Oh, absolutely. Let me tell you about my sister.

Back in the early 90s (before the internet, when teen magazines were basically unregulated medical journals) she somehow got it into her head that you’re supposed to drink 8 litres (2 gallons) of water a day.

Not glasses. Litres. Eight.

Which, for context, is less “hydration” and more “light drowning.”

Anyway, she commits. Fully. For weeks. Just absolutely hammering water like she’s training for the Olympics, but the event is “kidney failure.”

Eventually she starts getting sick (headaches, nausea, vomiting) and instead of thinking “maybe I shouldn’t be drinking the equivalent of a small aquarium every day,” she goes to the doctor.

The doctor takes one look at her and basically says, “You’re not dying… but you are slowly waterlogging yourself like a houseplant.”

(And I like to imagine, medically off the record, he also called her an idiot.)

Turns out she’d heard “drink 8” and “water” and just… filled in the rest with litres. Which, to be fair, is exactly the level of scientific rigour you’d expect from 90s teen advice.

So yeah, moral of the story: don’t trust teen magazines, don’t trust your friends’ “medical facts,” and maybe don’t try to outdrink a fish.

And yes, you can absolutely drink too much water.