Comment by cobbzilla
6 months ago
I recently learned that the inverse of thirst is called hyponatremic craving. This is when you have too much water and your body craves salt.
It ought to have a better word! “I’m feeling salty” doesn’t work!
6 months ago
I recently learned that the inverse of thirst is called hyponatremic craving. This is when you have too much water and your body craves salt.
It ought to have a better word! “I’m feeling salty” doesn’t work!
That was one part of the article I found questionable- "If the body needs salt, those chips will cause a surge of pleasurable dopamine to flood the brain. If the body doesn’t need salt, that dopamine drip disappears"
Surely this second part is false? Most of us have got used to high levels of salt in modern diets, and prefer the taste of salty things even when we've had way more sodium than we need.