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Sodium

leslie9579
leslie9579 Posts: 5 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I heard that if you drink a glass of water directly after eating a high- sodium food, that it will reduce the amount of sodium in your blood. Can a nutritionist confirm this?

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,323 Member
    Why do you want to reduce sodium in your blood? Without specific medical conditions, eating sodium is not inherently bad. But yeah, if you keep hydrated then the concentration of sodium (and everything else) in your blood goes down.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,533 Member
    edited January 16
    Salt is extracted from the blood through the kidneys and that takes time and drinking a lot of water can help assist that process and offer some dilution. Keep in mind though, sodium actually helps hydration and facilitates those bundles of fibers that transmit electrical signals between the brain and the rest of the body and to our muscle where lack of sodium can muck with electrolyte and nerve signal transmissions.....I'm not a nutritionist. :)
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,825 Member
    Getting enough electrolytes from food, especially potassium, can also help moderate some of the negative effects from too much salt/sodium.

    But if you're looking for a simplistic cure that will easily permit eating lots of salt, that's a quest with low odds of success, IMO.

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