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If you're drinking 4L of water daily, you will have to be careful to not deplete your electrolytes, in particular sodium which can cause a condition known as hyponatremia. Dependent on the degree, this can be unhealthy or even dangerous especially if it leads to pontine myelinolysis.
Basically, this can occur because your kidney can't pump water out per se, but instead moves electrolytes to draw water out of your circulation--remember osmosis? Your kidneys, in general will compensate, but only to a certain extent. The rest of your cells will try to accomadate...blah, blah, blah. If you want to know more you can search google which will probably put you over on eMedicine.com.
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