• Sundray@lemmus.org
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        4 hours ago

        The LD50 for pure H2O seems to be >90,000 mg/kg. (According to rat studies, so take it with a grain of salt.)

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        It’s lacking all sorts of minerals, electrolytes etc that the body needs. I doubt a glass of the stuff wouldn’t cause problems but if you only drink pure water then you’re going to start having problems pretty fast.

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            You could certainly make up the electrolytes and minerals in other ways (drinking distilled water may even increase appetites for those types of foods). Still, drinking a liquid that leeches minerals out of the tissue around it isn’t healthy

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            Your body must regulate ion levels - sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc. Drinking pure water in excess will force you to produce urine, and when you take a piss, you’ll lose some of those ions with it. Big, big problem. That’s why you need salt in your diet.

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            Yea I think you’re fine drinking like a litre of distilled water. Too much of anything will kill you, even regular water.

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        7 hours ago

        It’s difficult to say and drinking a bit of sweat with every sib would help a lot. The experiment is that some of your cells in a dish with excess of pure H2O will suck themselves full till they explode due to osmosis.

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        Depends on a lot of circumstances – weight, kidney and heart function, temperature, activity. The people I saw developing hyponatriema drank more than 4–5 l tap water. Desalinated water will cause problems sooner.