Beyond drinking water, what are some ways to flush excess sodium?

Answer 1

2 Tablespoons (1 fluid ounce) fresh-squeezed lemon or lime juice (approx. ½ lemon),

2 Tablespoons (1 fluid ounce) organic Grade B maple syrup, not maple-flavored sugar syrup or syrup from companies that use formaldehyde to harvest their syrup,

1/10 Teaspoon or more cayenne pepper (hot red pepper), and

1 Cup (8 fluid ounces) purified or spring water, NOT fluoridated water.

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Answer 2

The first thing you need to do is to decide whether or not you truly have excess sodium. Do you have excess weight or swelling? Do you have edema (swelling of the lower legs)?

Humans need a certain amount of sodium for their cells to function properly. What specific symptoms do you have to make you think you need to flush excess sodium? Perhaps you ate something salty and want to rid yourself of that excess. If that's all it is, just stay away from salty foods and your body will adjust it's own level of sodium.

Unless you know for certain that you do have excess sodium, and/or what is causing it, it's difficult to know what to do.

Under that banner I would say:
Don't eat salty foods, such as, chips, ham, deli items, etc. Any food industry prepared food has sodium, many have excess sodium (learn to read labels for the sodium level in each item you buy).

To avoid excess sodium from outside sources, you'll have to prepare your food "from scratch," so to speak. That is, buy fresh fruit, vegetables and meat and prepare your meals with very little salt added. The use of seasoning herbs and spices add heightened flavor to home cooking.

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It contains vitamins and herbs to help you support fluid balance.

Answer 3

How do you know you have excess sodium? Do you have high blood pressure and you want to restrict your intake of sodium? That is different than trying to eliminate sodium from your body.
Be very careful, drinking too much water can actually lower your sodium too much by diluting your blood, causing severe metabolic imbalance. This can adversely affect your brain, heart and kidneys. Your body knows what it's doing. Leave it alone.

Answer 4

Wellll, other than not eating out or reading everything you are going to buy for sodium content and thereby limiting it to 500 to 2000 MGS a day; the next best thing is, of course, water consumption. If you have kidney issues or other dietary concerns you MUST contain your salt intake as advised. I watched my father-in-law die of renal failure and it is NOT a pretty way to go...

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Answer 5

The chemical hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) works in a hurry. It is available by prescription and it's main use is to lower sodium levels to control blood pressure.

Answer 6

None as far as I know, water is the only one. The body will do it on its own (assuming that there is noithing wrong with the sodium control mechanisms) eventually.

Answer 7

Try taking a vitamin B complex. The B6 vitamin helps with water retention, but it's better for you to take a complex with all the B vitamins. It's better to take with food and will turn your pee bright yellow, but it works great.

Answer 8

soy milk.