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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 00:47:44 and runs for 1 minute 14 seconds.

the side effect is to lose--instead of losing sodium, you lose potassium and magnesium, and the loss of potassium and magnesium are very important in causing the heart rhythm problem. The repolarizing restorative process of the heart muscle means that the cell can retain magnesium and potassium and excrete the excitatory sodium and calcium. And so if you're restricting salt or having hypoglycemia or losing blood volume for any reason, your aldosterone is going to tend to make you lose the stabilizing magnesium and potassium, and all of your cells will tend to become unstable electrically and functionally. Excellent.