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...antis make much of the fact that AB-57 -- a dilute solution of ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, a fungicide and gelling agent in water -- has been used for cleaning stone. But on stone it is left for between one and 24 hours and is strengthened by the disodium salt of EDTA, a substance that aids in the removal of calcium compounds; on the Sistine frescoes it is used in a weak solution, in varying applications lasting at most three minutes. It is an efficient solvent but a bland reagent. The fear that the cleaning has taken off any of Michelangelo...
...RACE, blood levels of nitrogen and protein waste products--and those of potassium, sodium and other substances not normally found there--are rising. Rusch knows too well what that feels like. "You're just in this state of slow deterioration, and you're doing everything you can to buy time," she says. "You can't recover until you stop." Even then, say exercise physiologists, the body doesn't always bounce back completely. Ultra-athletes may be more susceptible to developing arthritis and fractures when they are older, and their muscles may not recover as quickly from tears and bruises. Still...
...study, published April 14 in the New England Journal of Medicine, monitored the sodium levels of 488 runners in the 2002 marathon by analyzing their blood samples from before and after the race...
...researchers found that 13 percent suffered from hyponatremia, a condition characterized by excess water in the blood, which causes sodium levels to fall. Water then moves to areas of higher sodium content in the body, causing cells to swell...
...SODIUM For the first time, the government recommends a target for salt intake--no more than 1 tsp. a day--to keep blood pressure from rising...