I've just started reading this book - The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got it All Wrong and How Eating More Might Save Your Life any one used this and got any results? Some years ago I got bronchitis, was serious for some time, and also diagnosed with high BP. After that I've been working on cutting out salt as much as possible, but no results and then I find this. 'Dr DiNicolantonio takes us away from hype and hyperbole to a place of rationality as it relates to salt. This extensively researched text lets us finally erase the guilt all of us felt when catering to our desire for this important mineral.' David Perlmutter, MD A leading cardiovascular research scientist upends the low-salt myth, proving that salt may be one solution to - rather than a cause of - the chronic disease crisis. We've all heard the recommendation: no more than a teaspoon of salt a day for a healthy heart. But there's one big problem with this: the majority of us don't need to watch our salt. For most, salt protects against a host of aliments, including internal starvation, insulin resistance, diabetes and heart disease - not to mention, it tastes great. Dr DiNicolantonio reveals the eye-opening story, a never-been-told, century-spanning drama of competing egos and interests, of how salt became unfairly demonised. (The real culprit? Another white crystal - sugar). Sure to change the conversation about this historically treasured substance, The Salt Fix elegantly weaves research into a fascinating new understanding of salt's essential role in your health and what happens when you aren't getting enough. Dr DiNicolantonio shows how eating the right amount of this essential mineral will help you beat sugar cravings, achieve weight loss, improve athletic performance, increase fertility and thrive with a healthy heart. Finally, he offers a transformative six-step programme for re-calibrating your innate salt thermostat so that you can simply listen to your cravings to achieve your ideal salt intake.
Salt is an acquired taste. When you get used to consuming less salt, food you used to eat will taste too salty. https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/take-it-with-a-grain-of-salt has sources of salt. Here is a table from the book. Do you really think the highly-processed foods with lots of artificially-added salt are better for you than less-processed foods?
What is happening with salt is what is happening with fats vs. sugar. The evolution of dietary science.
As far as salt intake and blood pressure is concerned, it might be possible to check this relatively easily. For example, in the waiting area to my doctor's surgery is a blood pressure monitor. Anyone can walk in and take their blood pressure and get a printed set of readings. No appointment or checking in necessary. This cannot be a unique arrangement. In any case, its possible to get your own BP monitor without great expense and monitor your own BP. However, as a general rule when considering scientific issues I am not trained and educated to resolve, I tend to go with the majority view of those who have been. Dr. Dinicolantonio seems to be in a minority of 1. I won't be buying the book. Or more salt.
The majority view have been fooling you for decades that fats were very very bad for you. We KNOW it is the sugar. Likewise, everyone keeps saying that salt is very very bad for you. I have hypertension, and have been measured below the average low limit for sodium in the blood. For that very reason! I do not add salt to foods, I do not eat very salty foods. I avoid salts at all costs. So my sodium levels are below normal, but my BP is high. Just shows to go that there is no one-size-fits-all in diet. Some people need less salt, some need more. There are too many variables that affect our body vehicle, and to pin it on one mineral or element is the way of the secular food industry. But the one thing we ALL need is to eat more red meat. We need to eat more cows. Because red meat makes the human brain bigger and smarter, as it has for the last 45,000 years. But in less than 2 generations of vegan fags crying about killing the delicate cow, people have been getting stupider and stupider.
Some of us have enough estrogen. https://www.drcarney.com/blog/entry/eating-meat-raises-estrogen-at-cellular-levels
Monitor your weight. If you intake/retain too much salt, your body will compensate by retaining water to balance out the salt. As I understand it, the greater the fluid retention; the greater the strain on the cardiovascular system. Keep us posted about your salt intake and your weight gain/loss.
She is so full of shit, it is a wonder she can even claim she is practicing "medicine". https://www.allmedphysicians.com/ Just another money grab. EAT MORE COWS!