If you are like most of us, the first thing you do in the morning is go for your coffee pot. After all, how can you function without it? But, you are wasting it.

New research says that you are wasting perfectly good coffee.

Yep. According to Dr. Michael Breus, "The Sleep Doctor", the minute you wake up you are dehydrated. While you're sleeping "you breathe out a tremendous amount of water vapor." Because coffee is a diuretic, Breus recommends starting your day with a glass of tap water instead.

Not only will it help you rehydrate, it could help get your metabolism going, he said. What's more, early morning grogginess, called "sleep inertia," makes caffeine ineffective for the first 30 minutes after you wake up anyway. No point in wasting all that joe while your body is still in a sleep state. (Sleep Doctor)

Try it and see if you notice a difference.

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