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Episode 5 - Contraction Alkalosis

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The Importance of Hydroxychloric Acid in Metabolic Alkalosis

One is red and angiotensin-aldosterone, that gets turned on in these volume-depleted states as a compensatory mechanism. That should also lead to retention of, or excretion of acid. And so they get metabolic alkalosis too. Because I think they're kind of over driving that distal acid excretion like you were talking about. Absolutely. No doubt about it.

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