Can caffeine act like a diuretic? Does it deplete the body of important nutrien!
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A diuretic is any drug that elevates the rate of bodily urine excretion. Diuretics also decrease the extracellular fluid (ECF) volume, and are primarily used to produce a negative extracellular fluid balance. Caffeine, cranberry juice and alcohol are all weak diuretics.
In medicine, diuretics are used to treat heart failure, liver cirrhosis, hypertension and certain kidney diseases.Diuretics alleviate the symptoms of these diseases by causing sodium and water loss through the urine. As urine is produced by the kidneys ,sodium and water which cause edema related to the disease move into the blood to replace the volume lost as urine,thereby reducing the pathological edema.Some diuretics, such as acetazolamide,help to make the urine more alkaline and are helpful in increasing excretion of substances such as aspirin in cases of drug overdose or poisoning.
The antihypertensive actions of some diuretics ,thiazides and loop diuretics in particular are independent of their diuretic effect. That is,the reduction in blood pressure is not due to decreased blood volume resulting from increased urine production, but occurs through other mechanisms and at lower doses than that required to produce diuresis.Indapamide was specifically designed with this is mind, and has a larger therapeutic window for hypertension (without pronounced diuresis)than most other diuretics.
Chemically, diuretics are a diverse group of compounds that either stimulate or inhibit various hormones that naturally occur in the body to regulate urine production by the kidneys.
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I don't think it's a diuretic, but tea is.
Caffeine can dehydrate you though.
yes and I don't know
Caffine IS in fact a diuretic. But don't deny yourself of a good cup of coffee or that glass of soda. Make sure you're drinking 32ozs of water every day.
Yes it is a natural diuretic and can dehydrate you.
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Yes it can. It also depletes your body of water. You can still get dehydrated if you are drinking caffeinated drinks because the caffeine keeps your body from absorbing the water.
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