Maintaining proper levels of anything in your body is important for your body to function appropriately. Electrolytes are electrically charged minerals, negative or positive, and run throughout the body’s fluids, blood, and urine. The major electrolytes of the body are Na+ (sodium), K+ (potassium), Cl– (chloride), Ca2+ (calcium), H+ (hydrogen), HCO3– (bicarbonate), and phosphates; these electrolytes can be found in the food and drinks we consume everyday. They are responsible for many body processes such as the transport of water and other fluids within the body, muscle activity, and even metabolism to name a few. If one were to fail to balance their electrolyte levels whether the amount is too high or too low, with any of the electrolytes that the body uses, it can create problems for any individual’s functionality. With that being said electrolyte levels inside the body are amongst one of the many things in ones body that are important to keep balanced on a day-to-day basis.
Electrolytes affect the osmolarity of the body’s fluids, which is the amount of mineral content present in the fluid itself. Directly related to water balance, electrolytes work with the water in the body to carry out its processes and aid in transportation and distribution across membranes due to the positive or negative charges that have resulted from the solutions. This makes the two, water and electrolytes, dependent on each other meaning that if water levels are insufficient or there is excess it would affect the osmolarity that would throw off the balance causing solutions around the body to be more dilute or concentrated. Similar complications would occur if the electrolyte levels were too low or high. When this happens the electrolytes are incapable ...
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...ine. Imbalances in phosphate levels do not really occur because the body can handle a wide range of phosphate concentrations and whether high or low it does not have a huge affect on the body. But to maintain a balance the parathyroid and renal tubules act to increase or decrease the concentration in the fluids.
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In the older population, dehydration can also be caused by ineffective kidneys, they may not be able to hydrate themselves due to a disability such as stroke, or they chose not to intake fluids. Hydration is an important fac...
Including alkaline foods in your diet provide your body with essential nutrients. These nutrients are directly absorbed and are good for your health. The alkaline diet does not starve you and are good in burning up excess fat .Alkaline foods contain high energy which keeps you going. This helps you avoid other energy foods which could otherwise lead to weight gain.
“ Each nephron interlinks with a small tube to keep useful substances, such as proteins and red blood cells, in the bloodstream and allow extra fluid and waste products to pass through, where they become part of the urine. This filtration system can, however, be damaged by high levels of blood sugar. Excess glucose in the bloodstream can cause the kidneys to filter too much blood” (“Kidney failure and
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Bases or alkalis have low hydrogen ion concentration and accept hydrogen ions in solution. Acidity or alkalinity of a solution is measured by pH. Acids are constantly produced during metabolism. Several body systems are actively involved in maintaining the narrow pH range necessary for optimal function. Buffers help maintain acid bases balance by neutralizing excess acids and bases. The lungs and the kidneys help maintain a normal pH by either excreting or retaining acids or bases.
Drinking water is one of our basic needs in order to survive, therefore the water that we drink and cook with must be of a high quality, and filtered of any harmful contaminants.
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Actually the nature of body, itself indicate the dehydration condition by regulate self mechanism. The thirst is body’s ways of telling that it needs the fluid. The thirst is the craving for fluids which is the sign of dehydration, resulting in the basic instinct of animals to drink. It is a mechanism involved for regulation of body in water balance. It arises when the water volume of the body falls below a certain threshold level. Because of that osmolite concentration becomes too high and the message go to the nervous system which cause the thirst is triggered. When the 2% body is hydrated that time thirst occurs and the mouth become dry. But in view of the fact that severe dehydration also not affect on the body but also mild dehydration also serious causes on the body. As thirst sense more slowly, it is difficult to understand the dehydrated situation. Furthermore sensation of thirst is gradually decreasing as raise the dehydration situation. This mild dehydration too effect on body by decreasing performance, energy level, consciousness, person’s mood. One of the lead scientists ...
For example, a study from the Voice Institute of New York found that drinking alkaline water with a pH of 8.8 can help deactivate pepsin. Pepsin is the main enzyme that causes acid reflux. Another study published in the Shanghai Journal of Preventive Medicine suggests that drinking alkaline water may be beneficial for people who suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol. Meanwhile, the study from the University of Alberta concludes, “it would be prudent to consider an alkaline diet to reduce morbidity and mortality of chronic disease that are plaguing our aging
Water is an essential nutrient that our body requires every day. Without water human life cannot be sustained. Water deprivation kills faster than lack of any other nutrient. People do not think of water as a nutrient and don’t realize the important role of water in the body functions.
Minerals (micronutrient), there are various minerals and each group plays a different role, calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) and phosphorus (P) all help to harden bones and teeth. Iron (Fe) plays a crucial role in haemoglobin (Hb). Potassium (K), sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl) are all helpful in maintaining the bodies PH balance and are all used in action potential (Grammarly,