Ray Peat Audio Archive

ewh-111215-q-and-a-2 — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-111215-q-and-a-2. The excerpt begins at 01:00:31.800 and runs for 57 seconds.

And as the sodium is lost, the adrenals try to correct things by increasing aldosterone, which does retain sodium, but at the expense of losing magnesium faster. And if your thyroid is low, you not only lose sodium through the kidneys, but your cells can't retain magnesium. And so on a low sodium intake relative to your hormonal needs, what you're doing is turning on a system that makes the problem worse by letting out the magnesium that is needed for cell energy and controlling inflammation and tension and cramps and so on.