Why Humans cannot drink or absorb salt water?

Answer 1

The human body needs a balance of all nutrients. An overload of salt would dry out the whole body and usually make people vomit if they drink too much. However adding a quarter teaspoon of sea salt to a litre of drinking water will aid water retention and increase thirst levels. Everything in moderation.

Answer 2

it ruins the kidneys and makes you very sick if you drink it

It also will dehydrate all of your cells because the cells will give water to the salt to go throught the system. All the cells will shrivel and you'll get very sick and might die.

Plainly speaking, drinking saltwater consistently would cause lethal dehydration. By drinking salt water, you actually use more water than you gain just to enable the body to dissolve the added salt intake. As the salt passed through your body, it would cause the cells it came into contact with to shrink as they are drained of water content, and eventually your internal organs - particularly your kidneys - would begin to shut down.

Answer 3

Humans cannot drink or absorb salt water because the high concentration of salt in salt water disrupts the kidneys' ability to filter out the excess salt, leading to dehydration rather than hydration. Drinking salt water can also upset the body's electrolyte balance, which is essential for proper functioning of cells and organs.