Why RAMEN could land you in the ER 😳

[0:00]Eating Buldak noodles sent her to the ER. While she is in the ER because of kidney stones and not going to lie, I had to look up what Buldak noodles were. It's these things and honestly, looks like some delicious ramen. So then I saw nutrition facts and there's 1.6 grams of salt in there. That's 71% of daily value and that's per serving which is a fifth of a package. Who would eat just a fifth of a package? Nobody. Now here's where it gets interesting. This is kidney physiology, super complicated, really only kidney doctors truly understand this. But let me boil this down for you. The more sodium that's going to your kidney, the more calcium has to be excreted, those two are coupled. So the more sodium, the more calcium gets excreted into your ureters and calcium clumps up into a ball, you get calcium kidney stone. That's exactly what happened to her. If you want to avoid having a kidney stone, a diet low in sodium and high in calcium has actually been shown to reduce the risk of kidney stones.