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How much is too much?

Its great if you want to always have to piss

Too much is if you are forcing yourself to drink more.

Your gonna end up like Sentor Kelly in the first X-Men movie.

XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

Your gonna end up like Sentor Kelly in the first X-Men movie.

haha

i do like 2-3 glasses of water and like 3 glasses of apple juice

I've drank 2 gallons of beer in a day before. I think it amounts to about 21 regular sized cans.

It's not a feat that I can accomplish all the time though.

i think it depends on your body weight

it's fine if you are active in this extreme summer heat. i wouldn't drink that much water just sitting at a desk or on a couch but seems ok if you are sweating

i do 32 ounces with a tsp of salt so I can actually hold on to it

Didn't a woman actually die from doing that a few years ago?

Unless you're doing (extreme) physical labor in (extreme) heat, you don't really need that much water in a day and if you're not evenly spacing it out, you run the risk of flushing out nutrients your body needs.

Even a gallon a day can be a little much depending on your activity level.

Phoenixeater posted...

Didn't a woman actually die from doing that a few years ago?

If you're referring to what I think you are, she drank almost 2 gallons of water over a timeframe of about 3 hours but didn't urinate because she was participating in a contest to win a Nintendo Wii. She died later that same day due to water intoxication. 2 gallons over the course of a day with frequent urination is probably fine.

Use human readable measurements not nonsense like gallons

GATTJT posted...

If you're referring to what I think you are, she drank almost 2 gallons of water over a timeframe of about 3 hours but didn't urinate because she was participating in a contest to win a Nintendo Wii. She died later that same day due to water intoxication. 2 gallons over the course of a day with frequent urination is probably fine.

It is, yes.

I regularly drink that much. That said, Im fairly active and live in the tropics.

That's a bit excessive unless you are doing really strenuous activity that makes you lose a lot of water. Like a lot of biking, running etc.

The kidneys can generally process something like a liter of water every hour, so that's a gallon every four hours.