Dehydration, hypoglycemia, aldosterone & cortisol

[adreno]

Arginine is a well known precursor of NO @MeSci

 

[MeSci]

Arginine is a well known precursor of NO @MeSci

It's also a component of vasopressin, hence a connection with polyuria?

This Wikipedia article refers to a number of species differences with regard to vasopressin. Such differences occur in a wide range of biomolecules - a major reason for the poor predictive power of non-human animal experiments for humans.

Sometimes the results agree; sometimes they don't, so we are in effect no wiser after the animal research than we were before it.

 

[Violeta]

So the frequent urination could be caused by either low aldosterone or low arginine vasopressin. Frequent urination caused by low aldosterone would cause salt wasting and low salt levels. But I think frequent urination caused by vasopressin causes high salt levels with low potassium levels because the kidneys

 

[MeSci]

So the frequent urination could be caused by either low aldosterone or low arginine vasopressin. Frequent urination caused by low aldosterone would cause salt wasting and low salt levels. But I think frequent urination caused by vasopressin causes high salt levels with low potassium levels because the kidneys

Yes - aldosterone increases retention of sodium and water, whereas vasopressin mainly increases retention of water.

 

[picante]

Please le t me know if you can make any sense out of this
http://www.diabetes-epidemic.com/blog1/-functional-hypoglycemia-clinical-fact-or-fiction

I've been struggling with that article because his English is so damn ambiguous. Especially stuff like this:

The lowered glucose levels in hypoglycemic range occur before the two-hour postglucose load.

Gaaaah! Does he mean before the two-hour mark after glucose loading???? What he actually said was that two hours after giving glucose they "load" something. The hypoglycemia occurs before that. Sheeeeeesh.

Anyway. I'm wondering about this:

I found an insulin test from 2009 as well. The post-prandial insulin was measured in the noon saliva sample of a 24-hour cortisol test. No doubt I followed instructions and had a carby meal an hour before.
Fasting ˂3 [3-12 uIU/mL]
Post-prandial ˂3 [5-20 uIU/mL]

Those are saliva measurements. Are they going to be low when blood glucose is low?

And this:

My blood glucose is always 60 when I'm fasting, and usually 80 when I've had something to eat before going to the lab (say, 90-120 minutes before). It has been this way for as long as I've been getting tests (20 years).

So does my blood glucose ever go up? I ask because I've never seen a reading above 80, even after eating. Granted, I don't do glucose loading at home, LOL.

All these articles on hypoglycemia talk about people nodding off an hour or more after eating. I start feeling drugged while eating or immediately after. Drugged as in Dorothy in the poppy field. Is this acetaldehyde? I deduced that it can't possibly be high histamine, because that's an awake hormone. It wakes you up. Antihistamines put you to sleep.