Adults need around 2000 kcal a day. A cup of tea is apparently about 1 kcal. What would happen if I drink 2000 cups of tea in a day?

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Adults need around 2000 kcal a day. A cup of tea is apparently about 1 kcal. What would happen if I drink 2000 cups of tea in a day?

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  1. locolupo Avatar

    Kidney failure and malnutrition

  2. mightyfishfingers Avatar

    You’d still be about 500 cups short of my Gran’s daily intake….

  3. Quantum_Particle78 Avatar

    you’d pee like a racehorse.

  4. yakfsh1 Avatar

    You’re going to need to pee.

  5. DoomGoober Avatar

    Water intoxication. Severe enough case will kill you. Your body cannot handle consuming so much liquid.

  6. Mewchu94 Avatar

    You need to ~2000 a day to MAINTAIN body weight you can go a long time without any calories.

  7. ZaneBradleyX Avatar

    After about 14 cups (assuming one cup is around 400ml), you’d probably be on your way to kidney failure..

  8. shoulda-known-better Avatar

    Honestly you can go months not estong with proper water or tea intake…. So its more of a will thing

    And if you manage to drink this much in a day you’d likely get a form of water poisoning… So not so much

  9. apocalyptic_brunch Avatar

    too much water (and caffeine). I think you’d have to go to the hospital

  10. LordOfLight7 Avatar

    You would simply pass away

  11. TnlGC Avatar

    You become the King of England

  12. DarTouiee Avatar

    SloMo like Fry in 300 Big Boys

  13. Big_Pin_4141 Avatar

    There wouldn’t be enough toilets for you i guess 🧐

  14. WannaBeA_Vata Avatar

    The real answer is probably that you’d feel like crap and give up.

    The technical answer is kidney failure and water intox.

  15. DeadlyTeaParty Avatar

    My toilet would run out of water to flush with. 😭

  16. jstar77 Avatar

    Google says your kidneys can generally safely process 1 liter of water per hour (4.23 cups).

    4.33 cups X 24 = 101.52 cups in a total day which conveniently equals 101.53 Calories in a day which also inconveniently means you starve to death but it would take longer than water alone. You’d probably suffer worse consequences from lack of sleep because of caffeine, waking up to drink, and waking up to pee.

  17. JadeGrapes Avatar

    Caffeine is toxic at a certain amount. It’s a stimulant, the lethal dose is lower than you think.

    But before that, you would likely get an electrolyte imbalance, like those runners that think they have to force hydrate… and the lack of electrolytes (because they have been too diluted) will cause a heart attack.

    You need sodium, potassium, and calcium, etc. In the right ratio or your heart doesn’t beat in an organized way, and you die.

  18. Serebriany Avatar

    You kidneys would fail from one of two things, because the human body cannot handle that much water OR that much caffeine.

  19. NoChinchillaAllowed Avatar

    *active adult males need 2000kcals a day

  20. SnooSquirrels8280 Avatar

    Impossible. That amount of tea is physically impossible to drink in one day.

  21. boomstick1985 Avatar

    You’d be one hell of a caffeine addict. But man you skinny!

  22. HeatherBeth99 Avatar

    You would die from peeing out all of your electrolytes, and if there was caffeine in the tea , you would die from caffeine overdose

  23. FamiliarRadio9275 Avatar

    You’d probably get poisoned. 

  24. RedFiveIron Avatar

    You’d be British.

  25. CherryCherry5 Avatar

    You’re gonna pee a LOT.

  26. Atschmid Avatar

    You would suffer from water intoxication. Even with the caffeine acting as a diuretic, your cells would swell, you’d get confused, dizzy, your heart would start having arrhythmias and you could die.

  27. Duncan_Thun_der_Kunt Avatar

    It would kill you dead like 8 times over.

  28. DHener84 Avatar

    If it’s caffeinated, you’d probably die, right? I don’t know but besides that being too much liquids, that’s gotta be too much caffeine.

  29. Not_me_no_way Avatar

    You would have to pee A LOT!!

  30. Tinawebmom Avatar

    You would die from over fluid. Essentially you would wipe out electrolytes. I watched a patient do this.

    It’s not a great way to go.

  31. talashrrg Avatar

    You would die of hyponatremia

  32. AwesomeHorses Avatar

    Probably caffeine overdose

  33. holay63 Avatar

    It’s not just about calories, nutrients also matter

  34. Poverty_welder Avatar

    You’d pee a lot and probably puke

  35. fredws Avatar

    The dose makes the poison. 2000 cups ~ 480L how do you drink this much water?

  36. Steffalompen Avatar

    15 cups in your cranial pressure would become deadly.

  37. CatOfGrey Avatar

    That amount of water, all by itself, is likely to cause serious health problems.

    It’s about 473 liters of water, or about 125 gallons. It’s several months worth of normal water consumption for a human being.

  38. LilMeatBigYeet Avatar

    You’d shit your pants

  39. ShadowsOfTheBreeze Avatar
  40. thetruesupergenius Avatar

    If you are Native American, you’d drown in your Teepee.

  41. Jalex2321 Avatar

    You would go a lot to the restroom.

  42. PinItYouFairy Avatar

    Immediately issued a British Passport and a smoking jacket

  43. Marequel Avatar

    You die. If water poisoning doesn’t kill you, caffeine oversize will, if not that, you will shit your guts out from the amount of tannins consumed. But if not that you will starve to death because processing all that water takes energy too and you will be in the negatives anyway. But if you SOMEHOW survive all of that, you will die because of one of many diseases that nutrients deficiency can cause

  44. HotMuffin12 Avatar

    You’d be peeing a hell of a lot for sure

  45. keith2600 Avatar

    If it’s caffeinated you’ll probably die of a cardiac incident before you would have to be hospitalized by water overdose (which causes a salt deficiency).

    If you somehow survived that though, you’d get malnourished due to not having any actual vitamins and stuff

  46. HawksBurst Avatar

    You’d become british

  47. FinancialRaid04 Avatar

    Kidney stones at least

  48. Frostsorrow Avatar

    Ask Fry what happened at cup 100 of coffee

  49. Grakch Avatar

    Probably gonna feel real bad with all that tannin

  50. Anxious_Pickle5271 Avatar

    You’d pee a latte

  51. OpinionPoop Avatar

    Water poisoning

  52. nquinn1028 Avatar

    I’m curious now what 50,000 mg of caffeine in a day would do.

  53. grand305 Avatar

    Lots of caffeine. your heart would not like this.

  54. lazerdab Avatar

    Hyponatremia would kill you or put you in the hospital. Essentially you’d flush all the electrolytes out of you’re blood and your nervous system would shut down.

  55. uhndeyha Avatar

    hyponatremia

  56. Palmervarian Avatar

    The human body is just a giant cluster of osmotic pumps. Higher saline concentrations outside the cells pump liquid and nutrients into the cell until the pressure inside is higher than outside to push out the waste. Drinking all that water would shut down the pumps and you would die.

  57. PM_ME_DNA Avatar

    You would die from water intoxication around cup 30

  58. sweetestlorraine Avatar

    Caffeine poisoning and water overdose.

  59. PrairieSunRise605 Avatar

    Kidney damage for sure, but you’d probably die from some other consequence of all that fluid before that became the big problem.

  60. Louwye Avatar

    Well I just got told to drink less tea from my doctor for having 2 liters a day 🙈
    Because it was fucking up my liver. Who knew? 🤷🏻‍♀️

  61. ro23d Avatar

    Renal failure

  62. Nvenom8 Avatar

    Among other issues, you would die of oxalate poisoning.

  63. Shoddy-Area3603 Avatar

    It’s a race to see what would kill you first will it be the water or salt being off or the caffeine at around 400 cups the caffeine will kill you.

  64. Sagelegend Avatar

    You’d be too sick to continue past the first fifty or so cups.

  65. PreciousTater311 Avatar

    You would never – and I do mean never – stop pissing.

  66. Red-Droid-Blue-Droid Avatar

    Your kidneys would have something to say

  67. horsetooth_mcgee Avatar

    Try it and get back to us after about cup number 14.

  68. clara_latte Avatar

    Gotta test it on myself — all for science!

  69. SpookyFoxes Avatar

    Watch that 100 cups of coffee episode of futurama and find out

  70. MarsMonkey88 Avatar

    You would die. Either water intoxication, caffeine overdose, or shitting yourself to death. Either way, a severe seizure would likely be involved.