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Old 07-16-2004, 09:40 AM   #7
wolf
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Originally Posted by jaguar
I think 100 cups of water in 4 hours would come close to killing you.
It does. Flushes the sodium and potassium out of your system and your heart stops.

(It's got a fancy name that I can never remember without google's help ... something polydipsia .. psychogenic polydipsia. No, that's just the desire to drink lots and lots of water. oooh ... google can be so unhelpful. It should know what the fuck I really want ... hyponatremia.)
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