00:00How many individual french fries would it take to end you?
00:03One fry.
00:04A delicious salty snack with zero immediate impact.
00:07One hundred fries.
00:08You've finished a large order.
00:09Your blood pressure begins to rise as the sodium enters your system.
00:13Five hundred fries.
00:14Your stomach is visibly distended.
00:16The massive dose of salt is drawing water out of your cells, causing intense thirst and brain fog.
00:22Eight hundred fries.
00:23Your stomach has reached its elastic limit.
00:26Hypernatremia is setting in.
00:27Your heart rate spikes as it struggles to pump thickened, salt-heavy blood.
00:32One thousand two hundred and forty fries.
00:34Massive gastric dilation.
00:36The sheer volume of oil and salt causes your system to shut down.
00:40Your heart rhythm fails under the electrolyte imbalance.
00:43You're dead.
00:43At this quantity, you've consumed nearly eighty thousand milligrams of sodium.
00:47Four thousand percent of your daily limit.
00:49And that is the lethal limit of the world's favorite side dish.
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