you can drink a bottle of water. of a reasonable amount. quite fast if you want when you are thirsty. this is not the same as trying to drink as much water as possible and as quickly as possible to the point where you are creating a very dangerous electrolyte imbalance (often called water intoxication). this is not something that you or anyone should be doing. there have been cases where people have died.
is drinking a bottle of water too quickly bad for you? . hello . back in my high school days my friends and i went through a phase where we would try to (competitively) drink a whole bottle of water. basically a full chug of a 16. 9 fl oz's of water in about 20 seconds. this was going on about 4 times a week for a month. my questions are: can this behavior be damaging for the gi system? would it be possible to get water intoxication not from a quantity of water but simply the rate at which it was consumed? . thank you for your time!