If i drank a lot of water, I’m talking as much as i could handle but not to the point of changing my blood ph and killing myself, then waited for 30 seconds or so and then drank some more, then waited for several seconds again, then drank some more water, and continued this pattern, could I eventually get to the point where I would be urinating constantly without ever stopping until i quit drinking. I mean, I know there is a period of time where your body needs to process the water. I have a debate about this with my friend, I say sure, but I don’t want to try it because I fear I may blow my kidneys out and I would sound pretty stupid explaining that one.
I don’t think so; even assuming your body could process and excrete the water quickly enough to provide even a costant trickle of urine, it wouldn’t be very long before you wash all of the salts out of your system and die from some sort of nasty osmotic imbalance thing.
I think even the tiniest trickle humanly possible would still amount to a greater flow rate than the kidneys can produce. You’d have to empty out one batch before the next could be filled, so there would never be a “constant” stream, a la Austin Powers.
Hmmm, on second thought I better use some info from the web:
"Yes, there is a condition known as “water intoxication.” It is usually associated with long distance events like running and cycling. And it?s not an unusual problem. For example, water intoxication was reported in 18% of marathon runners and in 29% of the finishers in a Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon in studies published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine and in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise respectively.
What happens is that as the athlete consumes large amounts of water over the course of the event, blood plasma (the liquid part of blood) increases. As this takes place, the salt content of the blood is diluted. At the same time, the athlete is losing salt by sweating. Consequently, the amount of salt available to the body tissues decreases over time to a point where the loss interferes with brain, heart, and muscle function.
I’m honestly not sure if I’m being silly or not, but if we tried to substitute beer for water, might this “constant urination” be possible? It seems like it doesn’t take long at all for beer to pour through, after the first trip, that is. If you’re a “real man” and you try to, uh, regulate your flow (not dumping it all at once) it may give your body a chance to replace what you’re leaking, until the alcohol poisoning sets in.
If you continually drank water, it would eventually start filling your lungs, until you drowned. Much like a person with congestive heart failure. Not a pretty way to go.
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Your kidneys produce urine non-stop as long as you are taking in at-all-reasonable fluids.
If you have bladder control problems you will urinate forever. Time for "Depends"™.
If you want (???) to urinate forever it’s an issue of relaxing the urinary spinchter. (And I won’t give Mike Myers two plugs in one thread. Oops, too late.) It’ll be a trickle and not a Tom Hanks-League of Our Own torrent though. Intake will only affect the size of the flow under these circumstances, not the fact of flowing.
