Category: Medical risks

Medical guidelines state that people who are otherwise healthy can be at risk of death from malnutrition after six to eight weeks on a hunger strike. This raises the critical question: is a hunger strike bad for you? The short answer is unequivocally yes, with a range of severe and potentially fatal consequences.

Your kidneys can only process about one liter of water per hour. Chugging twenty 16.9-ounce (approx. 0.5 liter) bottles of water in a short period would massively exceed this capacity, leading to a dangerous and potentially fatal medical emergency known as water intoxication.

While vitamin E is a necessary antioxidant, a 2005 meta-analysis found a statistically significant link between high-dose supplementation and increased all-cause mortality. It is important to understand the significant cons of vitamin E when taken in supplement form.