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>>12872284
>you can get brain damage from drinking too much water?
Yes. It's not an uncommon way for schizophrenics to show up in hospitals. There was an anon here who did that to himself because he thought it was helping his health to constantly drink water for whatever reason.
Bad for your kidneys too (you start leaking out protein into your urine).
https://www.renalandurologynews.com/news/too-much-water-could-be-harmful/article/118792/
>Drinking two liters of water per day may not benefit most individuals and even could be harmful, investigators say.
>At the Canadian Society of Nephrology annual meeting here, re-searchers from the University of Western Ontario, also in London, presented a study showing a significant correlation between excess urine production—which is usually caused by excess fluid intake—and proteinuria.
>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.
Reminder 8 glasses a day is a confused meme based on a quantity of water you're already getting most of just by eating.
https://www.bmj.com/content/335/7633/1288
>Medical myths
>The advice to drink at least eight glasses of water a day can be found throughout the popular press. One origin may be a 1945 recommendation that stated: A suitable allowance of water for adults is 2.5 liters daily in most instances. An ordinary standard for diverse persons is 1 milliliter 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.