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kmud-130315-palpitations-and-cardiac-events — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-130315-palpitations-and-cardiac-events. The excerpt begins at 00:46:45 and runs for 59 seconds.

If your blood vessels leak for any reason, if something makes them permeable, such as hyperventilating, you lose a little blood volume, and anything that lowers your blood volume or sugar or sodium will cause your kidneys to activate the process that ends up increasing aldosterone, and the aldosterone has the central function of making you not lose sodium so fast. Keeping the sodium inside your bloodstream helps the blood to absorb water so that it doesn't form edema. It stays in the circulatory system, nourishing the tissues. But the side effects of that essential regulatory aldosterone,