Ekaterina Komissarova has been working for Lifehacker for a long time. Positions himself as a medical journalist with fifteen years of experience.
And yesterday Catherine published an article on how to remove excess sodium.
She decided that she could just sweat well, and then sodium would go into the sweat along with the water.
This is exactly what Catherine writes that sweat tastes salty, and therefore removes salt.
In fact, the opposite is true.
Explain
Sodium in the blood accumulates when we lose a lot of water, or overeat salt, or cannot drink.
To be so salty, you have to be mentally abnormal.
In order not to get water when you are thirsty, you need to be a baby who feels thirsty, but does not know how to ask for water. Or you have to be an old sick person who doesn't feel thirsty due to head problems, can't ask because of dementia, or doesn't have the strength to pour himself a glass.
Well, there are also various diseases like diabetes and any other problems when water leaves the body without salt.
And one such problem, when water leaves the body without salt, will be profuse sweating.
The sweat glands draw water from the extracellular space. There is about the same amount of sodium there as in the blood, but then the sweat glands take most of the sodium back. It is several times less in sweat than in blood. The sweat, of course, is salty, but there is little sodium. If we sweat profusely, we lose water, and the concentration of sodium in the blood rises.
Potassium
In fact, Ekaterina Komissarova offers five different ways to eliminate sodium, but I will only talk about two of them here. And the second is potassium intake. Ekaterina suggests eating more foods with potassium to remove sodium.
In fact, this approach works in people with high blood pressure, provided they were initially low in potassium in their blood. If there is little potassium, then sodium is retained, which is harmful to blood vessels.
In fact, if you just eat potassium (even in a banana and potatoes), then sodium in the blood will most likely increase. This is all due to the fact that potassium is stored in our cells mainly inside the cells. Well, that is, in the blood normal potassium is thirty times less than sodium. Our cells are so arranged, they pump sodium out of themselves and pump potassium inside themselves. Sodium and potassium pumps are literally built into the cell membrane.
But the water in our body is a different story. Water is not pumped or pumped into or out of cells. Water itself easily walks through our body in the direction where more salts are dissolved.
So if you have a lot of excess sodium in your blood, and you still ate potassium, then this potassium will go mainly into the cells. That is, there will be more salts inside the cells than in the blood. Accordingly, water from the blood will flow like a river into the cells to dilute this potassium there. At the same time, how much sodium was in the blood, so much will remain. And there will be less water in the blood, because it ran inside the cells to dilute potassium. Got it? This will only increase the sodium concentration in the blood. Again past the checkout.
I used to comment and explain to Catherine under such articles, but now Lifehacker does not let me under my account.
Brothers, I beg you! Don't read anything better at all! Better watch videos about cats. You are now being cruelly misinformed at every step in the network.
