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?
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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Kidney failure and malnutrition
You’d still be about 500 cups short of my Gran’s daily intake….
you’d pee like a racehorse.
You’re going to need to pee.
Water intoxication. Severe enough case will kill you. Your body cannot handle consuming so much liquid.
You need to ~2000 a day to MAINTAIN body weight you can go a long time without any calories.
After about 14 cups (assuming one cup is around 400ml), you’d probably be on your way to kidney failure..
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
too much water (and caffeine). I think you’d have to go to the hospital
Pee
You would simply pass away
You become the King of England
SloMo like Fry in 300 Big Boys
There wouldn’t be enough toilets for you i guess 🧐
The real answer is probably that you’d feel like crap and give up.
The technical answer is kidney failure and water intox.
My toilet would run out of water to flush with. 😭
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.
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.
You kidneys would fail from one of two things, because the human body cannot handle that much water OR that much caffeine.
*active adult males need 2000kcals a day
Impossible. That amount of tea is physically impossible to drink in one day.
You’d be one hell of a caffeine addict. But man you skinny!
You would die from peeing out all of your electrolytes, and if there was caffeine in the tea , you would die from caffeine overdose
You’d probably get poisoned.
You’d be British.
You’re gonna pee a LOT.
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.
It would kill you dead like 8 times over.
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.
You would have to pee A LOT!!
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.
You would die of hyponatremia
Probably caffeine overdose
It’s not just about calories, nutrients also matter
You’d pee a lot and probably puke
The dose makes the poison. 2000 cups ~ 480L how do you drink this much water?
15 cups in your cranial pressure would become deadly.
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.
You’d shit your pants
Peep…lots of it.
If you are Native American, you’d drown in your Teepee.
You would go a lot to the restroom.
Immediately issued a British Passport and a smoking jacket
Probably this: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/the-man-who-almost-died-from-drinking-tea/389706/
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
You’d be peeing a hell of a lot for sure
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
You’d become british
Kidney stones at least
Ask Fry what happened at cup 100 of coffee
Probably gonna feel real bad with all that tannin
You’d pee a latte
Water poisoning
I’m curious now what 50,000 mg of caffeine in a day would do.
Lots of caffeine. your heart would not like this.
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.
hyponatremia
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.
You would die from water intoxication around cup 30
Caffeine poisoning and water overdose.
Kidney damage for sure, but you’d probably die from some other consequence of all that fluid before that became the big problem.
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? 🤷🏻♀️
Renal failure
Among other issues, you would die of oxalate poisoning.
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.
You’d be too sick to continue past the first fifty or so cups.
You would never – and I do mean never – stop pissing.
Your kidneys would have something to say
Try it and get back to us after about cup number 14.
Die
Gotta test it on myself — all for science!
Watch that 100 cups of coffee episode of futurama and find out
drown
You would die. Either water intoxication, caffeine overdose, or shitting yourself to death. Either way, a severe seizure would likely be involved.