Harmful effects from drinking TOO much water?!


Question: Harmful effects from drinking TOO much water!?
I just recently heard that drinking too much water can have a harmful effect on your health!.!.!. is this true!? I thought you could never drink too much, it passes right through you!.Www@FoodAQ@Com


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Ingesting more water than you need can increase your total blood volume!. And since your blood volume exists within a closed system - your blood circulatory system - needlessly increasing your blood volume on a regular basis puts unnecessary burden on your heart and blood vessels!.
Your kidneys must work overtime to filter excess water out of your blood circulatory system!. Your kidneys are not the equivalent of a pair of plumbing pipes whereby the more water you flush through your kidneys, the cleaner they become; rather, the filtration system that exists in your kidneys is composed in part by a series of specialized capillary beds called glomeruli!. Your glomeruli can get damaged by unnecessary wear and tear over time, and drowning your system with large amounts of water is one of many potential causes of said damageWww@FoodAQ@Com

If you drink too much at once, or if you don't let it out, your body doesn't have the chance to process it and can cause a dangerous imbalance!. What happens is that your electrolytes get too diluted until your brain no longer has access to the metals that allow synapses to fire electricity at each other!. Basically, your brain drowns!.

However, spreading out the water over time is just fine!. Www@FoodAQ@Com

Drinking too much can cause water intoxication, there have been cases of people dying from drinking too much water!. I would think the stomach being full of water would prevent drinking too much, but then again have heard of people who can drink two cases (48) of beer in a day, don't know where it goes, and the person I knew was not a bit overweight!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

You can drink too much water and die but that doesn't happen very often!. You're okay as long as you spread it out over the day!.

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Your body will tell when you had enough!. You will pee more like twice what you drink and then you will be loosing some electolytes and other vitamins!. Your body is saline a salt water!. Www@FoodAQ@Com

yes you could die from drinking too much
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