Why will drinking 6 liters of water in 3 hours kill you?
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Your blood needs a certain concentration of certain things for it to keep running your body right. Like how you get cramps if you get low on potassium.
Drinking too much water dilutes those things. So it’s like if you’ve got a nice, tasty glass of koolaid, with just the perfect amount of sugar and flavor mix. It’s exactly what you need it to be. But if you add a bunch of water to the glass without adding more sugar and mix, it’s gonna be so bad you can’t really even call it koolaid any more. It certainly isn’t gonna serve its purpose any more.
That’s basically what you’re doing to your blood if you get too much water. But instead of tasting bad like the koolaid, it stops doing what it needs for your body.
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