There is so much misinformation out there it drives me crazy.Before you start extracting salt from your body....Low salt levels in the blood drive potassium out of the cells. This creates an osmotic imbalance which draws sodium inside the cells where it pulls water with it so, in effect the cells actually become water logged, but the person is actually dehydrated to some degree (low fluid volume in extracellular fluid). Many people with fluid retention actually need some sodium along with potassium to drive the water back out from the cells and into the extracellular fluid.Taking potassium could drive sodium out of the body, but this would be counterproductive as mentioned above, you could become more waterlogged. Don t listen to some of these no brainers who read one text book and see the line salt retains water in the body and think they know everything.
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