Banana Overdose

One of my teachers said you used to have to have a prescription to eat bananas because you could OD on potassium if you ate too many.

Is this true?

 

Why don't you eat my banana and find out?

 

I would doubt it.

 

I dunno... but there's a hereditary disease out there that if you intake more than a certain amount of potassium (like half a banana's worth), you'll start tweaking out and all your muscles will cramp up and you'll pass out. My friend has it, I've seen it happen too, kind of creepy.

-Cheers and blessed be!

 

I think something like this was mentioned in one of the "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" movies.

 

What does potassium do for you, anyway?

 

It makes you gay.

 

Potassium builds muscle endurance and stamina.

 

so it's an aphrodesiac? And no, I can't be bothered to look up the spelling, and nor do I care.

 

I'd say you would turn yellow before you ODed..but I donno. It would be interesting to see.

 

I think potassium acts as a catylist in the conduction of electric impulses in the brain...


I think...


?

 

That'd be a pathetic way to die.

"What's wrong?"

"Billy ODed on bananas!"

 

Sok, actually, the kid in that movie had a potassium defficiantcy (I didn't spell that right, gimme a break, I'm tired), and the movie was "Honey We Shrunk Ourselves".

But other than that, you're right on all accounts!!

 

My friend swears his grandfather ODed on Bannanas.

 

I guess that could happen. You also might become very constipated and gaseous.

 

potassium is used by your nerve cells to conduct electricity; sodium, too.

It's an ion exchange process. You learn about it (or not) in a general psychology class.

 

Peter Andre, a terrible Australian actor/singer almost died because he ate 15 bananas, he had to be rushed to hospital. How stupid have you got to be to eat 15 bananas.
this stupid i suppose

 

One can OD on Bananas?

#Adds another useless fact to the seemingly endless list of oddities.

~Artie~

 

I heard your skin starts peeling off, too, revealing the soft, sweet innards.

 

Bananas tend to fill you up, so I think it would be hard to OD on them.

One thing you CAN overdose on, believe it or not, is water.

 

"One thing you CAN overdose on, believe it or not, is water. "

Explain.

BLAMMO!!!

 

I think it has something to do with the salt in your body, and when you drink too much water you have more water than salt in your body, and it should be equal....and then something with the cells in you body, right?


Anyway you die.

 

[face_shocked] I'm never drinking water again.

 

Dying is overrated.

 

That explanation sucked. I opt for the latter, the not part.

BLAMMO!!!