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Drinking this mineral water makes you pee out more salt and less calcium — which might help protect your bones and kidneys.

Evidence Quality Assessment

Claim Status

appropriately stated

Study Design Support

Design supports claim

Appropriate Language Strength

association

Can only show association/correlation

Assessment Explanation

The claim accurately reflects the observed changes without implying causation beyond the data. 'Increases' and 'decreases' are appropriate for descriptive outcomes in an RCT.

Gold Standard Evidence Needed

According to GRADE and EBM methodology, here is what ideal scientific evidence would look like to definitively prove or disprove this specific claim, ordered from strongest to weakest evidence.

Evidence from Studies

Supporting (1)

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Blood Pressure Stability and Plasma Aldosterone Reduction: The Effects of a Sodium and Bicarbonate-Rich Water - A Randomized Controlled Intervention Study

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2024 Dec

People who drank this special mineral water with lots of sodium and bicarbonate for a month got more sodium out in their urine and less calcium — just like the claim said.

Contradicting (0)

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No contradicting evidence found

Source Study

Blood Pressure Stability and Plasma Aldosterone Reduction: The Effects of a Sodium and Bicarbonate-Rich Water - A Randomized Controlled Intervention Study

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DOI: 10.1080/08037051.2023.2291411

Similar Assertions

Drinking a special kind of mineral water with lots of sodium and bicarbonate for a month doesn’t raise your blood pressure, even though you’re taking in more salt than usual.

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Even though your body starts peeing out more salt, it doesn’t change how much aldosterone hormone you make — meaning these two processes work independently.

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Drinking this special mineral water makes your body produce less of a hormone called aldosterone, which helps control blood pressure — and this effect is stronger than with regular mineral water.

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Even though people urinate out more salt after drinking this mineral water, their blood pressure doesn’t go up — meaning the body’s salt removal system works fine without raising BP.

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If you eat a lot of salt—like 18 grams a day for 10 days—your body will flush out more salt in your urine and also have a bit more salt in your blood, which proves you actually ate the salty food they gave you.

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