I was force fed a "Distilled / RO filtered water BAD" video by youtube. However I noticed something about it. They compared the effects of salt water, saline, and pure water to blood cells.
Salt water made them shrivel, saline nothing, and pure water expand.
I drink only RO water. I know RO water has immense benefits, especially when the alternative is shit city tap water. I live those benefits with my chronic illness.
However it made me think, maybe there are benefits to drinking salt water every once and awhile too. Obviously if there were, the system would demonize it and hide it.
So what know you based mental livers of the actual real world real reality, does salt water actually have benefits when drunk irregularly? I just drank a glass full and my awareness just skyrocketed.
Might be worth it to check your labs next time you get an appointment.
As for the stupid red blood cell videos - it isn't just red blood cells that do this shit, anything with an osmotic pressure will respond to a change in environment.
But, the red blood cell isn't just surrounded by pure water or salt water or whatever, it moves in the blood plasma, which is buffered - buffered and buffered - by every cell, meaning the salt water you drink never goes directly into the blood stream.
The entire body tries to make a balance, and when you drink salt, the body balances it by several mechanisms within the cells to combat too much or too little electrolytes.
One of the theories (no idea on the actual cause research) of high blood pressure is too much salt, is because when the sodium concentration in the blood is too high, the cells pump out water to lower the concentration and this causes the volume of blood plasma to increase, meaning the heart is pumping larger volume for the same amount of red blood cells and has to work harder. Just a theory as far as I know, but the process is how the body buffers everything that goes into it.
Labs are your friend in this case to figure out what your electrolyte levels actually are.
localsal 0 points 10 months ago
Might be worth it to check your labs next time you get an appointment.
As for the stupid red blood cell videos - it isn't just red blood cells that do this shit, anything with an osmotic pressure will respond to a change in environment.
But, the red blood cell isn't just surrounded by pure water or salt water or whatever, it moves in the blood plasma, which is buffered - buffered and buffered - by every cell, meaning the salt water you drink never goes directly into the blood stream.
The entire body tries to make a balance, and when you drink salt, the body balances it by several mechanisms within the cells to combat too much or too little electrolytes.
One of the theories (no idea on the actual cause research) of high blood pressure is too much salt, is because when the sodium concentration in the blood is too high, the cells pump out water to lower the concentration and this causes the volume of blood plasma to increase, meaning the heart is pumping larger volume for the same amount of red blood cells and has to work harder. Just a theory as far as I know, but the process is how the body buffers everything that goes into it.
Labs are your friend in this case to figure out what your electrolyte levels actually are.