Tag: Dangerous hydration

In 2007, a 28-year-old radio contest participant died of acute water intoxication after consuming excessive amounts of water in a short time. The idea that a person can drink 8 gallons of water a day is not only a physical impossibility for a healthy person but is also an extremely dangerous and potentially fatal misconception.

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.