Consuming Salt, Consuming More Salt Does Not Make You Drink More, But Quite Opposite

by Harvey Karp

Consuming More Salt does not Make You Drink More, but Quite the Opposite

Salt is the key to regulating body fluids, and its ingestion has always been associated with a higher consumption of fluids.

Although this is the case for the first 24 hours after ingestion, an investigation published recently in the Journal of Clinical Investigation says that consuming more salt does not make you drink more, but the it reduces the intake of fluids.

10 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 10, 2017

About the author

Dr. Harvey Karp is a nationally renowned pediatrician and child development specialist. He is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine. Over the past 30 years, he has taught thousands of parents, from working moms to superstars like Madonna, Michelle Pfeiffer and Pierce Brosnan his secrets for making children happy.

Dr. Karp has committed his full-time efforts to writing, lecturing and education. He now travels extensively across America and around the world lecturing the medical community and the public about how to use his innovative discoveries to help parents successfully meet the needs of their young children.