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Body Fluids and Hydration Status

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

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How Does Dehydration Affect the Body?

Dehydration is just water loss relative to intake. So that's dehydration is tenicity, so the concentration of our fluids. A hypertonic solution will bathe the cell in more solutes than is in the cell and therefore is going to pull water out of the cell, dehydrating the cell. But dehydration can occur a number of different ways through sweating, through diarrhea, through vomiting, through many things. What Matt and I thought would be best is to give you some scenarios, some case studies, and talk about how does this alter or affect the body? What do you reckon, Matt? Do you reckon that's the way to go? We can do that. Yeah.

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