If salt is edible and water is, why is drinking saltwater not good for you? Like sometimes you have to swish warm saltwater around in your mouth and getting ocean water in your mouth is okay so why us drinking it bad?
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The concentration of salt in the water is much higher than that of your blood. So your kidneys would have to remove the salt since they filter stuff like that. In order to filter that, they use water from your body, which in turn, makes you dehydrated rather than hydrated. This is on top of the fact that water moves in areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration (osmosis) and this will remove water from organs and tissues.
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