Is it possible to drink too much water?!


Question: Yes, it is. You could actually poison yourself. As a rule of thumb, you should consume half your body weight in ounces of water per day. For instance, I weight 180 pounds and should consume 90 ounces of water a day.


Answers: Yes, it is. You could actually poison yourself. As a rule of thumb, you should consume half your body weight in ounces of water per day. For instance, I weight 180 pounds and should consume 90 ounces of water a day.

yes just a few years ago a woman dies from drinking a large amount of water

Yes, you can drown yourself and I'm not being funny!

Yes. It's simple - if you feel thirsty then drink water. Otherwise, you are OK. There is a lot of B.S. going around about everyone being dehydrated so you need to drink all this water. It's not true.

Too much water can flush critical enzymes and electrolytes out of the cells. And if you go way overboard your cells can swell up from too much water and cause death (from brain swelling).

no our body is made of water actually it is good for you and you will eliminate what you don't need, the way people drowned is because our throats have what is called a duedenal flap and that controls the air and the eating or drinking that is done, it turns one way for one and the other for the other, if submerged under water one has to breathe and if all they have to breathe is the water like under it then they will drowned, but if they are drinking it and they don't just get choked then no they won't drowned okay hope this helps.

As a mental health professional with 20+ years experience, now retired, I can say, without question, that "YES" is your answer here. Back when I was in my first few years of practice, I had several patients who were drug and alcohol abusers / addicts, and when we began confronting them about it, since they were taking our prescriptions for very serious medications, the protested that they were not abusing our medicine or other drugs or alcohol. Their behavior belied that, or so I thought, till I learned that people can drink so much water that they pass a significant amount of their bodily minerals out through their urine and feces, and bring themselves, deliberately, to hallucinations. I guess it was cheap fun for them. One died within a year as he vomitted and drowned in his own vomit. Another continued his downhill course in life, and somewhere along the line I had to testify against him for raping his great aunt, whereupon he spent some time in the State penitentiary. He's out again, doing what I don't know. The others? I can't remember. It's been too long now, but, yes, you can drink too much water. God Bless you.

i drink 10 or more bottles a day and im fine! im very active, i pee alot and my skin is glowing, smooth and clear!

yes. it would be kind of like drowning, only on the inside. lol.

Remember? How that one mom died because she drank too much?





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