Hi Kathleen, you may find my article: How does salt restriction lead to heart dis-ease and fear based reactionary thinking? of value.
I link the adrenals with dehydration. Dehydration or low salt are the same condition. Hyponatremia is an emergency. All emergencies are managed by the adrenals. All the adrenocorticol hormones are deployed. Chronic dehydration leads to chronic adrenal management. This becomes adrenal fatigue or chronic fatigue.
Fatigue, anxiety and depression result.
Salt is your way back to health.
Salt brings moisture with it, into and out of the body.
Salt plus water equals hydration.
Hydration not oxygenation underpins our physiology. Zero oxygen required.
We breathe air not oxygen is the article I logically dismiss the gaseous exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide as a FRAUD. We are not using DRY gases of combustion and exhaust. Knowing the difference between air and oxygen is paramount.
I tip over a few sacred cows, curiosity is your way through.
Hey Jane! I've read your article. The thing is it's just not that simple.
what you say is true the issue is that there's exceptions to every single rule.
For example, the renal patient. Their kidneys do not filter electrolytes (among other things) as someone with a normal kidney or normal kidney function. So sodium levels have to be watched very carefully as well as fluids. They're already in renal failure. We cannot make that condition worse.
And cardiac patients I agree with what you're saying, but once you have cardiac issues like that, you cannot fluid overload a patient they will die. I worked intensive care units for a long time and I am holistic, but there's a point that people get to that it's critical the amount of sodium they get or don't get in the amount of fluid they get or don't get.
If their fluid shifts and becomes interstitial the normal procedure to give albumin because usually the albumin levels are low, not the sodium levels and we have to pull that fluid back into the vascular and then we have to diurese them. It's the only way to get the fluid out. We cannot overload them with sodium, especially if their sodium levels are already high. I understand when we look at Labs we're looking at what is in the blood.
But there are exceptions and one of the reasons I put the breathing method in, and there are many different breathing methods, is because to get fluid balanced and to get sodium balance takes a little bit of time and if someone's in a stressful situation where they're having anxiety or something, this technique will absolutely change their mindset and help them through that situation. They have to have something immediate.
Now will it correct the long-term problem no, of course not but we have to give them something to get them through and I have been in that position before and actually my fluid balance and sodium levels and every other lab, including hormonal- everything was within the normal limits
We could discuss what within normal limits mean but they're not normal for everybody and they need to be tightened down a little bit. I think they're too broad.
So really it's not one way or the other way there's many different ways, but we have to be very careful with certain patients and like I said there are exceptions to the rule. There's exceptions to every rule.
Thanks for your comment, I'm sure people will enjoy your article
I am not debating that Jane. I understand what you're saying.
But I'm just saying for people that are reading this back-and-forth that it's not black-and-white. They may not have healthy kidneys. They may not have healthy hearts if they don't they cannot do what you suggest because they're past that point they're at a point that it's so critical that it's life or death.
The intensive care units I worked at are places that people cone when nobody else could help them ...and disturbing the sodium, fluid balance and oxygen could cost them their life.
The drugs doctors prescribe are disturbing their hydration. They use drugs to block the RAAS. They use diuretics. They put folk on low salt diets. Everything the medical industry does interferes with hydration.
I'm writing to help people understand the dynamics at play.
The dynamics of moisture and the important role salt plays in leading moisture into and out of their body.
This information is currently missing from the discussion of health and healing.
I'm not handing out brochures in ICU.
I'm way up the road, talking to people well enough to be thinking critically about their health.
Jane, I actually used to work palliative care/hospice and I believe it anytime oxygen is given it has to be humidified.
also, someone who has high CO2 levels has to be very careful giving them any oxygen at all most of the time well in the ICU a lot of people are on ventilators, but say a step down unit for example .
You give somebody with COPD too much oxygen they'll stop breathing ... I've seen it. i've actually walked by patient's rooms in a step down unit and see them breathing so hard and they're not my patient but I go in the room anyway I look at them first and use my five senses and then I look at the monitors and then I speak to the patient because I don't know them and I start asking questions and the first one is do you have COPD or emphysema because some people go by one or the other they will not their head yes .
I will turn their oxygen down from freaking 4 L or even 3 L (sometimes as low as 2L) . I will turn the oxygen down to one.
The other thing is when it comes to breathing, and you probably already know this, but for those who may be reading these comments is there's a difference between oxygenation and ventilation ... a huge difference.
Someone's SAT monitor can show that their oxygen level levels are low- they may be anemic or they could have cold fingers or their ejection fraction may be low and it may not be picking it up or they could be in a dysrhythmia. there's too many factors to say it's one thing as most physicians do without looking into what is causing this. A lot of women wear finger polish. If they're my patient I tell him one finger finger nail polish is coming off of so to go to good saturation of oxygen, you have to have good circulation. The finger has to be warm and you cannot be anemic. Your red blood count has to be normal.
Ventilation is totally different.
Again, thanks for posting your articles here and people are welcome to go read them. You have some great information.
Hi Kathleen, you may find my article: How does salt restriction lead to heart dis-ease and fear based reactionary thinking? of value.
I link the adrenals with dehydration. Dehydration or low salt are the same condition. Hyponatremia is an emergency. All emergencies are managed by the adrenals. All the adrenocorticol hormones are deployed. Chronic dehydration leads to chronic adrenal management. This becomes adrenal fatigue or chronic fatigue.
Fatigue, anxiety and depression result.
Salt is your way back to health.
Salt brings moisture with it, into and out of the body.
Salt plus water equals hydration.
Hydration not oxygenation underpins our physiology. Zero oxygen required.
We breathe air not oxygen is the article I logically dismiss the gaseous exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide as a FRAUD. We are not using DRY gases of combustion and exhaust. Knowing the difference between air and oxygen is paramount.
I tip over a few sacred cows, curiosity is your way through.
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Hey Jane! I've read your article. The thing is it's just not that simple.
what you say is true the issue is that there's exceptions to every single rule.
For example, the renal patient. Their kidneys do not filter electrolytes (among other things) as someone with a normal kidney or normal kidney function. So sodium levels have to be watched very carefully as well as fluids. They're already in renal failure. We cannot make that condition worse.
And cardiac patients I agree with what you're saying, but once you have cardiac issues like that, you cannot fluid overload a patient they will die. I worked intensive care units for a long time and I am holistic, but there's a point that people get to that it's critical the amount of sodium they get or don't get in the amount of fluid they get or don't get.
If their fluid shifts and becomes interstitial the normal procedure to give albumin because usually the albumin levels are low, not the sodium levels and we have to pull that fluid back into the vascular and then we have to diurese them. It's the only way to get the fluid out. We cannot overload them with sodium, especially if their sodium levels are already high. I understand when we look at Labs we're looking at what is in the blood.
But there are exceptions and one of the reasons I put the breathing method in, and there are many different breathing methods, is because to get fluid balanced and to get sodium balance takes a little bit of time and if someone's in a stressful situation where they're having anxiety or something, this technique will absolutely change their mindset and help them through that situation. They have to have something immediate.
Now will it correct the long-term problem no, of course not but we have to give them something to get them through and I have been in that position before and actually my fluid balance and sodium levels and every other lab, including hormonal- everything was within the normal limits
We could discuss what within normal limits mean but they're not normal for everybody and they need to be tightened down a little bit. I think they're too broad.
So really it's not one way or the other way there's many different ways, but we have to be very careful with certain patients and like I said there are exceptions to the rule. There's exceptions to every rule.
Thanks for your comment, I'm sure people will enjoy your article
Hi Kathleen
Can you see how kidney fail because they are made to be salt conserves instead of salt excreters?
Working against their natural mode causes their demise.
The kidneys and lungs and adrenals are all maintaining hydration, along with support from the GIT.
I’m explaining the paradigm of oxidation must be changed to hydration for our physiology to be seen and n reality.
There is no exchange of dry gases occurring in the alveoli.
I am not debating that Jane. I understand what you're saying.
But I'm just saying for people that are reading this back-and-forth that it's not black-and-white. They may not have healthy kidneys. They may not have healthy hearts if they don't they cannot do what you suggest because they're past that point they're at a point that it's so critical that it's life or death.
The intensive care units I worked at are places that people cone when nobody else could help them ...and disturbing the sodium, fluid balance and oxygen could cost them their life.
The drugs doctors prescribe are disturbing their hydration. They use drugs to block the RAAS. They use diuretics. They put folk on low salt diets. Everything the medical industry does interferes with hydration.
I'm writing to help people understand the dynamics at play.
The dynamics of moisture and the important role salt plays in leading moisture into and out of their body.
This information is currently missing from the discussion of health and healing.
I'm not handing out brochures in ICU.
I'm way up the road, talking to people well enough to be thinking critically about their health.
You may like to read this teaching resource on the nature of oxygen.
https://substack.com/@jane333/note/c-72004599?r=ykfsh&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Jane, I actually used to work palliative care/hospice and I believe it anytime oxygen is given it has to be humidified.
also, someone who has high CO2 levels has to be very careful giving them any oxygen at all most of the time well in the ICU a lot of people are on ventilators, but say a step down unit for example .
You give somebody with COPD too much oxygen they'll stop breathing ... I've seen it. i've actually walked by patient's rooms in a step down unit and see them breathing so hard and they're not my patient but I go in the room anyway I look at them first and use my five senses and then I look at the monitors and then I speak to the patient because I don't know them and I start asking questions and the first one is do you have COPD or emphysema because some people go by one or the other they will not their head yes .
I will turn their oxygen down from freaking 4 L or even 3 L (sometimes as low as 2L) . I will turn the oxygen down to one.
The other thing is when it comes to breathing, and you probably already know this, but for those who may be reading these comments is there's a difference between oxygenation and ventilation ... a huge difference.
Someone's SAT monitor can show that their oxygen level levels are low- they may be anemic or they could have cold fingers or their ejection fraction may be low and it may not be picking it up or they could be in a dysrhythmia. there's too many factors to say it's one thing as most physicians do without looking into what is causing this. A lot of women wear finger polish. If they're my patient I tell him one finger finger nail polish is coming off of so to go to good saturation of oxygen, you have to have good circulation. The finger has to be warm and you cannot be anemic. Your red blood count has to be normal.
Ventilation is totally different.
Again, thanks for posting your articles here and people are welcome to go read them. You have some great information.