Drinking water is an essential thing we need to do. I found it interesting to see that we can actually get intoxicated by water and hyponatremia. This rare happening of drinking too much water will usually happen to infants of under six months of age or sometimes athletes. The body tries to fix this in two ways. The first is the one that leads to hyponatremia. The tissues will swell up with the water and it must be maintained like everything else in your body. Sodium is drawn out of the cells to try and fix this imbalance. Soon, the sodium concentrations will drop and it will create a lack of sodium. Another way this goes is to regain electrolyte imbalance from the outside and inside of the cell. The water will go through something called osmosis. Osmosis basically is, "Move the water over here, there just too little. Let's spread the wealth!!". The water will then moved into the cell to balance the inside and outside and the cells can burst! Its a pretty crazy process.
Here your probably thinking, "I'm never drink too much water ever, and I will make sure of it.". Like I said, it was a rare thing to happen. It's not necessarily how much water we drink, it's how fast we drink it. If we don't drink like we just got out of some intense desert when we really aren't, then its best to don't overkill on the water.
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