If only he’d gone the next step and actually looked up how electrolytes work.
This is how conspiracy theorists actually think, they do a single Google search, fail to understand the answer because typically they have the intelligence of a lump of cheese, and form a totally incoherent theory as a result. Once the theory is formed, any evidence to the contrary is disregarded.
Flat earthers primary reason for believing the earth is flat is that otherwise water wouldn’t form puddles and lakes it would always be flowing downhill. This makes perfect sense provided you’ve failed to achieve a 12-year-old’s understanding of gravity. Which of course they have failed to achieve because of the aforementioned intellectual deficiency.
It’s what plants crave!
It’s almost like the amount of salt matters.
And the kind
Water: good
Hyperhydration: exists
The dose makes the poison.
After all breathing pure oxygen is incredibly bad for your health.
Everyone that has breathed oxygen has died or will die. Breathing oxygen is 100% fatal.
You don’t know that, there could be a baby born recently that will be the first to cryotech and then regenerative bodies.
You can drink a little amount of salt water and probably come out ahead… Drink too much and you get into a death spiral though
Why
Because you can have a little salt, as a treat.
Because your kidneys can filter out a certain percentage of salt, and that’s based on the blood concentration
But if your blood goes above the level where the water is being drawn out of your cells and drying them out, you’ll be dehydrated from the inside out
Why
Salt is hydrophile, which means it attracts water.
- To much salt (outside cell) now attracts the water in the cell to the outside -> less water in cell, cell dehydrated.
- To little salt (outside cell): salt in cell attracts water from the outside, but now salt levels in the cell are diluted (these are actually needed in your cell to function).
- Just the right amount of salt: cells can now directly use the water without diluting the salts they contain and continue working as normal
Real worried we’re going to enter a Richard Feynman level why spiral
I felt bad for the interviewer at first, until the guy really got into his explanation. He wasn’t being a dick, he was just saying “why” is a really deep question.
You only ever need 3 whys
Why?
Why?
because salt and water happen to be composed in such a way that they fit together nicely, and salt attracts the water in a similar way to a magnet. The positive and negative charges of the salt ions (Sodium+, Chloride–) fit into and attract the opposite charges of the water ions (Hydrogen–, Oxygen+).
Osmosis Jones, my man.
Evolution and shit
Isn’t this the plot of Idiocracy?
It’s a major plot point. Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator, has been put into almost everything in place of water (“water, like from the toiler?”) And consequently kills the crops.
How the fuck would it even do that? It’s got what plans crave.
It’s got electrolytes
Fun fact: the further into the Baltic Sea you go (ie the farther you are from Copenhagen), the less salty it is. Around Stockholm iirc you can just drink the water straight up and rehydrate instead of dehydrating.
Yeah, but drinking the Baltic sea’s water, one of the most if not the most polluted sea of the world, will cause you other problems 😅
rehydrating and give you cancer :v
what?
Isn’t American water usually more polluted near large industries?
What does America got to do with the Baltic Sea?
It is a continent on the other side of the planet.
And water is polluted next to every large industry.
The Danish people must be salty about that.
Apparently there’s on average 3.5% salt in seawater, so you could probably drink
1 liter100 ml daily and be fine assuming you supplement it with something “else”. you know what…Depends on rest of diet and starting conditions and duration.
Like if in a highly glycolytic diet/state… severely not advisable to do large doses of salt. But if in ketosis, you’ve a far higher ceiling. 3.5g’s normal. 35g’s likely going too far even when in ketosis.
H2O?
You won’t die immediately, but there’s no way that consuming 35g salt/day won’t lead to severe health issues down the line …
Yeah, you’re right, it was some really shotty early morning math, I was thinking 100 ml not a whole liter.
The outcome of your typo ended up being really interesting though!
35g of salt can be a lethal dose for a human of about 70kg, so no one’s going to last too long on this diet.
LD50 for a human of 70kg is 210g (3g salt per kg of human), so it seems rather unlikely that it will be lethal short-term (though always possible). It mostly becomes lethal when you don’t have any water that’s actually hydrating.
I think you may be thinking of the LD50 for rats. People have died from much less than 3g/kg.
The lethal dose was estimated to be less than 10 g of sodium (<5 teaspoons of salt) in two children, and less than 25 g sodium in four adults (<4 tablespoons of salt).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5537768/
An acute toxicity from excess sodium intake with the possibility of fatal outcome has been reported in relation to the ingestion of huge amounts of sodium, such as 0.5–1 g of salt/kg body weight.
Is it pee
Not your own. Definitely not from anyone who has taken-up drinking seawater either.
You can’t supplement it with your urine, because your urine will be containing the salts you’re trying to get rid of.
If you had an ample supply of urine from someone who was extremely well hydrated, maybe.
But yeah no you shouldn’t be drinking seawater at all, it’s just too salty. You’re expending more water of get rid of the salt. Coffee or tea would be fine despite slight diuretic effects, but ocean water is just too salty.
…what if i’m a domestic cat?..
