Salty Food May Be a Culprit in Autoimmune Diseases

ScienceNOW ^ | 6 March 2013 | Mitch Leslie

[mazz44]

BS!!! Table Salt is washed with chlorine to bleach it white. Our bodies need sodium to function. Salt, in its natural form does not contribute to autoimmune disorders. Now, if they want to try to link the nitrites, phosphates and other flavoring’s, such as MSG, then they may have a case.

[neverdem]

Maybe Bloomboob got something right by accident! Maybe exacerbations of some autoimmune diseases, e.g. MS, can be associated with excess sodium chloride consumption.

FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list, or if you want on or off my combined microbiology/immunology ping list.

[acapesket]

Try minerals salt or pink sea salt. Iodization is the culprit , not the salt itself.

Nothing is better for you than a swim in a salty sea!

These idiots are nothing better than “Idiots”.

[svcw]

hum?
Interesting.
My doc says there is a direct correlation between the rise in thyroid problems and iodized salt reduction.
These studies are always interesting, the researchers set out to prove what they think is a problem and well find it.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Before refrigeration, food stabilization was by salt. Were these diseases prevalent hundreds or thousands of years ago?

[Valpal1]

I agree, how else to you explain the longevity it Asian cultures that have loads of salt fermented foods. Kimchi anyone?

I believe that some to many autoimmune diseases are sparked by various pathogens that try to disguise their dna by mimicking ours and eventually provoke an autoimmune response on the tissue it is hiding in and mimicking.

[Myrddin]

Healthy Japanese consume an average of 12 mg of iodine daily in their diets. That keeps the thyroid healthy. Iodized salt was invented to try to get enough iodine into our iodine depleted diets to prevent goiter. Most people don't get enough iodine in their diet. Consuming water with fluoride will strip the iodine from your thyroid hormone rending it inactive. That flubber around your mid section may be due low thyroid activity from inactivated thyroid hormone.

[acapesket]

Ur Doc gets his info from the CDC. Can we name one .thing they have gotten right lately? GMO’s from Monsanto. Laginex, spraying cold cuts with silicone to allegedly prevent “lysteria”, lightbulbs full of mercury and no mercury battery environmental disposal? After years of recycling, we are now just to throw batteries in the trash? What goes into water after all of the SHTF? We have been drinking fluoride for years...can someone show me the link to fluoride’s alleged safety?

Wake Up!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The "salt causes high blood pressure" scam is falling apart, so they have to manufacture a new crisis, just like the replaced global warming with climate change.

[svcw]

Not likely, she is rabid in healthy organic low gluten eating.
She is NOT the typical doc.

[metmom]

BS!!! Table Salt is washed with chlorine to bleach it white. Our bodies need sodium to function.

Salt is sodium chloride. It's property is to be white.

It is not *washed with chloride". When you put salt in water it dissolves. It cannot be *washed* to be bleached.

Salt, in its natural form does not contribute to autoimmune disorders.

What are the medical studies you performed which demonstrated this?

Now, if they want to try to link the nitrites, phosphates and other flavoring’s, such as MSG, then they may have a case.

Maybe, but then again, what are the studies you have done to link nitrites, phosphates and other flavorings to T cell activity?

[Yaelle]

What about natural sea salt on real foods, not processed crap?

[Mase]

This study might be more important if the mouse immune system was similar to that of humans. It isn't. I didn't read it in this article, but the mice used for this study were bred to develop MS. That seems unusual to me, and adds even more questions about reliability. I wonder if researchers have ever shown that people who develop MS, or suffer from other types of autoimmune disorders, are sensitive to salt. You'd think that would already be common knowledge...that is, if this study is credible.

[upsdriver]

Why did they not discuss potassium levels in regards to this study? Potassium helps excrete high levels of sodium from the body.

[Mase]

Now, if they want to try to link the nitrites, phosphates and other flavoring’s, such as MSG, then they may have a case.

I doubt it. By the way, nitrites and phosphates are not flavorings. You should also be aware that the average person consumes 10 times more glutamate from naturally occurring sources than they do from added sources. Your body cannot function without glutamate, and you probably have 3 or 4 lbs. of it inside you at this very moment.

[facedown]

Dang it, Mase. There you go again bringing science into a pseudo-scientific discussion. Party wrecker.

[piytar]

Bullish!t

[mazz44]

Absolutely correct, some of those same pathogens enter our bodies through the misguided use of vaccines. I know there is much disagreement, on this site, but vaccines have a dark side and may be the cause of modern day syndromes and immune distress which manifests itself in many seemingly uncontrollable forms.

[Fast Moving Angel]

So how much salt did they feed those mice, proportionally? They said they fed them the salt equivalent of a regular fast-food diet, which in a human would be high enough, but for the proportional weight of a mouse, it’d be like a human being force-fed several pounds of salt. Heck, that in and of itself probably killed off the mice. It’s like their tests of artificial sweeteners — it’s the equivalent of making the mice drink several gallons of coke at a sitting. Sorry, but I’m calling BS too.