subjects) with different successive sessions of circadian and interventional modulations of hydration status with control of contemporary short-term body mass changes as a reference of the status change. Results showed high concordance of short-term fluctuations in body mass and a skin reactance component of the bioimpedance measurements. Circadian components of this bioimpedance measure are suggested as the individual reference to track individual hydration status for correcting thirst signal failures.