Nutrition · Module 10 · Water and major minerals

Water and Major Minerals Lab

Run a fluid balance simulator and a lifetime bone bank, practise sodium, calcium and fluid calculations with animated worked solutions, sort the big ideas and work through real-life cases. Nothing here is graded.

Part 1: Fluid Balance Simulator

Sweat, urine and breath take water out; drinks put it back. Thirst and ADH respond to the balance.
Inside cells Between cells Plasma Sweat Sodium ADH
Live readouts
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A teaching model, not a personal prescription. Sweat rate rises with activity and heat (about 0.1 to 1.6 L per hour here). Sweat is treated as carrying about 40 mmol of sodium per litre and the sports drink about 20 mmol per litre (about 460 mg). The kidneys can clear extra water only slowly during exercise. Body water starts at 60% of body weight, and 1 L of water is treated as 1 kg. Blood sodium is estimated from total body water and sodium. One simulated hour passes about every 5 seconds.