Sure, we all know water is good for you. But when was the last time you drank eight glasses of water normally, without forcing it? Not only is it uncomfortable having that much liquid in your stomach, recent studies show it’s not healthy, either. In some extreme cases it has even led to death. Here are some reasons why too much of a good thing can cause more harm than benefits.
1. Consuming too much water hinders your body’s ability to get rid of waste

When you drink more water you urinate more, right? You would think that means you are getting rid of the waste quicker. But studies have shown that when you urinate excessively your kidneys have to work overtime to try stabilizing your system.

Your kidneys’ function is to sift excess waste and water out of the bloodstream, but when you drink too much water, there is a lot more blood for your kidneys to clean.

2. Excessive water negatively affects the brain

While studies show water can help memory and focus, they also show that too much water can have the opposite effect. We already know that too much water dilutes your blood. But when your kidneys are unable to get rid of the excess water, the cells in your body swell and take in more and more water to relieve the burden on the kidneys.

“Most cells have room to stretch because they are embedded in flexible tissues such as fat and muscle, but this is not the case for neurons. Brain cells are tightly packaged inside a rigid boney cage, the skull, and they have to share this space with blood and cerebrospinal fluid, explains Wolfgang Liedtke, a clinical neuroscientist at Duke University Medical Center in the published article, “Strange but True – Drinking Too Much Water Can Kill” for Scientific American. “Inside the skull there is almost zero room to expand and swell,” he says.

As a result, some people experience seizures, coma, respiratory problems, even death.

3. It wears out your circulatory system

When you drink too much water your body expands to accommodate all the water it doesn’t need and can’t process, and, much like clothes that don’t fit get stretched and worn out quicker, the blood vessel walls wear out from taking on the excess fluid.

It also dilutes the amount of sodium in your blood, which your whole body needs in order to function. This means that your blood has to go through your body more times in order to get the appropriate amount of sodium to the rest of your cells. This also puts strain on your body because they aren’t getting the chemicals they need.

The same thing happens to your cells and kidneys. So, even if you stop drinking so much water, you could still have problems with your kidneys because they have been repeatedly flooded with surplus fluid.

Yur argument against water intake is insufficien.Is it not better to render yur blood more fluidy than oherwise that will subject it to hard sifting ?
I know excess of evryting is bad ,what is the maxi and mini of water one should take per day and how can one take it ? Op

3 reasons why taking too much water is good..... You rarely get sick, you have an efficient imune system and finally, it aids blood transfusion..... Op, if na play, stop am!!!!

3 reasons why taking too much water is good..... You rarely get sick, you have an efficient immune system and finally, it aids blood transfusion..... Op, if na play, stop am!!!!

Studies like these are usually done on a few individuals who were not in good shape to start off with - sorry I totally disagree too.

Encouraging people to drink less is not a good idea and when you make unhelpful posts like these that's what it will do to the innocent

This reminds me of one episode of a thousand ways to die where a woman died from excessive drinking of water. Her brain cells increased so much that they burst!

Funny

angieberry:
This reminds me of one episode of a thousand ways to die where a woman died from excessive drinking of water. Her brain cells increased so much that they burst!

It's not funny

Ben1975:
Funny

Pele

That can't happen in real life, that's for the movies.

angieberry:
It's not funny

Ben1975:
Pele

That can't happen in real life, that's for the movies.

A thousand ways to die... is a documentary of real life events that had happened b4