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Describe what would happen if you consumed a large amount of salt water. Think about how drinking salt water can affect your blood composition and how your kidneys will respond. You should also think about whether the urine would be diluted or concentrated in the end, as well as hormonal regulation of urine.

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Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.The human body was built to handle just small amounts of sodium,

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