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Actually the likelihood of drinking too much water is very small. In most cases, you will NOT flush out water soluble vitamins or electrolytes because of the way the kidneys produce urine, it uses the water to flush out ammonia but retains electrolytes. The exception is when you are drinking excess water and sweating a lot, for example when you are running a marathon in hot weather. In that case, you lose electrolytes through sweat (not through urination) and drinking pure water doesn't replace those electrolytes, and will result in a condition called Hyponatremia. Otherwise, drinking 8-12 glasses of water a day is healthy and helps keep your body in good working order.
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Most of us only need 8 - 8 ounce glasses of water unless exercising a lot or playing sports or in a marathon. If you drink too much water, eventually the kidneys will not be able to work fast enough to remove sufficient amounts from the body, so the blood becomes more dilute with low salt concentrations.
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