(Elchanan) SALT

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Hi Elchanan, I just read an interesting article in our local newspaper

this morning. The article was " Excess fluids dangerous for runners " . I'll

try to summarize the article. It says after years of telling athletes to

drink as much liquid as possible to avoid dehydration, some doctors are now

saying that drinking too much during intense exercise poses a far greater

health risk. They took blood samples after the race on the ones that drank

so much that they had " hyponatremia " , or abnormally low blood sodium levels,

which slowed them way down. As more slow runners entered long races,

doctors began seeing athletes stumbling into medical tents, nauseated,

groggy, barely coherent and with their blood severely diluted. Some died on

the spot or in the hospital. During intense exercise, the kidneys cannot

excrete excess water, but as people keep drinking the extra water moves into

their cells, including brain cells. The engorged brain cells, with no room

to expand, press against the skull and can compress the brain stem, which

controls vital functions like breathing. The results can be fatal.

Everyone becomes dehydrated when they race, but not one death in an athlete

from dehydration in competitive race in the whole history of running, but on

the other hand, people have become sick and died from drinking too much.

Hyponatremia can be treated with a small volume of highly concentrated salt

solution given intravenously and can save a patient's life by pulling water

out of swollen brain cells. NOW.....isn't this contradictory what natural

hygiene believes that the cells hold on to water to prevent the caustic

effects of the SALT?

Vegigran