{"id":3286,"date":"2025-10-17T07:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/why-is-my-urine-dark-yellow-even-after-drinking-a-lot-of-water\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:50:11","slug":"why-is-my-urine-dark-yellow-even-after-drinking-a-lot-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"Why Is My Urine Dark Yellow Even After Drinking a Lot of Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When urine remains dark despite good hydration, it could indicate high levels of waste or pigments like bilirubin. Normally, the pigment urochrome gives urine its color, but persistent darkness may result from liver dysfunction (bilirubinuria), vitamin supplementation, or diets high in protein and low in carbs. If this lasts more than 48 hours, order an LFT and urinalysis. https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK557439\/ | https:\/\/www.merckmanuals.com\/professional\/hepatic-and-biliary-disorders\/approach-to-the-patient-with-liver-disease\/jaundice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark urine after adequate water intake may reflect internal metabolic or liver stress rather than simple dehydration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-conditions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}