00:01
In order to answer this question, let's talk about the hematocrit.
00:03
He says, dehydration would.
00:05
Remember that your blood, if this is your blood, for example, in the blood you have plasma, that is the liquid part of the blood, and you also have, like, the solid part that consists of the rbcs, for example, or other cells.
00:22
So, this plasma, as i told you, contains water, the water part of the blood, okay? and the cells involve the solid part.
00:33
When you have the hematocrit, it accounts for all of the solid part of the blood, the solid part of the blood, okay? so if you have dehydration, then you're going to lose water.
00:48
So you're also going to lose plasma, because plasma contains water, right? so if you lose plasma, then all of the solid part of your blood are going to concentrate and are going to get together because it is like if you have a water of for a glass of water and you have a lot of sugar here.
01:07
Okay, a lot of sugar...