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I read somewhere that drinking too much can actually “drown” you. Is it true? I would like to try water fasting, but the notion of dying because of drowning from drinking excessive amounts of water scares me. It is not so much the ‘drowning’ as it is the “diluting” that you need to watch out for. Our body fluids contain salts such as sodium, which are vital for fluid balance between the bold and the cells. Normally, our body has control mechanisms that maintain this balance, so that we consume huge amounts of water, our body compensate by eliminating excess fluids in the urine.

However, when we lose body fluids, we also lose body salts. During excessive body loss, replacing loses salts with pure water only will dilute the salt supply in our body. We end up with salt imbalance. Hyponatremia can cause the cells of the body to dangerously swell and malfunction. Therefore, water fating is a good idea.