Component
Renal free-water clearance
Renal free-water clearance. Species, exposure and limitations are retained in each linked claim.
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
How nutrients influence it
Every nutrient with a recorded effect on this component, credited to the nutrient that acted rather than the chapter that recorded it. Open a nutrient to see the findings and the conditions they were measured under.
Other things that act on it
Enzymes, hormones, genes, and other components with a recorded effect. These are not nutrients, so they do not count toward the arrows above. Each finding names the chapter that recorded it.
How nutrients reach it in more than one step
Chains of two or more recorded steps that end here, grouped by the nutrient they start from. Each step is a separate finding, so a chain is a route a mechanism could take, not proof that it does.
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What it does
Every recorded relationship this component is part of, grouped by its role. Plain wording comes first; the technical statement follows.
What acts on it
The 6-g/day salt increase reduced free-water clearance while increasing urine osmolyte excretion.
Experimental context and source evidence
- evidence_span
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- experimental_model
- Two controlled confinement studies lasting 105 and 205 days, totaling 10 men
- exposure
- 6, 9 and 12 g/day salt; other nutrients held constant
- limitations
- Small all-male long-duration study; reduced free-water clearance is not creation of water. Do not extrapolate to acute salt ingestion, all populations or immune effects.
- nutrient_topic
- Sodium research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Sodium
- organism
- Human healthy men
- plain_language
- The kidneys adjusted water conservation during sustained salt exposure.
- primary_references
- [sodium-p28414302] Increased salt consumption induces body water conservation and decreases fluid intake. (2017). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28414302/ DOI: 10.1172/jci88530
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Whole-body water and osmolyte balance
Sodium: gradients, nutrient transport, fluid regulation and loss states (2026-09-17) · lines 1136–1147
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Two controlled confinement studies lasting 105 and 205 days, totaling 10 men · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### sodium-salt-water-clearance The 6-g/day salt increase reduced free-water clearance while increasing urine osmolyte excretion. Condition category: normal nutrient_topic: Sodium research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. plain_language: The kidneys adjusted water conservation during sustained salt exposure. organism: Human healthy men tissue_or_cell_type: Whole-body water and osmolyte balance experimental_model: Two controlled confinement studies lasting 105 and 205 days, totaling 10 men limitations: Small all-male long-duration study; reduced free-water clearance is not creation of water. Do not extrapolate to acute salt ingestion, all populations or immune effects. exposure: 6, 9 and 12 g/day salt; other nutrients held constant evidence_span: {"source_cache": "artifacts/sodium-research/28414302.abstract.txt", "locator": "Exact primary indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "099d2bd468b387701a756371dde0732e2eba2b5d15d02948a99fc96c3df3046d", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 2118, "text_sha256": "099d2bd468b387701a756371dde0732e2eba2b5d15d02948a99fc96c3df3046d"} [sodium-p28414302] Increased salt consumption induces body water conservation and decreases fluid intake. (2017). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28414302/ DOI: 10.1172/jci88530
Complete structured claim and evidence
The events it takes part in
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Situations it appears in
Low-supply and faulty-machinery situations recorded in the chapters where this component plays a part.
In the sources
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Open hypotheses
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This is a research prototype built from draft material. It is not medical advice, and its statements still await verification against the original studies.