«What aldosterone does is it tells the kidneys to retain sodium and excrete potassium, but
if aldosterone is low, it may tend to excrete sodium and retain potassium.
What aldosterone does is it tells the kidneys to retain sodium and excrete potassium, but
if aldosterone is low, then they tend to excrete sodium and retain potassium, and with sodium will always follow, water will always follow it.
Not exact matches
If you are struggling with maintaining a healthy blood pressure, and also have changes in blood potassium levels, you may want to talk to your doctor about
aldosterone.
Bryan: Yup, and usually the pattern is that when they have low
aldosterone like that, their pattern tends to be towards low blood pressure, they tend to have what's called orthostatic hypotension, which means they get dizzy
if they stand up too quickly, and they urinate a lot, and their blood chemistry will typically show patterns of dehydration, but by adding sea salt, what typically happens is it's great.
And in the last marker, I just want to point out to you that
aldosterone there, that's like a marker down, I read that one, it was really interesting because your blood chemistry, or a previous one, showed an alteration in sodium and potassium, I won't get to the details unless you want me to, but you usually see that pattern in sodium and potassium on you
if you have low cortisol, low cortisol, low
aldosterone.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Except
if it's low —
if it's low, it'll bring it up much higher because you know, let's say your adrenals are really key at holding on to minerals and
if you're decreasing your mineral retention because the
aldosterone that your adrenals make is low because of the adrenal dysfunction that's happening, you will pee out more minerals and that — that's important for regulating blood pressure and that's also important for their sodium potassium pumps, so
if we don't have enough high quality sodium, those sodium potassium pumps kinda that creates the gradient and how things go in and out of the cell, now
if don't have adequate sodium on board, that can definitely be a stressor for the body.
If 11β - HSD ratios are elevated, hyperproduction of
aldosterone will be detectable by ACTH - stimulated venous sampling.147
If the body is unable to overcome the
aldosterone and epinephrine response, then the blood pressure is elevated.
If our adrenals aren't functioning well and
aldosterone levels fall, we can secrete more sodium, leading to salt cravings.
I am also wondering
if supplementing with
aldosterone would help.
If a person has POTS due to extreme Adrenal Fatigue and they drink a lot of water without knowing that their sodium levels are out of balance due to low levels of
aldosterone and very low blood pressure, it's not a recommendation to make.
Aldosterone does little to benefit the body
if there is not enough salt in one's system.
If the kidney is working properly, and there is enough
aldosterone, tissue trauma alone rarely leads to hyperkalemia.
If the medication used to treat Cushing's disease inadvertently suppresses too much adrenal gland activity, deficiency of cortisol and
aldosterone may result.
If your dog has typical Addison's disease, where both
aldosterone and cortisol are deficient, most veterinarians will stabilize the pets with monthly injections of desoxycorticosterone pivalate (DOCP).
If your dog is diagnosed with Addison's, she may need to be on a lifelong replacement of both cortisol and
aldosterone.