Salt restrictions can kill you!
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This one is near and dear to me.
This one goes back and forth.
- Salt causes high blood pressure
- Salt doesn’t cause high blood pressure
- Salt causes higher blood pressure if you have high blood pressure issues.
etc..
Somewhere the truth lives.
“Salt restriction doesn’t seem to help change the blood pressures changes we have through the day.”
Yep, Dr. Berry has been quite clear on this. And, in fact, there are only 2 ways to really endanger yourself with salt:
1) Force-feed it to yourself by using far more than needed to make food taste good.
2) Eliminate it to the level that is currently recommended, or less.
Eating the amount needed to make food taste good (roughly two to three times the recommended amount) pretty much gives us the ideal level of salt...which makes sense or humans wouldn’t be alive today as all of these ‘medical experts’ telling us to not eat salt were not around for the first 99.99% of human history.
Idk, reducing salt really helps lower my blood pressure. I’m not religious about it though.
SAlt restriction may not lower blood pressure, but too much salt ( sodium ) can spike it. Been monitoring my BP daily after stroke. Systolic was averaging about 110 for 2 weeks. One night it jumped to 160. Turns out it was BBQ sauce that did it. Didn’t realize how much sodium is in that and ketchup. 2 teaspoons contained 300mg. I must have had at least 1800mg.
I know this for myself having tried cutting back sodium intake dramatically for no effect. They have been telling us for decades to reduce salt intake to reduce blood pressure while knowing that is effective in a small percentage of cases. They argue that that small percentage who see an improvement is a reason to give everyone the same instructions. Insanity.
The real cause of high blood pressure seems to be insulin resistance for most people. The way to fix that is to go to a low carb diet with intermittent fasting. Worked fantastic for me.
Doctors seem to think a low carb diet with intermittent fasting is not possible or some kind of heroic act of will power. You know what takes heroic will power? Getting up from a meal still hungry because you are counting calories trying to lose weight. I eat until full when I eat, I just restrict the times I eat, don’t eat carbs and make sure I get a lot of healthy natural fat (no vegetable oils except EVOO).
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In the event these people actually sweat, they should lick their arm. It will taste salty. The body has always been able to easily rid itself of excess salt.
Thanks C.M.! I do need to watch BP, but always thought it had more to do with Sodium/Potassium levels. (It will rise if I overdose on Salt though!)