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So you’ve never drank a big glass of water that takes more than four swallows?
The reason your body won’t do more than 3-4 swallows is there’s only so much saliva it can produce per unit time.
It’s not the lack of saliva to swallow. After a certain point the top of my throat feels like it locks up and won’t let me even attempt a swallow.
I haven’t tried it with water but when drinking normally I’m not trying to swallow continuously as fast as possible.
Ah. My own sense of thirst is completely missing, so I almost never enjoy water. I just chug it like I’m doing a chore, so I tend to drink as much as I can put down without running out of oxygen or giving myself the runs.
I can drink off a liter at a time if I choose, but I don’t because that much water does actually reach the other end of the tube before getting absorbed.
So for full absorption I usually do half a liter at a go, ideally a few times a day. It’s hard to remember to though because, like I said, no thirst.