Imagine your body is a fancy cocktail. Your blood needs the perfect balance of water and salt (sodium) to work right. When you chug tons of water without enough electrolytes, you dilute that salt concentration. It’s like adding too much soda water to a whiskey—the flavor disappears, and things get weird.
Your brain cells are especially sensitive to this. They start to swell as water rushes into them to balance the salt levels. That swelling is where the trouble begins—and why the symptoms feel so odd.
