#66 - Nature Wants Us to Be Fat (Dr. Casey Means & Dr. Richard Johnson)
LEVELS – A Whole New Level
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How Salt and Osmolality Can Drive Obesity
When you get dehydrated, your osmolarity goes up in your blood. And that is another trigger of the poleol pathway. So it will lead to fruit dose production. In animals, if we dehydrated, they start making fruit dose. The way we can create mild dehydration in animals, a very easy way, is to give salt. When you eat salty food and you get thirsty, it's because the osmolarities’ gone up in yourBlood that triggers thirst,. Because your salt concentrations are high. That actually is activating this pathway to make fruit dose. We're paring process food with sedentary behaviour. Maybe anet another iys, if we can
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