I just started water fasting and I appreciate this video as I am aware if insulin is spiked you can’t burn fat…just posted a video of my recent weight loss as well on my channel 💜
I have a bicuspid heart valve with a heart murmur. For most part I have followed Canada's food guide quite well and believed I ate better than most people eating lower salt and lower fat, eating breakfast starting at 6am with small meals every few hours (about 5-6 meals)as was recommended by trainers the gym. Although I have always exercised /worked out since I was a teen, my endurance was always poor. I got fatigued quickly and my muscles would just give up with lactic acid. My heart would beat so hard I could feel it in my ears . My heart rate would take a long time to come back down all whilst breathing like an obese person. I also had arthritis for most of my adult life and religiously took glucosamine chondroitin supplements daily to ease pain. In 2017 I fell ill for about a month from faulty dental work which was hard to diagnose . I went through many diagnostic tests ,one of which discovered the source of my heart murmur. It was from having a odd genetic defect (bicuspid) with my heart valve which was beginning to show buildup of calcification. I was given the grim news that in a few years I would most likely need to get the valve replaced with a pig valve or some kind of synthetic. Either of which would require me to be on immune suppression meds for the rest of my life. 2020 rolls in with a pandemic and I feel like a bag I hot garbage . Like most people I started watching more Netflix. I happened upon a documentary called "what's with wheat" . I stopped eating gluten just for fun and wow! I started feeling really good. Shortly after I discovered dr. Erik berg, dr. Jason Fung and dr.Stan Ekberg. I started following some of the their advice and I was amazed at how quickly my health, my body and my mind changed. For many people these past 2 years were the worst in their lives. For me they have been the best. All because I took a chance and got away from listening to traditional doctors and the false beliefs that they perpetuate. These RUclips doctors who create these videos have helped so many people for free. Thank you for all you have done! It's 2022, I'm still rocking the same shitty heart valve with a resting heart rate under 60 bpm and my arthritis is gone. I could go on for hours but it's suppertime and it's my one and only meal for the day.. ..can someone please pass me the salt?
I used to never put salt on my food out of fear of heart disease. How I was wrong!! Now I liberally salt everything (also I put nutritional yeast for potassium). Makes everything taste soooo much better, I have more energy and less hunger 🤣😂😍 Since being strict keto I'm down 25lbs. Honestly the best lifestyle!
After years of problem nutritional yeast really saved my life. It totally stabilized my digestive system and I feel great now. I'm also doin keto and IF.
I was getting leg cramps every night but mostly after exercise, long walks and bike rides mostly. I was advised to take magnesium tablets, which I did, however they did not work. I then read a book I found by accident 'the salt solution' which echo's this video. I upped my salt a lot and rarely get cramps now. No effect on my blood pressure either. Will have to try the yeast but do use some 50% potassium salt.
This makes so much sense. Been on a high salt diet as long as I can remember and still don’t have high blood pressure (I’m mid 40s). I’ve always been yelled at to lower my salt intake (by parents, doctors, other family members) but I just love my salt too much 🥰. In recent years I started to try lowering my salt intake because I was getting scared about maybe getting high blood pressure if I don’t cut back, but now looks like I don’t have to.
Dr. David Brownstein found that putting his patients (who'd been taken off salt by other doctors) on UNREFINED salt, their BP declined & they were healthier. But he makes it clear that it cannot be regular chemically-stripped table salt, it must be unrefined salt like Himalayan Salt, Real Salt, Celtic Sea Salt -- minerals intact! In fact, he wrote a book on it called Salt Your Way To Health!
One thing that's so difficult with nutrition and health outcomes/mortality studies is that there are so many variables to consider besides dietary intake, which Dr. Fung touched upon here. But knowing the importance of quality salt for health, which is supported by thousands of years of written historical data, and a WHOLE food diet, maybe what we need is just a health dose of common sense more than studies. Thanks Dr. Fung for your grounded wisdom.
Nutrition is not a rigorous science, that’s why is seen with disdain by us in the exact sciences. The majority of medical/nutritional publications have serious problems with statistical analysis and methodology.
@@di3486 If you regard nutrition with disdain and refer to yourself as "us in the exact sciences", the problem is with you, not with Dr Fung or anyone who does research in this area. You gave it away with the word disdain. Your disdain unfortunately comes from a place of ego and ignorance. The other sciences that you regard as exact, aren't. Your idea that any one science or area of knowledge is inherently more valuable is wrong. Nutrition is an extremely valuable and exacting area of study. It's also very important because our lives and health rely upon it. The problem we have is inaccurate information promulgated by entities with vested interests. You might be interested in learning about the history of how we got the nutrition pyramid we have, what Ancel Keys did in the 50s with the seven countries study. The point I'm trying to make is that nutrition is indeed a rigorous area of study and that holding disdain for any discipline based on the erroneous belief that one's own discipline is more worthwhile is both hubris and a mistake.
@@Kyarrix Nah, don’t worry. We in the STEM don’t suffer from internet sensitivities and I am sure Dr Fung either because he is a scientist. We scientists don’t have those emotional issues. Your comment was just too emotional
All my mother's life she was told she needed to reduce her salt intake as she was told she had hypertension. She went on blood pressure meds, along with all the meds to counteract the side effects of said blood pressure meds: diuretics, etc. She ended up with type II diabetes and went on meds for that. Over the decades she was always thirsty, carried water around with her wherever she went. Fatigue also plagued her. In the last decade of her life, she was diagnosed with an enlarged heart and congestive heart failure. She died at the age of 74. All because she kept her salt very, very low and ate carbs like crazy. Her own mother, on the other hand, added salt liberally and ate a far more traditional diet, and was never on any medications. She died of natural cause at the age of 92. Go figure 🤷♀
My sister had an enlarged heart & died in her sleep @ 49. My father had congestive heart failure & liberally salted his food all his life & died @ 61. He didn't want a transplant because transplants were just beginning in 1987!
I watch a family on RUclips who are Azerbaijani. They’re pretty amazing! She does a lot of cooking and uses handfuls of salt. I’m pretty much done listening to “regular” doctors. I go see mine on Monday, but in the last 8 weeks I’ve lost 36 pounds, basically doing KETO, and exercising every single day, plus 2 days a week, working out with a trainer. So, I expect my blood tests will be outstanding, and I’m coming off a bunch of them come Monday. Lol
@@jgrysiak6566 there is neither cancer, nor heart disease in my immediate family. All of a sudden 2 months ago, one of my sisters (older than me by 10 years) developed A-FIB?! She has had all her 💉💉💉, so now I’m wondering if these are the cause? It’s so strange that out of the blue, she has this problem. 🤷♀️
Personally, I love salt. I actually eat quite a bit of it. I’d say 90% of time maybe more. I saw my food and end up salting it two or three times throughout my meal I eat pretty healthy especially given my career as a truck driver. I probably eat better than most of the country, I am in. And probably better than 99.9% of other truck drivers.
I spent years listening to this and it took a the last year of saying 'test me' to finally find out my sodium levels were fine. I'm sick of the way most doctors just repeat what they have been taught instead of testing to be sure.
Since my late 20s love been told l was hypertension and now lm 56. Last August 2021 l found Dr Dung's video on IF and extended fasting and now lm 118/75 on my blood pressure. I'm glad l never took their (Dr) advice to take drugs! I think most Drs are all too happy to sell folks drugs and that's sad.
@@sepetisionelatu5539 could also be that doctors have given up trying to inform on natural cures, as many people would rather take pills than make changes. I know many people like this.
Thank you Dr. Fung. You are a Saint and you're saving lives. No only has your videos on food and Insulin been extremely enlightening; I've been fearful of consuming and adding salt to for for 20 years thinking that it would increase my blood pressure. Now I'm adding a little Himalaya salt without fear.
thank you dr. Feng. I also bought your books the complete guide to fasting, the longevity solution and the diabetes code. I am very sure by now you have saved thousand of lives through your valuable information and guides. thanks again sir.
Eating low fat, low salt, lots of fruit, specially ripe mangos which I loved, bananas too, etc, (aka SAD) I had stents in 2014 and than a heart attack in 2017 so I knew I needed to do something so on Jan 1,2018 I went high fat low carbs and later went heavy on the salt. . Lot of damage was done eating the SAD I know, but going with Keto got my trigs and A1C at good numbers so I'm a believer.
Being on my keto and fasting journey the last 4 years, and all the information I've gathered and researched has made me angry and frustrated. We have all been brainwashed for decades due to shoddy science and this brainwashing is ingrained so much in our thinking that nobody wants to question the bottom line. The 'salt scare' has done almost as much damage as the 'fat scare'.
I walk 3 hours every morning while fasting(OMAD). First thing I do when I get home is heat up 1to2 cups of chicken bullion, add lots of pink Himalayan salt, and drink it. After my salty drink I feel great and would go on and eat my one meal for the day. I am 57 and never felt better. Thank you Dr for all your advice.
For last 12 years I was on low salt diet because of higher blood pressure, after I saw these reports from other RUclips videos, I start taking good quality salt, wow , what a difference, before I could hear my heart and count the beats, it wasn’t working smoothly, but now I can’t hear anything, it is working very smoothly and quite, working like a Swiss Watch 😂😂😂, my blood pressure is not higher taking the salt🤔🤔, I am still on my BP medication and monitoring It for any increase, so far so good.
Pease, tell us whether your BP medication(s) have been reduced or stopped since you started your change to increase your salt consumption. Also, are you using pink salt or sea salt or Celtic salt. It would be helpful. Thanks. God Bless.
Start walking daily 10 - 20 minutes 2-3 x a day. Then 20 -30 minutes 2-3x daily . Better circulation,is necessary f gd. health.. And cardio health is a must . Limit youtube- mostly just fad diets...
Totally ignored statin prescribed for cholesterol, trying hard to be LCHF. Hoping to lower my Hga1c. Dr Fung was the very first doctor that I watched on RUclips. Thank you Dr Fung, please continue making more educational videos on RUclips.
Million thanks again Dr Jason Fung!!! Am very grateful for all you are doing in my life and that of million others. 🙏 you are changing lives like mine.
Once I saw the J-curve on the sodium/mortality chart, I increased my salt intake. The sweet spot for living longer shows as 4 to 6 grams of sodium. Now I salt to taste. If I get night time cramps, I eat a little more.
At age 80 I have been having increasing problems with orthostatic hypotension, dizziness when standing. My cardiologist suggested increasing my salt intake. Almost immediately my dizziness stopped. I think my sodium level was low because I do HIIT ( high intensity interval training) and perspire a lot. Because my wife is great believer in low salt i probably used to get less than most people.
OMG, you have just put two and two together for me, used to have dizziness and intermittent hearing issues, since increasing my salt (doc told me I had none in my blood test). I’ve just realised I’ve only had one dizzy spell in about a year. Thank you.
Thank you Dr Fung, the world need you for all the teaching that you are doing. You are helping so many people in a time where it is so difficult to find a doctor that knows something about nutrition. I did read your books and those are so much help, I change my heating habit completely and I feel wonderful. Intermittent fasting is the best thing I have learned so far and it is part of my life now. Again, thank you for all the knowledge you are sharing.
Only 6 months of healthy keto + intermittent fasting = 30 pounds (13,6 kgs) lighter and steatosis (NAFLD) changing from severe (level 3) to moderate (level 2). Thank you so much Dr. Berg, Dr. Sten Ekberg and Dr. Jason Fung, you all have been so important in my life as source of real information/inspiration. I'm still at the beginning of this journey, but it is amazing to feel I am at the right path, at last.
That's good to know, thank you. I love salty food as I don't like it spicy. I have low blood pressure so I guess I can keep adding salt to all my food without worrying about it doing harm in the long run 😊
Yes...low salt diet is compensated by sugar...which in turn causes high bp and low magnesium..this causes stress and anxiety leading to heart issues..another factor could be low salt itself causing heart issues
Many people don't realise that having lower than average sodium levels can cause you to have an operation postponed as no anaesthetist will allow an operation to go ahead under lower sodium conditions.
@@heidijames8825 yes I understood. I was trying to change your way of seeing life and not having an operation in your head. I understood your meaning. Happy new year to you.
Doctor Fung is the best. I had one cardiologist pushing vegan diets, one says there is no proof saturated fat is bad. I see the low fat crew getting fatter and fatter. All they look at is ldl.
Thank you for sharing this information. Can you recommend a comprehensive book on vitamins and minerals? There really seems to be a lot of confusion and misinformation out there.
My cardiologist told me to not eat salt and also said my veins were old and could not carry water away from my legs. He asked me to keep my water consumption very low to cure my swollen feet. Also, he gave me a diuretic . I have diabetes. I found living like that very hard and unpleasant. The best thing that has happened is fasting. I don't have swollen legs anymore. I enjoy all the water I want, and I have lost 14 pounds in my first 31 days. I am off totally my minimum daily 65+ units of insulin. I stopped trulicity and all the painful side effects of that drug. I still take jardiance daily but not for long! I have found fasting is a life saving lifestyle! I will never go back to that idiot Cardiologist! I have lost faith in most doctors. Thank you, Dr. FUNG
Considered to be on par with smoking. The low salt thing was almost as bad as the low fat thing that started back in the 70s. All based on dodgy science and politics.
I think the best meaning behind high blood pressure: this is a protection againts freezing/cold. Just think about it - narrowing of blood vessels increases the speed of circulation causing high blood pressure; faster circulation prevent freezing - increasing salt: this is the best way againts freezing - insomnia: if you sleep in cold you are going to freeze
@Jason Fung: What do you think about Dr Richard Johnson's findings that a high salt diet causes the liver to generate fructose via the polyol pathway and also increases vasopressin levels?
Two points on salt: 1. Farmers know to put out a "salt lick" for their cattle, sheep, etc. If they don't have this block of salt, they will get all sorts of diseases. This is the cheapest was to keep livestock healthy...give them salt. 2. God said: "Salt is good." Period. Mark 9:49, Luke 14:34.
FASTING 36+ hours at a time is the quickest way to reduce blood pressure! Some of the many benefits of fasting and low carb diet on the immune system, blood pressure, blood sugar and anti-aging, all backed up by clinical data: Thymus stem cells are regenerated, which suppresses aging and renews the immune system. Fasting stimulates phagocytosis, the ingestion of bacteria and viruses by the immune system. Blood pressure is quickly and dramatically lowered, which is very important for a good outcome with the current pandemic. Fasting increases nitric oxide, which has manifold postive effects like reducing arterial plaque. Weght loss from fasting only loses10% lean tissue and 90% fat compared to the typical 25% lean tissue and 75% fat lost when calorically restricting for long periods. Blood clotting is reduced and blood clots and arterial plaque are reabsorbed into the body. Vitamin D plasma levels are increased, and vitamin D in turn increases autophagy! Blood sugar and insulin are lowered, allowing white blood cells to move more freely throughout the body and do their job. Ideal blood sugar is around 80. Some viruses activate glycolosis (the release of sugar in the body) and clinically it has been shown that decreasing glucose metabolism in the body weakens the influenza virus. The hormone Leptin is an immunomodulator that keeps the body from attacking itself and obesity causes leptin resistance. Fasting very quickly reduces leptin resistance and leptin levels and one day of fasting can cut your leptin levels in half and gets your immune system working properly again! When you move out of MTOR your body shuts down the building blocks of the cell which are used to produce organelles and proteins. This means the mechanisms needed by viruses to replicate are by and large unavailable when you are in a deeply fasted state. It stimulates the AMPK complex and activates autophagy. Autophagy (literally self eating) will cause cells to recycle foreign matter such as viruses and kill cancerous and senescent cells. AMPK does many helpful things in the body including activating the body's antioxidant defenses. Deep ketosis virtually eliminates chronic inflammation in the body. This can offset the life threatening symptoms of viral pneumonia which effectively kills you through inflammation. This also creates BHB ketones in your body, which also help your immune system and anti-oxidative system, especially in the brain. Ketones also provide an additional energy source during infection, which is critical when trying to fight off a bug. In fact you can have as much as three times the total energy available in your blood when you are in deep ketosis, or even more. It increases mitochondrial function and repairs mitichondrial DNA, leading to improved ATP production and oxygen efficiency and thereby making cells better able to fight off infection. Increased mitochondrial function also has the added benefit of increasing your metabolism and cancer prevention! Your body releases interferon which is also triggered by the body during viral attacks to shut down the replication ability of the surrounding cells and stop infections. After 72 hours or more fasted, your body actually recycles large numbers of immune bodies and creates new ones, rejuvenating your entire system. When you fast, this stimulates apoptosis in senescent or genetically damaged cells. This kills these cells off completely. Senescent cells are responsible for the effects of aging and are the root cause of the development of cancer. If it were possible to destroy them all it would completely stop aging and cancer. That is not possible but fasting can help limit these effects by killing off many of the affected cells and limiting the future effects of aging. Fasting also releases BDNF and NGF in the blood which stimulates new nerve and brain cell growth, helping a great deal with diseases like MS, peripheral neuropathy and Alzheimers. In fact, the biochemical precursor to BDNF is beta-hydroxybutyrate, which is the same ketone the body produces to nourish the brain while fasting. Autophagy induced by fasting even helps hair regrow. Dieters losing weight through intermittent fasting show greater reduction in waist size and increase in insulin sensitivity for the same weight lost and alternate day fasters were shown to lose fat while gaining muscle at the same time over a six month period. Fasting has been shown to increase bone marrow volume by 10% and levels of carnosine in the body in as little as a few weeks. Fasting also increases telomere length, negating some of the effects of aging at a cellular level. Eating one meal a day can bring most of these benefits to a lesser degree, and adding a few entire days off from eating per week will have even more effect especially when starting to feel poorly. Exogenous ketones can aid with fasting, making it easier in healthy people and allowing some people with specific issues to fast in spite of them without worrying as much about hypoglycemia. Children, pregnant or nursing women should not fast for periods longer than 16 hours. People with pancreatic tumors or hypoglycemia generally cannot fast at all. Type 1 diabetics can also fast but it is more complicated and should be approached with caution. Those with Addison's disease may also be unable to fast without liberal use of exogenous ketones, depending on severity. If you experience extreme symptoms of some kind, especially dizziness then simply break the fast and seek advice. 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Extremely fascinating, thank you! As I posted in the other video, people please try to be eating "real" salt - sea salt, kosher salt, rock salt, Pink Himalayan, etc (again, I've heard good things about Redman's Real Salt). rather than refined salt, and not anything with anti-caking agent mixed in.
I’m so angry at these doctors that tell us to limit our salt intake. As soon as they find out, we’ve got high blood pressure that same thing happened to me
Thanks again, Dr.. Very impressive. Could you pl. shed some light on intermittently purposely increasing salt intake and fasting. Intermittently high salt intake will increase the body fluid and hence the blood pressure. Will this "wash" away some of the blockages in the blood vessels by expansion and contraction under the "normal" conditions? How does fasting help in overall blood pressure? Thanks, Dr.
My heart beat count used to be over 90 when I followed the low salt diet. After I eat much salt, especially to counter high potassium in my vegan diet,my heart beat count went back to 60-70. Thank you Dr Fung for the shocking fact.
One doesn't need to understand nutrition if you could just look at history of how valuable and important SALT really was. We crave salt naturally. The American Heart Association is a disgrace.
Thanks Dr Fung for your video. I'm also reading your book "The Longevity Solution" and in it you said "...your body maintains a steady salt level regardless of how much or how little salt you eat". If thats true, then low-salt or high-salt diets would both have no effect on our health. But you seem to suggest that low-salt diet is very bad for health. Or am I understanding this wrongly? Appreciate if you could enlighten me on this. Appreciate it.
My late father died with no heart problems after decades on a low salt diet, depriving himself of delicious food for nothing. I’ve been a type 1 diabetic since 1970, and still have more insulin resistance than I’d like despite over a year on a near-carnivore diet. I will eat as much salt as I find palatable. The utter terror of dietary salt among some creators of videos here on RUclips is striking. Some people actually feel ill after eating salty food: they’re convinced it’s toxic, and make it clear that anyone eating lots of salt is no better than suicidal. Deep faith there.
There are a few things as delicious as avocado drizzled with a little fresh lemon juice and a sprinkle of salt. Or a steak. Or both. I can't do the carnivore diet, I find myself craving fresh food. Blackberries, avocado, tomatoes and spinach sauteed in a little butter with my eggs, the very occasional sumo orange. Very occasional because there's a lot of sugar in them. I'm not criticizing your diet, I know it can work for people. We're all different. The one thing we have in common, we all need to avoid processed food, added sugar and so-called heart healthy vegetable oils that aren't healthy. I hope the carnivore diet is working well for you. You're right about the over the top reactions to salt. I also use the amount of salt that is palatable to me. Good health!
I had high sodium fried rice with 3 scoop of high salt sauerkraut and its juice two days ago the next day my BP was so high that I felt like I was gonna die as my throat were so dry even after drinking water it felt like someone is choking me hard and I felt darkness inside my eyes. So I check in the hospital my vitals were normal but my BP stay high even after taking a BP medication. Through out the day I felt like blood is rushing through my head. Then I start eating high potassium diet like banana, green mung beans, raisins and it's water. That calm down my BP. My gosh I have learned my lesson never again I want high sodium food.
What about overall meat consumption, Americans eat a lot more meat than the Japanese. The Japanese eat a lot more fish and vegetables versus the US diet, should this also be taken into account?
Some time back in the 90's the Oregon Health and Science University conducted a trial to determine the effects of reducing salt intake. I recall well the results because they came close to telling us nothing. Approximately 1/3 of the participants saw their BP go down. Roughly the same percentage saw no effect on BP. And the other roughly 1/3 saw their BP go up.
Interesting findings. What effect does the low salt diet have on the tribes mentioned? Could it be that these are mostly sigbs of correlation but not causation, meaning that adjustment of salts follow with a less healthy diet? Cheers!
The day after my friend's heart surgery he was brought every pudding, cake, and pies - but NO EVIL SALT!!!! SALT bad! Our med system goes beyond incompetence.
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Are there any studies where a difference is made between refined table salt and sea salt / mountain salt?
Hee docter Fung, would be nice if You post the links of article’s/research! Thank you for your quality work 💯
Too much salt makes you thirsty. That's all.
I just started water fasting and I appreciate this video as I am aware if insulin is spiked you can’t burn fat…just posted a video of my recent weight loss as well on my channel 💜
@@psp04msait's all bs.
I have a bicuspid heart valve with a heart murmur. For most part I have followed Canada's food guide quite well and believed I ate better than most people eating lower salt and lower fat, eating breakfast starting at 6am with small meals every few hours (about 5-6 meals)as was recommended by trainers the gym. Although I have always exercised /worked out since I was a teen, my endurance was always poor. I got fatigued quickly and my muscles would just give up with lactic acid. My heart would beat so hard I could feel it in my ears . My heart rate would take a long time to come back down all whilst breathing like an obese person. I also had arthritis for most of my adult life and religiously took glucosamine chondroitin supplements daily to ease pain.
In 2017 I fell ill for about a month from faulty dental work which was hard to diagnose . I went through many diagnostic tests ,one of which discovered the source of my heart murmur. It was from having a odd genetic defect (bicuspid) with my heart valve which was beginning to show buildup of calcification. I was given the grim news that in a few years I would most likely need to get the valve replaced with a pig valve or some kind of synthetic. Either of which would require me to be on immune suppression meds for the rest of my life.
2020 rolls in with a pandemic and I feel like a bag I hot garbage . Like most people I started watching more Netflix. I happened upon a documentary called "what's with wheat" . I stopped eating gluten just for fun and wow! I started feeling really good. Shortly after I discovered dr. Erik berg, dr. Jason Fung and dr.Stan Ekberg. I started following some of the their advice and I was amazed at how quickly my health, my body and my mind changed.
For many people these past 2 years were the worst in their lives. For me they have been the best. All because I took a chance and got away from listening to traditional doctors and the false beliefs that they perpetuate.
These RUclips doctors who create these videos have helped so many people for free. Thank you for all you have done!
It's 2022, I'm still rocking the same shitty heart valve with a resting heart rate under 60 bpm and my arthritis is gone. I could go on for hours but it's suppertime and it's my one and only meal for the day..
..can someone please pass me the salt?
Ok.
The Internet doctors are more bullshit. For example Dr. Berg the masseur.
@@thelogician1934 ok
@@thelogician1934 somebody works for the food industry.
@@thelogician1934 explain all the people correcting their health and getting off meds?? Have to admit somethings working.
I used to never put salt on my food out of fear of heart disease. How I was wrong!! Now I liberally salt everything (also I put nutritional yeast for potassium).
Makes everything taste soooo much better, I have more energy and less hunger 🤣😂😍
Since being strict keto I'm down 25lbs. Honestly the best lifestyle!
After years of problem nutritional yeast really saved my life. It totally stabilized my digestive system and I feel great now. I'm also doin keto and IF.
I love nutritional yeast in a cup of bone broth and lots of salt to break my IF fast.
@@thespear4083 its so good 🤣😂
I was getting leg cramps every night but mostly after exercise, long walks and bike rides mostly. I was advised to take magnesium tablets, which I did, however they did not work. I then read a book I found by accident 'the salt solution' which echo's this video. I upped my salt a lot and rarely get cramps now. No effect on my blood pressure either. Will have to try the yeast but do use some 50% potassium salt.
Oh wow and congratulations, good on you and keep up the awesomeness!!!👏👏👏
This is the best explanation I've ever heard about why low salt is bad for you.
This makes so much sense. Been on a high salt diet as long as I can remember and still don’t have high blood pressure (I’m mid 40s). I’ve always been yelled at to lower my salt intake (by parents, doctors, other family members) but I just love my salt too much 🥰. In recent years I started to try lowering my salt intake because I was getting scared about maybe getting high blood pressure if I don’t cut back, but now looks like I don’t have to.
Dr. David Brownstein found that putting his patients (who'd been taken off salt by other doctors) on UNREFINED salt, their BP declined & they were healthier. But he makes it clear that it cannot be regular chemically-stripped table salt, it must be unrefined salt like Himalayan Salt, Real Salt, Celtic Sea Salt -- minerals intact! In fact, he wrote a book on it called Salt Your Way To Health!
One thing that's so difficult with nutrition and health outcomes/mortality studies is that there are so many variables to consider besides dietary intake, which Dr. Fung touched upon here. But knowing the importance of quality salt for health, which is supported by thousands of years of written historical data, and a WHOLE food diet, maybe what we need is just a health dose of common sense more than studies. Thanks Dr. Fung for your grounded wisdom.
Nutrition is not a rigorous science, that’s why is seen with disdain by us in the exact sciences. The majority of medical/nutritional publications have serious problems with statistical analysis and methodology.
@@di3486 If you regard nutrition with disdain and refer to yourself as "us in the exact sciences", the problem is with you, not with Dr Fung or anyone who does research in this area.
You gave it away with the word disdain. Your disdain unfortunately comes from a place of ego and ignorance. The other sciences that you regard as exact, aren't. Your idea that any one science or area of knowledge is inherently more valuable is wrong. Nutrition is an extremely valuable and exacting area of study. It's also very important because our lives and health rely upon it.
The problem we have is inaccurate information promulgated by entities with vested interests. You might be interested in learning about the history of how we got the nutrition pyramid we have, what Ancel Keys did in the 50s with the seven countries study.
The point I'm trying to make is that nutrition is indeed a rigorous area of study and that holding disdain for any discipline based on the erroneous belief that one's own discipline is more worthwhile is both hubris and a mistake.
@@mananthakrishnan thank you. I think I was a little harsh though. I thought I might edit it down a little.
@@Kyarrix Nah, don’t worry. We in the STEM don’t suffer from internet sensitivities and I am sure Dr Fung either because he is a scientist. We scientists don’t have those emotional issues. Your comment was just too emotional
@@Kyarrix well said!
Wish more people knew how much misinformation is out there about this topic (salt). Thanks for doing this video, Jason.
All my mother's life she was told she needed to reduce her salt intake as she was told she had hypertension. She went on blood pressure meds, along with all the meds to counteract the side effects of said blood pressure meds: diuretics, etc. She ended up with type II diabetes and went on meds for that. Over the decades she was always thirsty, carried water around with her wherever she went. Fatigue also plagued her. In the last decade of her life, she was diagnosed with an enlarged heart and congestive heart failure. She died at the age of 74. All because she kept her salt very, very low and ate carbs like crazy. Her own mother, on the other hand, added salt liberally and ate a far more traditional diet, and was never on any medications. She died of natural cause at the age of 92. Go figure 🤷♀
My sister had an enlarged heart & died in her sleep @ 49. My father had congestive heart failure & liberally salted his food all his life & died @ 61. He didn't want a transplant because transplants were just beginning in 1987!
I watch a family on RUclips who are Azerbaijani. They’re pretty amazing! She does a lot of cooking and uses handfuls of salt. I’m pretty much done listening to “regular” doctors. I go see mine on Monday, but in the last 8 weeks I’ve lost 36 pounds, basically doing KETO, and exercising every single day, plus 2 days a week, working out with a trainer. So, I expect my blood tests will be outstanding, and I’m coming off a bunch of them come Monday. Lol
@@jgrysiak6566 there is neither cancer, nor heart disease in my immediate family. All of a sudden 2 months ago, one of my sisters (older than me by 10 years) developed A-FIB?! She has had all her 💉💉💉, so now I’m wondering if these are the cause? It’s so strange that out of the blue, she has this problem. 🤷♀️
Personally, I love salt. I actually eat quite a bit of it. I’d say 90% of time maybe more. I saw my food and end up salting it two or three times throughout my meal I eat pretty healthy especially given my career as a truck driver. I probably eat better than most of the country, I am in. And probably better than 99.9% of other truck drivers.
Sometimes the medication will kill you faster than the disease.
Thanks. My grandmother lived into her 90s. She ate very high fat breakfasts and a moderate lunch and no dinner. She ate salt with every meal.
Hello Dr. Fung , and Happy Sunday. To everyone watching stay happy, healthy, wealthy & wise. Thank you. 🤍✨🌸🎀😊
Same to you
@@shahzadi72 Thank you, Dr. Hussain 😊
Happy Sabbath God bless 🙏
You saved my life with your free advice. I’m forever in your debt sir
My doc is always telling me to cut salt out of my diet. I've been trying to tell him otherwise, but it may be easier to just ignore him.
Its really moronic how the medical system works
"Health care" system here in the US has lost all credibility with me. This is simply one more area where they are clueless.
Get a new doc
I'm salt sensitive, it makes me eat more & I gain weight
I spent years listening to this and it took a the last year of saying 'test me' to finally find out my sodium levels were fine. I'm sick of the way most doctors just repeat what they have been taught instead of testing to be sure.
Since my late 20s love been told l was hypertension and now lm 56. Last August 2021 l found Dr Dung's video on IF and extended fasting and now lm 118/75 on my blood pressure. I'm glad l never took their (Dr) advice to take drugs! I think most Drs are all too happy to sell folks drugs and that's sad.
@@sepetisionelatu5539 could also be that doctors have given up trying to inform on natural cures, as many people would rather take pills than make changes. I know many people like this.
Serum sodium has no relationship at all with fluid retention/hypertension. It wouldn't, even if you salt hypertension hypothesis was right
The patient who believes "wholehearted" (pun - intended) what Dr. preaches is gospel - is screwed!
Getting tested regularly is super important so as to know where your body is at! Good for you!
Thank you Dr. Fung. You are a Saint and you're saving lives. No only has your videos on food and Insulin been extremely enlightening; I've been fearful of consuming and adding salt to for for 20 years thinking that it would increase my blood pressure. Now I'm adding a little Himalaya salt without fear.
not only do i add A LOT of it, when i m a bit hungry but dont want to eat, i put a little piece of it under my tongue and bam, it goes away
@@svietka202 yep done this myself.
Himalayan salt is a scam.
@@shoppingrb9544 really why is that?
Dr Jason is my personal HERO❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
thank you dr. Feng. I also bought your books the complete guide to fasting, the longevity solution and the diabetes code. I am very sure by now you have saved thousand of lives through your valuable information and guides. thanks again sir.
Eating low fat, low salt, lots of fruit, specially ripe mangos which I loved, bananas too, etc, (aka SAD) I had stents in 2014 and than a heart attack in 2017 so I knew I needed to do something so on Jan 1,2018 I went high fat low carbs and later went heavy on the salt. . Lot of damage was done eating the SAD I know, but going with Keto got my trigs and A1C at good numbers so I'm a believer.
Being on my keto and fasting journey the last 4 years, and all the information I've gathered and researched has made me angry and frustrated. We have all been brainwashed for decades due to shoddy science and this brainwashing is ingrained so much in our thinking that nobody wants to question the bottom line. The 'salt scare' has done almost as much damage as the 'fat scare'.
exactly, we are living in a complete lie and most don't see it.
I walk 3 hours every morning while fasting(OMAD). First thing I do when I get home is heat up 1to2 cups of chicken bullion, add lots of pink Himalayan salt, and drink it. After my salty drink I feel great and would go on and eat my one meal for the day. I am 57 and never felt better. Thank you Dr for all your advice.
I was told himalayan salt is not healthy because it comtains more toxins and radioaactive than table salt
Operative word -- Himalayan -- unrefined salt that has all the minerals we need!
@@bburnsga😳 🧂 I did not know that ...
bburnsga, GIANT FLYING BS. Please go back to school.
@@bburnsgaHimalayan salt is a scam.
For last 12 years I was on low salt diet because of higher blood pressure, after I saw these reports from other RUclips videos, I start taking good quality salt, wow , what a difference, before I could hear my heart and count the beats, it wasn’t working smoothly, but now I can’t hear anything, it is working very smoothly and quite, working like a Swiss Watch 😂😂😂, my blood pressure is not higher taking the salt🤔🤔, I am still on my BP medication and monitoring It for any increase, so far so good.
Pease, tell us whether your BP medication(s) have been reduced or stopped since you started your change to increase your salt consumption.
Also, are you using pink salt or sea salt or Celtic salt.
It would be helpful. Thanks. God Bless.
I Believe It's The Chloride With The Salt, That Causes The Elevation Of The Pressure.
Start walking daily 10 - 20 minutes 2-3 x a day. Then 20 -30 minutes 2-3x daily .
Better circulation,is necessary f gd. health..
And cardio health is a must .
Limit youtube- mostly just fad diets...
Potassium helps alot with blood pressure, eat food higher enough in Potassium, you can also supplement with good quality Potassium citrate.
Eat only beef and eggs, some veg. Don’t eat too much. Exercise. Gl
Great video - great information as always . With blessings . Thank you 🙏
Totally ignored statin prescribed for cholesterol, trying hard to be LCHF. Hoping to lower my Hga1c. Dr Fung was the very first doctor that I watched on RUclips. Thank you Dr Fung, please continue making more educational videos on RUclips.
Thank you Dr.Fung for an honest, science based, factual video, on a subject that is relative to all of us.👍🧂
I never skip advertisement while watching his videos as my thanks.
Million thanks again Dr Jason Fung!!! Am very grateful for all you are doing in my life and that of million others. 🙏 you are changing lives like mine.
Once again, Thank you very much Dr. Fung, for your good explanation and good advice!👍
Best reference on this channel !!! Hoping that some CMA's officials are taking notes...
Once I saw the J-curve on the sodium/mortality chart, I increased my salt intake. The sweet spot for living longer shows as 4 to 6 grams of sodium. Now I salt to taste. If I get night time cramps, I eat a little more.
Night time cramps can also be the result of not enough magnesium or an imbalance in other electrolytes.
@@Kyarrix Yes...and mild dehydration. A little water will relax severe cramps almost immediately.
@@Kyarrix Sodium is an electrolyte :-D
@@julesthom3828 I didn't think I had to write the word other.
Thanks for Information Jason Fung! ❤
Balance is the key. Too much of anything is bad.
At age 80 I have been having increasing problems with orthostatic hypotension, dizziness when standing. My cardiologist suggested increasing my salt intake. Almost immediately my dizziness stopped. I think my sodium level was low because I do HIIT ( high intensity interval training) and perspire a lot. Because my wife is great believer in low salt i probably used to get less than most people.
OMG, you have just put two and two together for me, used to have dizziness and intermittent hearing issues, since increasing my salt (doc told me I had none in my blood test). I’ve just realised I’ve only had one dizzy spell in about a year. Thank you.
Thank you Dr.Fung
Thank you, Dr. Fung.
Thank you Dr Fung, the world need you for all the teaching that you are doing. You are helping so many people in a time where it is so difficult to find a doctor that knows something about nutrition. I did read your books and those are so much help, I change my heating habit completely and I feel wonderful. Intermittent fasting is the best thing I have learned so far and it is part of my life now. Again, thank you for all the knowledge you are sharing.
Thank you doc. Fung ! It is all very clear !
Always questioning
I appreciate it
Great research, thanks for presenting the research we appreciate it why does the body retain water? Is it sodium?
Thanks so much. I wish our public education methods captured real data to inform our health choices.
Only 6 months of healthy keto + intermittent fasting = 30 pounds (13,6 kgs) lighter and steatosis (NAFLD) changing from severe (level 3) to moderate (level 2). Thank you so much Dr. Berg, Dr. Sten Ekberg and Dr. Jason Fung, you all have been so important in my life as source of real information/inspiration. I'm still at the beginning of this journey, but it is amazing to feel I am at the right path, at last.
damn so much water weight loss
Thank you Dr. Jason Fung, particularly relying on studies to guide this brief.
That's good to know, thank you. I love salty food as I don't like it spicy. I have low blood pressure so I guess I can keep adding salt to all my food without worrying about it doing harm in the long run 😊
Love your work Doctor. ❤️
One of the confounding factors might be that people who deprive themselves of salt could be satisfying that craving with sugar.
Yes...low salt diet is compensated by sugar...which in turn causes high bp and low magnesium..this causes stress and anxiety leading to heart issues..another factor could be low salt itself causing heart issues
Very helpful video as usual. Thanks DR. Fung❤️
I really like what you’re putting down JF
thanks for this great valuable information
Good afternoon Doc. Thanks for the information!
Many people don't realise that having lower than average sodium levels can cause you to have an operation postponed as no anaesthetist will allow an operation to go ahead under lower sodium conditions.
What operation do you need? Most folks dont require operations.
@@john2914 I mean ANY person requiring an operation. It won't go ahead if they have low sodium levels.
@@heidijames8825 yes I understood. I was trying to change your way of seeing life and not having an operation in your head. I understood your meaning. Happy new year to you.
Another Awesome video Thanks Much Love ❤❤❤
thank you Jason
Doctor Fung is the best. I had one cardiologist pushing vegan diets, one says there is no proof saturated fat is bad. I see the low fat crew getting fatter and fatter. All they look at is ldl.
I get heavy cramps from sport.Tried everything till I found salt.Thanks for the video.
Thank you so much Dr. Fung, you are a saint...
Thank you for another excellent video.
Thank you for sharing this information. Can you recommend a comprehensive book on vitamins and minerals? There really seems to be a lot of confusion and misinformation out there.
My cardiologist told me to not eat salt and also said my veins were old and could not carry water away from my legs. He asked me to keep my water consumption very low to cure my swollen feet. Also, he gave me a diuretic . I have diabetes. I found living like that very hard and unpleasant. The best thing that has happened is fasting. I don't have swollen legs anymore. I enjoy all the water I want, and I have lost 14 pounds in my first 31 days. I am off totally my minimum daily 65+ units of insulin. I stopped trulicity and all the painful side effects of that drug. I still take jardiance daily but not for long! I have found fasting is a life saving lifestyle! I will never go back to that idiot Cardiologist! I have lost faith in most doctors. Thank you, Dr. FUNG
Amazing video 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤❤❤❤
This video is very interesting and educational
Thanks for this very informative information..stay safe and keep up the good work
Excellent ❤
...great vid Dr. Fung.
I snow my food with RealSalt every meal. Have done so for decades. No issues.
Considered to be on par with smoking. The low salt thing was almost as bad as the low fat thing that started back in the 70s. All based on dodgy science and politics.
Thanks a lot Dr. Jason..It's a treat to listen to you!!
Was waiting for one of your Live Sessions..Any Plans to come live..?
Hello Dr.can u plz explain the negative impact of fasting on period cycle
Dr. How about for kidney disease
I think the best meaning behind high blood pressure: this is a protection againts freezing/cold. Just think about it
- narrowing of blood vessels increases the speed of circulation causing high blood pressure; faster circulation prevent freezing
- increasing salt: this is the best way againts freezing
- insomnia: if you sleep in cold you are going to freeze
thank you so much Dr Fung! Can we overdo salt please, how much is too much please? Thank you so much.
Salt to taste. If you're well hydrated, the excess salt simply is lost in urine.
@Jason Fung: What do you think about Dr Richard Johnson's findings that a high salt diet causes the liver to generate fructose via the polyol pathway and also increases vasopressin levels?
Only if you have fructose ruclips.net/video/NolUugkz0VI/видео.html
Two points on salt:
1. Farmers know to put out a "salt lick" for their cattle, sheep, etc. If they don't have this block of salt, they will get all sorts of diseases. This is the cheapest was to keep livestock healthy...give them salt.
2. God said: "Salt is good." Period. Mark 9:49, Luke 14:34.
@@MZ95 Why would you kick a rock??
@@MZ95 what?
FASTING 36+ hours at a time is the quickest way to reduce blood pressure!
Some of the many benefits of fasting and low carb diet on the immune system, blood pressure, blood sugar and anti-aging, all backed up by clinical data:
Thymus stem cells are regenerated, which suppresses aging and renews the immune system.
Fasting stimulates phagocytosis, the ingestion of bacteria and viruses by the immune system.
Blood pressure is quickly and dramatically lowered, which is very important for a good outcome with the current pandemic.
Fasting increases nitric oxide, which has manifold postive effects like reducing arterial plaque.
Weght loss from fasting only loses10% lean tissue and 90% fat compared to the typical 25% lean tissue and 75% fat lost when calorically restricting for long periods.
Blood clotting is reduced and blood clots and arterial plaque are reabsorbed into the body.
Vitamin D plasma levels are increased, and vitamin D in turn increases autophagy!
Blood sugar and insulin are lowered, allowing white blood cells to move more freely throughout the body and do their job. Ideal blood sugar is around 80. Some viruses activate glycolosis (the release of sugar in the body) and clinically it has been shown that decreasing glucose metabolism in the body weakens the influenza virus.
The hormone Leptin is an immunomodulator that keeps the body from attacking itself and obesity causes leptin resistance. Fasting very quickly reduces leptin resistance and leptin levels and one day of fasting can cut your leptin levels in half and gets your immune system working properly again!
When you move out of MTOR your body shuts down the building blocks of the cell which are used to produce organelles and proteins. This means the mechanisms needed by viruses to replicate are by and large unavailable when you are in a deeply fasted state.
It stimulates the AMPK complex and activates autophagy. Autophagy (literally self eating) will cause cells to recycle foreign matter such as viruses and kill cancerous and senescent cells. AMPK does many helpful things in the body including activating the body's antioxidant defenses.
Deep ketosis virtually eliminates chronic inflammation in the body. This can offset the life threatening symptoms of viral pneumonia which effectively kills you through inflammation. This also creates BHB ketones in your body, which also help your immune system and anti-oxidative system, especially in the brain. Ketones also provide an additional energy source during infection, which is critical when trying to fight off a bug. In fact you can have as much as three times the total energy available in your blood when you are in deep ketosis, or even more.
It increases mitochondrial function and repairs mitichondrial DNA, leading to improved ATP production and oxygen efficiency and thereby making cells better able to fight off infection. Increased mitochondrial function also has the added benefit of increasing your metabolism and cancer prevention!
Your body releases interferon which is also triggered by the body during viral attacks to shut down the replication ability of the surrounding cells and stop infections.
After 72 hours or more fasted, your body actually recycles large numbers of immune bodies and creates new ones, rejuvenating your entire system.
When you fast, this stimulates apoptosis in senescent or genetically damaged cells. This kills these cells off completely. Senescent cells are responsible for the effects of aging and are the root cause of the development of cancer. If it were possible to destroy them all it would completely stop aging and cancer. That is not possible but fasting can help limit these effects by killing off many of the affected cells and limiting the future effects of aging.
Fasting also releases BDNF and NGF in the blood which stimulates new nerve and brain cell growth, helping a great deal with diseases like MS, peripheral neuropathy and Alzheimers.
In fact, the biochemical precursor to BDNF is beta-hydroxybutyrate, which is the same ketone the body produces to nourish the brain while fasting.
Autophagy induced by fasting even helps hair regrow.
Dieters losing weight through intermittent fasting show greater reduction in waist size and increase in insulin sensitivity for the same weight lost and alternate day fasters were shown to lose fat while gaining muscle at the same time over a six month period.
Fasting has been shown to increase bone marrow volume by 10% and levels of carnosine in the body in as little as a few weeks.
Fasting also increases telomere length, negating some of the effects of aging at a cellular level.
Eating one meal a day can bring most of these benefits to a lesser degree, and adding a few entire days off from eating per week will have even more effect especially when starting to feel poorly.
Exogenous ketones can aid with fasting, making it easier in healthy people and allowing some people with specific issues to fast in spite of them without worrying as much about hypoglycemia.
Children, pregnant or nursing women should not fast for periods longer than 16 hours. People with pancreatic tumors or hypoglycemia generally cannot fast at all. Type 1 diabetics can also fast but it is more complicated and should be approached with caution. Those with Addison's disease may also be unable to fast without liberal use of exogenous ketones, depending on severity. If you experience extreme symptoms of some kind, especially dizziness then simply break the fast and seek advice.
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Thanks so much for the references!
Thank you for taking the time to share this information. Greatly appreciated.
Extremely fascinating, thank you! As I posted in the other video, people please try to be eating "real" salt - sea salt, kosher salt, rock salt, Pink Himalayan, etc (again, I've heard good things about Redman's Real Salt). rather than refined salt, and not anything with anti-caking agent mixed in.
I wish you have posted those articles here.
I would love to see a video on the science of fasting while breastfeeding!
Are there any good studies showing how increasing potassium lowers blood pressure?
I’m so angry at these doctors that tell us to limit our salt intake. As soon as they find out, we’ve got high blood pressure that same thing happened to me
Thanks again, Dr.. Very impressive. Could you pl. shed some light on intermittently purposely increasing salt intake and fasting. Intermittently high salt intake will increase the body fluid and hence the blood pressure. Will this "wash" away some of the blockages in the blood vessels by expansion and contraction under the "normal" conditions? How does fasting help in overall blood pressure? Thanks, Dr.
As a child I used to eat course salt, a few chunky granules. So satisfying.
My heart beat count used to be over 90 when I followed the low salt diet. After I eat much salt, especially to counter high potassium in my vegan diet,my heart beat count went back to 60-70. Thank you Dr Fung for the
shocking fact.
wow so much good information
One doesn't need to understand nutrition if you could just look at history of how valuable and important SALT really was. We crave salt naturally. The American Heart Association is a disgrace.
In 2017 Dr DiNicolantonio wrote The Salt Fix. Glad to hear you also are challenging how a low salt diet may not necessarily reduce heart disease.
Thank you 😊
Thanks Dr Fung for your video. I'm also reading your book "The Longevity Solution" and in it you said "...your body maintains a steady salt level regardless of how much or how little salt you eat". If thats true, then low-salt or high-salt diets would both have no effect on our health. But you seem to suggest that low-salt diet is very bad for health. Or am I understanding this wrongly? Appreciate if you could enlighten me on this. Appreciate it.
My late father died with no heart problems after decades on a low salt diet, depriving himself of delicious food for nothing. I’ve been a type 1 diabetic since 1970, and still have more insulin resistance than I’d like despite over a year on a near-carnivore diet. I will eat as much salt as I find palatable.
The utter terror of dietary salt among some creators of videos here on RUclips is striking. Some people actually feel ill after eating salty food: they’re convinced it’s toxic, and make it clear that anyone eating lots of salt is no better than suicidal. Deep faith there.
There are a few things as delicious as avocado drizzled with a little fresh lemon juice and a sprinkle of salt. Or a steak. Or both. I can't do the carnivore diet, I find myself craving fresh food. Blackberries, avocado, tomatoes and spinach sauteed in a little butter with my eggs, the very occasional sumo orange. Very occasional because there's a lot of sugar in them.
I'm not criticizing your diet, I know it can work for people. We're all different. The one thing we have in common, we all need to avoid processed food, added sugar and so-called heart healthy vegetable oils that aren't healthy.
I hope the carnivore diet is working well for you. You're right about the over the top reactions to salt. I also use the amount of salt that is palatable to me. Good health!
Excellent 🎉
Thank you ❤
Thanks Doc 🤗
I hope Dr. Jason Fung will respond soon to the ridiculous claims of AHA concerning Intermittent fasting.
Thank you sooo much for your videos 💙 they changed my entire dark life with even no salt at all!
Thanks for sharing this information Dr. Fungus
I had high sodium fried rice with 3 scoop of high salt sauerkraut and its juice two days ago the next day my BP was so high that I felt like I was gonna die as my throat were so dry even after drinking water it felt like someone is choking me hard and I felt darkness inside my eyes. So I check in the hospital my vitals were normal but my BP stay high even after taking a BP medication. Through out the day I felt like blood is rushing through my head. Then I start eating high potassium diet like banana, green mung beans, raisins and it's water. That calm down my BP. My gosh I have learned my lesson never again I want high sodium food.
insulin drives high blood pressure by narrowing the arteries. You cannot have hbp without high insulin.
You need a psychiatrist.
Is there any benefit to buying lower salt packed foods like beans, and broths and such and salting just with your own cooking and preparation
What about overall meat consumption, Americans eat a lot more meat than the Japanese. The Japanese eat a lot more fish and vegetables versus the US diet, should this also be taken into account?
Salt nourishes the kidneys unless the kidneys are blown out. Stay on top of your health while you're healthy.
Jason, sea salt or Himalayan pink salt?
Some time back in the 90's the Oregon Health and Science University conducted a trial to determine the effects of reducing salt intake. I recall well the results because they came close to telling us nothing. Approximately 1/3 of the participants saw their BP go down. Roughly the same percentage saw no effect on BP. And the other roughly 1/3 saw their BP go up.
Interesting findings. What effect does the low salt diet have on the tribes mentioned? Could it be that these are mostly sigbs of correlation but not causation, meaning that adjustment of salts follow with a less healthy diet? Cheers!
good information
Thank you
The day after my friend's heart surgery he was brought every pudding, cake, and pies - but NO EVIL SALT!!!! SALT bad! Our med system goes beyond incompetence.