Medical researcher, Dr James DiNicolantonio, blows the lid off the advise we should all be on a low salt diet to avoid high blood pressure.

James has done extensive study on the research behind why nutritional guidelines say we should all try avoid excess salt in our diet.

What he has found is the opposite to what traditional advise is given. That is he found out very few people get significantly lower blood pressure on a low salt diet.

This means if you are avoiding adding salt to your food or minimising the amount of salt you cook food with then you can stop doing that.

James highlights the big worry that getting too little salt in your diet can cause a raised heart rate. This means your cardiovascular system is working harder than it should by being on a low salt diet.

This is only one bad side-effect from not getting enough sodium in your diet.

Another very intersting part he shared was for people on a low carb high fat diet or keto diet. These people need to take eve more salt as their bodies are naturally getting rid of sodium by being on the diet.

Then there is coffee and tea drinking effect on our kidneys excreting more salt. Again if you drink coffee you need more salt.

CONCLUSIONS:
Reduced sodium excretion is associated with increased mortality in a sample of community-dwelling older people, especially among the frail participants. High levels of sodium excretion are not associated with adverse outcomes in this population; therefore, sodium restriction might not be beneficial in older people.

Now SIX studies using 24-hr urines (reference method) to assess sodium found an inverse or J-shaped assoc w death or CVD:
1) Lelli 2018 J Am Med Dir Assoc
2) Ekinci 2011 Diab Care
3) Stolarz-Skrzypek 2011 JAMA
4) Alderman 1995 Hypertens
5) Thomas 2011 Diab Care
6) Mills 2016 JAMA

Below is the scientific evidence questioning/contradicting recommendations that a “lower is better” recommendation on sodium is advisable for the general population.
At least five separate scientific teams published in major peer-reviewed journals, in addition to a 2013 review by the U.S. Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences) all concluded that lowering salt below a moderate amount increased the risk of disease and death
The policy of “lower-is-better” is therefore clearly not evidence-based.
Population-wide policies must be backed by strong and consistent scientific evidence. That is not the case with salt.

Leaders in salt debate say: Let's do a proper clinical trial to resolve dispute in the field over optimal level of salt intake. My comment: how about suspending current policy until answer is known, esp. re: kids for whom there is zero data

If you know the benefits of MAGNESIUM then appreciate the benefits of SODIUM

When you are deficient in SODIUM

1.) Mg and Ca get pulled from bone leading to NEGATIVE Mg/Ca balance https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12953799/ …
2.) Mg and Ca are lost in sweat to conserve Na https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/1 ... %20balance …

“Reduction of serum sodium induced gait disturbances, cognitive impairment, elevated extracellular glutamate in the hippocampus and decreased glutamate uptake by astrocytes...these results suggest hyponatremia in humans may cause cognitive impairment” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26376860/ …

The adverse effects of salt restriction

1.) Increased insulin levels
2.) Increased VLDL and apoB
3.) Increased vascular resistance

Sounds like a recipe for heart disease to me...

Helle on hemmotellut Suomea koko alkukesän, ja juhannukseksi on ennustettu monin paikoin lämmintä säätä. Tiedossa on siis hikisiä kesäpäiviä.

Hien mukana ihminen menettää sekä vettä että suoloja. Pitäisikö siis helteillä syödä enemmän suolaa?
Ei, sanoo THL:n tutkimus­päällikkö Iris Erlund.

”Suoma­laiset saavat suolaa muutenkin aivan liikaa”, hän sanoo.