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Remember that the average body NEEDS 6gm of salt a day and that it's insulin, not sodium that drives hypertension. Insulin hangs on to sodium, sodium increases blood volume which drives up blood pressure and thus elevates pressure on the kidneys. Typical of anyone with T2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. A normal healthy individual can consume just about any amount of salt (difficult to do) and will merely excrete the excess as a normal bodily function.

A largely hidden benefit of LCHF.

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help2020

Amazing. What’s the source of this information please, out of interest? Only asking because I want to share this with those non-believers and they will ask! ☺️

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bigleg in reply tohelp2020

Dr James DiNicolantonio's book, The Salt Fix, is highly acclaimed: thesaltfix.com/. He is interviewed by Steve Bennet in Episode 19 of his Fat and Furious series of interviews: youtube.com/watch?v=jZxeVdC... . Title of the episode: "Is Salt Good or Bad for Me?"

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help2020 in reply tobigleg

Excellent. Thank you bigleg

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That "we're all eating too much salt!" nonsense drives me mad. As you said it's pretty hard to eat too much salt, and people are at far higher risk from consuming too little (because your body can't compensate for it, or at least can only do so up to a point).

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Cosmo501

Thank-you. A timely reminder for me. I do salt my food, but often hold back... still my brain battling to comprehend these changes I'm making after a lifetime of low fat no salt brainwashing.

After reading your post, I went and made myself a lovely cup of green tea and added some good quality pink salt. Delicious.

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sunny369

interesting, I did notice that when I was eating lchf and had given up sugar my blood pressure improved considerably. When I lapsed into old bad habits my blood pressure went up again.

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