Wednesday, December 7, 2016

No Salt Humans

Great Twitter moment tonight when a medical student confessed ignorance of aldosterone and an aldosterone basic scientist piped in with what he finds beautiful about aldosterone.







I had no idea what Yanomami man was but Brian was right there:



So the paper is available for free here and it shows a kidney homeostatic system performing in ways that I would have guessed were impossible.

A 24-hour urine sodium of 1 mmol. No fricken way!

I give you table 4:

Anybody want to hazard a guess at what the giant unmeasured anion in the urine is?
Phosphate?
Bicarbonate?
Probably bicarb, especially when you take a gander at their aldo levels:

I wonder if these indians suffered from all of the ill effects of aldosterone thrown about?
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