4/16/26

Hydration! How can we do it better? with Guest Speaker Gina Bria

Gina Bria is the co-author of Quench with Dr. DanaCohen, MD, a groundbreaking work that challenges conventional hydration myths and introduces a paradigm-shifting insight: true hydration is not about drinking more water. Instead, Quench reveals how water is structured, stored, and delivered through the body via the connective tissue network known as fascia. Drawing on cutting-edge science and interdisciplinary research, Bria—alongside her co-author—offers a compelling and accessible explanation of what fascia is, how it functions as a fluid communication system, and why it is central to cellular hydration, longevity, and vitality.


She is a cultural anthropologist researching ritual, ritual foods, and food strategies for over twenty-five years. She is Founder and Executive Director of the Hydration Foundation and CEO of HYCHIA, LLC. Trained at Columbia University, she is a former Berlin Fellow with the Social Science Research Council, a National Endowment for the Humanities finalist and has been featured at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She weds ethnographic strategies to the new science on hydration to serve the elderly, school children, athletes and hydrating while traveling. She has coached many of TED speakers on better brain performance. An innovator and inspiring speaker, her work has appeared in such diverse places as the New York Times, Grand Central Station, Harvard University, and the Wissenschaftskollege, Berlin. She is the recipient of the Buckminster Fuller Institute Design Science Award.

More Info:

https://hydrationfoundation.org/about-us/

https://www.drdanacohen.com/Quench-Book


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