You never hear much about 'spontaneous combustion ' anymore, where people just burst into flames while sitting in their chair

@NativePortlander1970 good theory -yours

@NativePortlander1970 How does the human body isolate metallic sodium from its compounds, to such an extent it will ignite in bodily fluids?

@ArishMell I wondered about that part of that theory too but am not qualified to really question- thanks for the inquiry line

@atlantic59 Well, it doesn't, basically, but does use sodium and potassium ions.

@ArishMell again, I don't know how they could burn up. If I drank so much alcohol that my blood stream was flowing with it, I would die from poisoning before I would burst into flames but what do we really know when the human body may work differently for certain individuals under unique circumstances. Whether this is close to relevant, I had a girlfriend back in the early nineties who had a co-worker who was so addicted to tanning beds that when he suddely died, it was said that he cooked himself from the insides..

That sounds ridiculous cause his outsides should have cooked first and he would just have extreme sun burn, but who knows. Not I for sure

@ArishMell The kidneys, concentrating sodium is how they draw water from the blood to excrete waste.

@NativePortlander1970 I would think a sodium compound, not the metal. That reacts with water to create sodium hydroxide.