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> When you eat too much salt, your blood gets saltier, so your brain tells your body it's thirsty. So you drink more water, diluting your salty blood, and with
by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
> When you eat too much salt, your blood gets saltier, so your brain tells your body it's thirsty. So you drink more water, diluting your salty blood, and with more blood pumping through your system, you get high blood pressure.
To my understanding this is false. The vast majority of people's kidneys rapidly and efficiently remove any excess salt to maintain homeostasis.
- JPKab 13y agoHow dare you inject your "science" and "research" into this wonderful anecdote. sigh My first fast was 3 days of nothing but water, in the middle of the woods (by myself) when I was 15. It was part of a month long Outward Bound program. The water was coming from a lake, so I was dropping iodine tablets into it to kill the giardia. As bad as the no food part was, the lack of human contact for 3 days was even more alien to me.
- masklinn 13y ago> The vast majority of people's kidneys rapidly and efficiently remove any excess salt to maintain homeostasis. Yep, and when your kidneys can't do that and you get into homeostatic imbalance you don't "get high blood pressure", you get organ damage. And part of homeostasis is maintaining the body's fluid balance, separately from osmoregulation (under which salt regulation would fall)