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Chapter Nine: Regulation of Plasma Osmolality

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Hypotentremia From Polydipsia

I was going to say I was a little confused when I read this kind of a sequence that says there's much creation of excess sodium or responsive mediated reduction in release of aldosterone. And then first you increase water intake and then it lowers the plasma osmolarity toward normal and then further expands the volume. So I guess my question is so expanding the volume, even though there is that reduction in aldosterone, the water intake is still increasing the volume in that moment. Yes. But I mean, water is volume is just not a lot of volume like what? Because two thirds of it is distributed so you don't see it. Technically, it's under you.

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