Why will drinking 6 liters of water in 3 hours kill you?
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Too much of anything will kill you. Water poisoning is an interesting thing because you think hey we are 60% water anyway. But your body has systems in place to deal with too much water or not enough water. We all know what it’s like to be dehydrated. When you are hyper hydrated we just kinda pee more, and then we are back to normal. But way too much water, way too quickly, overloads these systems and the water has got to go somewhere. For other things like too much food or alcohol we vomit to get it out. Water on the other hand is absorbed far too quickly by our stomach. Part of the system that keeps your stomach acid acidic. This water that’s absorbed goes everywhere in your body, remarkably fast, drink too much water too quickly and you start to run out of places to put it, that’s when the water poisoning sets in.
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