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When you sweat a lot the water content of your blood can drop. Your cells have to maintain a certain level of water and salt in order to function properly. Which systems work together to help maintain homeostasis.

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There are key organs and system that assist in ensuring the body maintains homeostasis in the case of water-salt balance.

The excretory system: When one sweats, a lot of water content of the blood can drop (this is what causes the individual to be thirsty). In order to maintain a certain water-salt balance, the excretory system passes some salt out of the body in the form of urine (this is the reason the urine is usually yellowish but small in volume during the summer).

Endocrine system: When water content of the blood drops, vasopressin (also called antidiuretic hormone) is released into the bloodstream stimulating the kidneys to conserve water and release less urine (as said earlier). However, if the body is hydrated, less vasopressin is released and more water is passed in the urine.

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