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kmud-111216-water-retention-salt — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-111216-water-retention-salt. The excerpt begins at 22:15 and runs for 1 minute 15 seconds.

Okay, so are you thinking along the lines of even relatively short term exposure to higher blood levels of calcium and/or tissues, endothelia picking up the calcium can contribute to that lack of elasticity that will be more characteristic of high blood pressure and hypertension? Yeah, each of these things sets in motion a whole sequence of events. The low carbon dioxide which lets calcium get into cells and excite them and tighten up the blood vessels for example, low carbon dioxide also lets the platelets release their serotonin and the serotonin besides adding to the tension of the blood vessels makes them permeable and leaky so that the water isn't retained in the blood stream but leaks through into the cells and the cells that are taking up calcium are also taking up water.