Ray Peat Audio Archive

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 47:21 and runs for 1 minute 5 seconds.

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, 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.