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Doomar
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 Posted - 01/08/2005 : 21:59:11
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Anybody out there have scientific knowledge about sodium chloride (salt) use? I've heard we need sodium, but the chloride part we don't, so some say it's bad, but those who reduce sodium intake seem to get other health problem. Any thoughts?
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Ricky
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Doomar
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 Posted - 01/08/2005 : 22:27:29 [Permalink]
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| thanks, Ricky! |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 01/08/2005 : 22:36:11 [Permalink]
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If you look up "chloride channels," I'm sure you'll find all sorts of info on how important ionized chlorine is to cell function. Note also that "salt substitute" is potassium chloride.
According to Merck, the RDA for both sodium and chloride is 1,000 mg per day. There's an upper limit of 2,400 mg on sodium, but no upper limit defined for chloride (more than the body needs should be filtered out by the kidneys). |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 01/08/2005 : 22:39:23 [Permalink]
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| Ricky, if I'm not mistaken, NaCl disassociates in solution (in water) into Na+ and Cl- without any help at all. And as far as I know, the body doesn't use NaCl for anything, but uses Na+ and Cl- for separate (but interdependent) processes. There are sodium channels and chloride channels, but no NaCl channels. |
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 01/08/2005 : 22:49:03 [Permalink]
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Our bodies use both sodium and chloride. Both dissolve into ions called electrolytes in water and do not return to sodium chloride molecules until the liquid evaporates. Your body has mechanisms to maintain the correct balance of all electrolytes including sodium and chloride. You can overload the mechanisms by taking in too much salt but we do have a huge capacity to control the balance.
Now, persons with kidney problems cannot get rid of excessive salts so they need to take in limited amounts. Also, since salts on one side of a membrane, (blood vessel wall), will pull water in if the water can move in through the openings but the salt cannot move out. This leads to fluid volume increases and some people have heart problems which bigger volumes in your bloodstream make worse. They have to limit salt. And some people have blood pressure that is sensitive to excess salt so they have to limit it as well.
Bottom line, if you are healthy your body can tolerate a whole lot of excess salt. If you aren't then you have to be careful. |
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 01/08/2005 : 22:51:30 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Ricky, if I'm not mistaken, NaCl disassociates in solution (in water) into Na+ and Cl- without any help at all. And as far as I know, the body doesn't use NaCl for anything, but uses Na+ and Cl- for separate (but interdependent) processes. There are sodium channels and chloride channels, but no NaCl channels.
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Ricky
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tomk80
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Posted - 01/09/2005 : 07:15:19 [Permalink]
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| According to what I know, a diet with to little salt (specifically, too little sodium) is harmfull. However, too much isn't good either and can give rise to cardiovascular complaints. In the Netherlands the advice is given to be moderate with salt. A normal dutch diet will contain enough salt by itself for most people to live a healthy life, so adding it to your diet is not necessary. However, a normal, healthy person also won't need to go through great lenghts to avoid it. |
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Doomar
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Posted - 01/09/2005 : 11:26:52 [Permalink]
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| Many excellant comments! Appreciate them all and am learning. Ricky, it's no problem at all. |
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Ricky
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 01/10/2005 : 04:36:51 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Ricky
Now the kidney controls the amount of water in the blood stream, correct? What does it use to detect when more water is needed? Does it measure the concentration of particles in the blood stream (such as Na or Cl or some other chemical) or does it do so by pressure in the blood stream? Or something else?
Maintenance of your fluid volume has many components.
First, you have 3 compartments sort of. Inside the bloodstream, outside the bloodstream, and inside the cells.
So fluid balance must occur in all three places. The cells regulate fluid balance mainly by cell wall electrical activity. There are essentially pumps and passive mechanisms that move electrolytes in and out. Water follows by osmosis--moving from places with less attracting ions to places with more attracting ions until equilibrium is reached.
In the bloodstream everything from the brain to the kidneys to osmotic and hydrostatic pressure are involved in maintaining fluid balance. Various nerve and chemical messengers will stimulate you to drink or your kidneys to increase activity. Simple hydrostatic pressure will cause water to leave the blood stream and large protein molecules that cannot escape will cause the fluid to be pulled back in by osmotic pressure further down stream.
The fluid in the space between the cells and bloodstream is moved by the actions described above since that space is on the 'other side' of the spaces discussed. There is also a lymph system of drainage channels that move fluid back to the bloodstream via slow pumping by muscle action surrounding the channels, just as your venous blood is returned. A series of one way valves only allow fluid to go in one direction. So every time you move your arm or leg or other muscles, the vessels are squeezed and the fluid can only go forward.
Then there's your digestive system. Your body dumps a massive amount of fluid into the digestive tract and pulls it back in during digestion. But I think I've said enough for now, don't you? |
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Dude
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 14:37:51 [Permalink]
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Now the kidney controls the amount of water in the blood stream, correct? What does it use to detect when more water is needed? Does it measure the concentration of particles in the blood stream (such as Na or Cl or some other chemical) or does it do so by pressure in the blood stream? Or something else?
There are several interdependent regulation mechanisms invloved.
And don't worry Ricky, this isn't a subject of any general biology course, but rather of phisiology.
Just to clarify... the human body makes use of Na and Cl ions. Exposure to either of these substances in elemental form is hazardous. 1000ppm concentration of chlorine is fatal after a breath or two, and you can smell the stuff at around 3ppm. Sodium reacts violently, and exothermically, with water. Neither are anything you want to be exposed to.
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 23:14:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Sodium reacts violently, and exothermically, with water.
And as byproducts you get Sodium Hydrate NaOH (very alkaline) and hydrogen gas (which gets very explosive when mixed with air). In a contained space, you have the recepie for a disaster. |
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 13:13:01 [Permalink]
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| Yeah we saw some video of a science teacher and his class, they threw a log sized chunk of sodium into a gravel pit pond. It made the sound of a cannon and shot up a few hundred feet in the air when it hit the water, then fell back to the water and repeated the process over and over smaller each time, till it had all reacted. |
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