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[Optimal vs. Normal Health] Why Normal Reference Ranges Will Not Lead You to Optimal Health w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Travis Mash and Dan Garner Barbell Shrugged #676

Barbell Shrugged

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Sodium and Potassium Are Your Canary in the Cold Mine

The sodium to potassium ratio is one of the most evidence-based ways you can actually look at adrenal function. Aldosterone does a lot of cool stuff, but it's also a mineral corticoid, mineral as in electrolytes corticoid as in hormone coming from the adrenal glands. It's a huge player in the regulation of electrolyte status. Many answers that are inefficient in regulating them have many found within adrenal function through the mineral corticoids.

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