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Drinking too much water during exercise can cause a condition in which the concentration of sodium in the blood is lower than normal. What response do you expect to happen as the body tries to restore homeostasis?

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Your body may do several things to decrease the amount of water. This includes sweating, urinating, or even vomiting. Too much water could also cause stomach cramps.
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Excess of transpiration and cramps.

Step-by-step explanation:

Drinking too much water during excercise will lead to the body response of finding the way to recuperate homeostasis. Other than liberating more water than in a normal situation, the body will tend to have cramps; not only stomach cramps but cramps in the extremities.

The reason is that this low amount of sodium also results in a small amount of potassium and with the excess of water liberated by transpiration, most of all extremities will tend to have cramps.

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