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Salt/Sodium as a performance and health enhancer?
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<blockquote data-quote="Guided_by_Voices" data-source="post: 143968" data-attributes="member: 15235"><p>A few tidbits:</p><p></p><p>- Low potassium is a much bigger issue for most people than high salt, and with much greater consequences. Sodium and potassium must be balanced.</p><p>- Low sodium can cause high blood pressure. Suppversity has posts on this I believe</p><p>- The reduction in BP from restricting salt is a rounding error in comparison to the reduction that comes from major fat loss and resolution of CVD drivers (e.g. high, blood sure, high insulin). It is also not clear that the mechanism by which lowering sodium reduces BP is of value.</p><p>- The book The Salt Fix is a good read for people interested in the history of salt, and there are many free podcasts available with the author.</p><p>- Upping one's salt intake when heavy sweating is expected (e.g. sauna, outdoor labor in the heat) is worth investigating</p><p>- High salt is unlikely to kill you but low salt definitely will. I seem to remember reading that heat stroke deaths are actually due to low salt. Worth investigating if this is a risk for you.</p><p>- It is fairly easy for an active person eating Paleo to get too little salt/sodium. I was in this camp before I discovered that I was at serious risk of low salt intake.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guided_by_Voices, post: 143968, member: 15235"] A few tidbits: - Low potassium is a much bigger issue for most people than high salt, and with much greater consequences. Sodium and potassium must be balanced. - Low sodium can cause high blood pressure. Suppversity has posts on this I believe - The reduction in BP from restricting salt is a rounding error in comparison to the reduction that comes from major fat loss and resolution of CVD drivers (e.g. high, blood sure, high insulin). It is also not clear that the mechanism by which lowering sodium reduces BP is of value. - The book The Salt Fix is a good read for people interested in the history of salt, and there are many free podcasts available with the author. - Upping one's salt intake when heavy sweating is expected (e.g. sauna, outdoor labor in the heat) is worth investigating - High salt is unlikely to kill you but low salt definitely will. I seem to remember reading that heat stroke deaths are actually due to low salt. Worth investigating if this is a risk for you. - It is fairly easy for an active person eating Paleo to get too little salt/sodium. I was in this camp before I discovered that I was at serious risk of low salt intake. [/QUOTE]
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