Why will drinking 6 liters of water in 3 hours kill you?
In: Biology
Your nerves use salts (potassium, sodium) to send messages to each other. So having a good balance of salt to water allows them to work well.
Too much water means the salts are too watered down for your nerves to effectively send messages. This in turn causes confusion, delirium and then eventually death as your brain will likely give out before your heart or lungs or whatever other organs are starting to fail at that point.
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