In 2002, a 28 year-old woman from California died from too much water(Strange but True: Drinking Too Much Water Can Kill). Water is supposed to keep us alive, right? Wrong. Drink too much and you can get what is called hyponatremia, or dilution of the blood. This looks like if you take a normal cell, and then just start filling it until it bursts, like a balloon. The woman was holding her “Wee for a Wii”, so her body couldn’t get rid of the excess water, and thus her brain cells exploded due to lack of area to expand and swell. So how do we know how much water to keep us healthy? Joseph Verbalis says, “You should balance what you’re drinking with what you’re sweating.” If you don’t know how much you’re drinking, don’t sweat it. “Drink to your thirst. It’s the best indicator.”
I took away from this article that our bodies have a very delicate balance in order to live. Too much of anything could and would kill you, so you have to be careful. We need to stay hydrated, but not so much that our brain cells explode.
