My sons could chug 0.7 liters no problem at that age...they would be performing at their peak after drinking it...and definitely they would not die.
Whoops...that kid had 4 of them. They could only handle that if they were playing football in August.
“My sons could chug 0.7 liters no problem at that age...they would be performing at their peak after drinking it...and definitely they would not die.”
It was not .7 liters. It was .7 liters times four in only four hours. That’s about what would be normal for a grown man IN 24 HOURS, about six times the length of time the kid’s system had to process the 96 ounces he was forced to drink.
If your sons drank 96 ounces in four hours I imagine they would have at least been hospitalized, not “performing at their peak”.
It is not the ounces, it is amount of ounces over what period of time. Your body needs salt, just not too much, and not too little. Water flushes salt from the system. Over a normal amount and speed of water intake too much salt is not flushed from the system. When excessive water consumption over a short time happens, an excessive amount of salt is flushed from the system, depleting the balance of electrolytes in the blood and cells in the body begin to swell (cells trying to NOT recycle fluids, just keep them, to hold onto remaining salt).