sodium and water retention?

blessedwith3boys
blessedwith3boys Posts: 136 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Can someone explain to me how this works? Why does the body view sodium as poison and retain water? I could eat anything at all until that one day.

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    It's not that your body views it as poison. It's just that our bodies have a sodium/water ratio that it "likes." If you add more sodium to your body, then your body will hold more water to balance it out.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Your body has a sodium/water ratio that it maintains at all times. Increase the sodium and your body will increase the water retained to maintain that ratio. Drink more water to flush the sodium and your body will release the water because there's less sodium (from being flushed), but it will still maintain its ratio.
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