So I want to revisit this topic of everyone needs to drink more water.

I know last time I did a video on this stirred up a lot of opinions on this topic.

So before you click off, just please hear me out. I will say, right at front, that I do drink water,

and I'm not against water. I drink about 2.5 liters of water every single day.

However, there's some really interesting information about water because you may think

that water hydrates you. It actually doesn't. It could even dehydrates you. And I'm primarily

talking about drinking excessive amounts of water.

There's a term for this it's called water intoxication or water poisoning or

overhydration because if you think about it, how does this water get into your cells?

Is it a passive thing?

Does it just kind of go into your cells and start hydrating?

No.

There are very specific proteins that allow this water to go into your cells and with the help of electrolytes.

And so what happens when you drink a lot of water without electrolytes, you can dilute the body's electrolytes, mainly

sodium but other electrolytes as well.

And that condition is called hyponatremia and here are the symptoms. Headache, nausea, confusion, irritability,

muscle cramping as well as brain swelling. There's even a condition called E. A. H. That's a condition where the person is waterlogged, okay, and it's creating a lot of swelling in the brain and that could easily come from just drinking too much water.

And this often occurs when someone is exercising and so this really pertains to

athletes and people that exercise a lot, especially people that do marathons and they're drinking a lot, especially people that do marathons, and they're drinking a lot of water.

It could be quite dangerous.

In fact, in the Boston Marathon, 2005, at the end of the finish line, they actually

detected 13% of everyone that crossed the finish line

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