Studies Suggest Low Salt Diets Are Deadly

[greygoose]

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[Glynisrose]

I have always believed that a balanced diet was best and to ignore the 'fads' what is a no - no this week is a super food next!!

[greygoose in reply to Glynisrose]

Absolutely true.

[Pepekins]

We absolutely need salt. However Himalayan salt or another type of rock salt is preferable to the awful processed table salt you can get dirt cheap. We also need iodine ( a tiny amount is in this awful salt). Iodine used to be in bread once, most of us are deficient in iodine. Got from sea vegetable amongst other foods.

[greygoose in reply to Pepekins]

Yes, well, too much iodine can be as bad as too little. There is virtually no iodine in Himalayan, and a tiny amount in sea salt. Or else I wouldn't be using it!

[Pepekins in reply to greygoose]

You are right, there is very little in Himalayan and only a tiny amount in sea salt. Apparently in the 40's a little iodine was added to bread, as prior to that (especially in America) there was an epedemic of goitres. This small addition to bread virtually wiped out the goitre problem. However it has since been removed from bread and something much nastier added. It is difficult to get idoine from healthy food sources albeit just a tiny amount is required. Every cell does need trace amounts of iodine. We can mainly get it from sea vegetables, but often they are contaminated these days. Getting the balance right is a dilemma!

[greygoose in reply to Pepekins]

Not if you take thyroid hormone replacement, you are taking iodine.

[Pepekins]

Would that be Levo or Armour?

[greygoose in reply to Pepekins]

Both. There are four atoms of iodine on every molecule of T4 (that's why it's called T4). It is converted to T3 by removing one atom of iodine. That atom of iodine goes back into the blood and is recycled. Same thing when T3 is converted to T2, and T2 to T1. Iodine is recycled all the time in the body, that's why we need so little. But if you are on thyroid hormone replacement, you are taking in more all the time.

[Pepekins in reply to greygoose]

That is so interesting, thank you. So, are you saying, that we who don't have a thyroid gland and who are relying on either synthetic T4 or even Armour are taking in too much iodine, and should our levels be checked? I had always understood that we generally have too little these days.

[greygoose in reply to Pepekins]

If you have no thyroid gland then you need even less iodine than those that do.

I Don't know about too much iodine, excess is supposed to be excreted, but I somehow doubt that, given that my iodine levels are sky-high without taking any suppléments, just with the thyroid hormone replacement.

Levels should definately be checked, but I had to beg for mine to be checked. Doctors just Don't seem to like doing useful tests. lol

But, yes, there is a faction that is always going on about us not getting enough iodine. But they aren't talking about hypos already taking thyroid hormone replacement. It is never as simple as they make out!