Manánguri on Nostr: Fun fact: Your body users the sodium molecules from the salt you eat in the cores of ...
Fun fact: Your body users the sodium molecules from the salt you eat in the cores of your nerve cells where it carries the electrical impulses that power your body.
Obviously if you ate raw sodium you'd get serious chemical burns. Having chlorine bond to the sodium stabilizes it and makes it possible for all living things on this planet to get the sodium they need to live. If humans don't get enough, they will die. Very painfully. Their bodies twist up from extreme cramping.
Chemically speaking, essential nutrients are nothing more than highly reactive molecules. To little or to much of any of them them, will be bad for you.
Obviously if you ate raw sodium you'd get serious chemical burns. Having chlorine bond to the sodium stabilizes it and makes it possible for all living things on this planet to get the sodium they need to live. If humans don't get enough, they will die. Very painfully. Their bodies twist up from extreme cramping.
Chemically speaking, essential nutrients are nothing more than highly reactive molecules. To little or to much of any of them them, will be bad for you.