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>>18287220
>>18288241
No, that's not how much water you're supposed to drink. That's literal mental illness.
>Polydipsia is defined as fluid intake of more than 3 liters per day, and psychogenic polydipsia is characterized by a volitional intake of excess fluid due to an underlying psychiatric disorder. Psychogenic polydipsia affects 6%–20% of persons with psychiatric disorders (1).
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2018.131003
Also causes protein to leak out your kidneys.
>>12674378
>Drinking two liters of water per day may not benefit most individuals and even could be harmful, investigators say.
>The large population-based study uncovered a five-fold higher risk of proteinuria among people with polyuria than among those with normal urine volume, even after taking into account such factors as age, sex, and estimated glomerular filtration rate.
https://www.renalandurologynews.com/news/too-much-water-could-be-harmful/article/118792/
The idea you're supposed to drink that much water came from a misreading of a US Food and Nutrition Board recommendation.
>A suitable allowance of water for adults is 2.5 litres daily in most instances. An ordinary standard for diverse persons is 1 millilitre for each calorie of food. Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods. If the last, crucial sentence is ignored, the statement could be interpreted as instruction to drink eight glasses of water a day.
https://www.bmj.com/content/335/7633/1288

>>17842351
You can make people act drunk simply by making them think they non-alcoholic drinks you give them are alcoholic.
Drunkeness is heavily influenced by expectations / psychological factors. People who don't "get as drunk" with vodka have it in their head that vodka won't get them as drunk, which then happens because they expected it to happen.

>>17756440
That's fine. It's the salmon that frequently has tapeworms in it.

>>12146899
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