• 1761 Days Ago
• 04/20/2007

The Liver filters salt into the urine now?

I was under the impression that the kidneys, and not the liver, are responsible for filtering salt from the blood stream and into the urine. 

• 1760 Days Ago
• 04/21/2007

Blog syndrome

I think mistakes like these are inherent to blogs. Most other publication types go through several layers of filtering and corrections - by the peer review and editorial review. Blogs bypass these systems, and therefore they are far more prone to mistakes. Bloggers should be aware of this.

• 1758 Days Ago
• 04/23/2007

Ildith?

Where did you get the name of Lot's wife?

Getting back on topic: It is interesting how salt was once so valuable that people got paid in salt.  Hence expressions like "worth your salt" and words like "salary."  And the ancient word for salt "sal" has the same root as the ancient word for health "salut."  Too much of a good thing....

• 1758 Days Ago
• 04/23/2007

AlsoSalt

I use this stuff.  AlsoSalt is low sodium, salt-free, and actually tastes like salt (no bitter metallic after-taste).  The two main ingredients are  lysine and potassium.  I am surprised that this product is not more well known.

• 1758 Days Ago
• 04/23/2007

Dehydration kills, Salt is suspect on trial

Duh.... the "Times article explains, no one knows for sure why salt causes high blood pressure and increases the risk of stroke, although there's most likely a simple explanation"

- so we have lots of explainations for all the technology in the world but we don't really understand osmosis very well. - We don't differentiate between a liver and a kidney too well either.

Yes, there is a simple explaination. The concentration of salt is too high. or " it involves the inability of the kidney to pass an overabundance of sodium into the urine"  So theres an overabundance of sodium and theres "excess water" going into the blood. Well if this water is in "excess" then why is it being "sucked into the bloodstream"

so, we blamed the kidney for not being able to remove enough sodium, and we blamed sodium itself.  
next we automatically assume water is in excess because it is in the blood.

So.. perhaps if i drink water so that there is "excess water" perhaps the sodium will be sucked out of the blood by the kidneys because they have water and salt to remove. last time i checked, we   don't pee salt by itelf.

Until we pee salt crystals because we have gallstones we blame our diet, coffee, stress, salty food or the drugs we take before we take responsibility for our own health and drink adequate water.