When you are dehydrated, why is it so hard to drink enough water?
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To add on to everyone, water in itself isn’t the all powerful when it comes to hydration. It’s sodium. The salt in the water is what causes the water bits to slow down in the digestion process, and allow water to be retained. Remember when you were in elementary school and someone in class said they’d just drink ocean water before they’d die of dehydration on an island? And the teacher said they’d die faster? Well, it’s just the opposite there. Instead of water slowly going in, it’s coming in fast with too much sodium for the kidneys to function correctly. So they just expell the water. In cases of dehydration with slow water consumption, your kidneys won’t do much because too much water will be too much on your digestive tract and you’ll eventually end up just bypassing everything through your stool if it’s not absorbed in the intestines fast enough
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