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HEALTHY LIVING electricity in your body that is needed to take care of tissue damage, monitor the blood levels, nerve and muscle contractions. So, by drinking too much water, you are allowing all the electrolytes to dropdown. This dropping down of electrolytes leads to bad cramps in your stomach. No-5 Increases The Risk 34 Of Cancer There is a risk of cancer if the water you drink has chlorine in it. So, there are experts who have studied this and concluded that drinking too much chlorine water can cause testicular cancer as the bladder gets affected. Take safety precautions and avoid this small mistake. are taken forward by the nephrons. No-6 Negatively Impacts No-7 Leads To Cirrhosis Your Kidneys The kidney filters blood and eliminates all the excess waste from the body. If your kidneys don’t function well, it proves to be a bad sign for your health, isn’t it? Drinking excess water is one of the reasons for your kidney to function ineffectively. Why? What happens? Around the kidney there are capillaries, they are known as glomeruli. These capillaries take the first move in filtering the blood. So, for urine to form, these capillaries WWW.WISHESH.NET | FEBRUARY 2020 When there is excess water, this process is disturbed and it causes the kidneys to bloat. Thereon, the kidneys get affected. Overhydrating your body is bad for health. It is important to keep a check on how much water you drink otherwise it will cause trouble in your liver too. Sodium is needed to control the fluid activity in the body, excess water, drains out the sodium. Apart from this, when there is a pressure of water in the blood vessels, it goes and causes swelling in the liver. This swelling is known as ascites or cirrhosis. So, lack of sodium and pressure on the blood vessels dominate your health. No-8 Impacts Hormones As mentioned, kidneys flush out all the waste from your body and by drinking too much water, your kidneys are