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Salt = Wellness?

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I've been noticing lately that if I eat a really salty meal, I feel really good for the next 3-4 hours, starting about an hour after the meal. Usually it's from salty fish like smoked salmon, anchovies, or occasionally there is miso in the dish. Either way, it's a clear difference in feelings of well-being.

Normally I have fatigue and brain fog and slight malaise, but the salty foods get rid of that for a few hours.

I'm talking about meals that have 100-200% DV of sodium. I guess that's upwards of 3 grams of salt.

Keep in mind I have slightly low blood pressure, and I weigh ~120 lbs and am 5'11''.
 
You could be salt sensitive, meaning the salt actually raises your blood pressure. Or it could be the omega 3's. There's really nothing anyone can do here but speculate, but there's no harm in speculation with this, so I'm going to leave this open instead of just saying "go see your doctor"--Though I think you should if you're concerned.
 
^ Agree. Even the ancient romans knew it and therefore gave payments for their soldiers in form of salt. Hence the word salary.
 
Hi, I'm a noob (2nd post). I was looking for my 1st post and saw this first. Couldn't pass up a chance to post. Salt is near and dear to my heart - I can't imagine life without it. I don't really like sweets but I love anything salty! Been that way forever. I've been gaped at for my nacl intake. Re: health effects, I only get limitation for people with HBP. I'm 5'7, 118# and my BP's always been low. Thanks for letting me join!
 
hhmmm you're pretty slim, perhaps you could be low in potassium, magnesium, or other vitamins too depending on your diet? Something to look into?
 
I hope you turn soon into a evolutionary stage where you use metric system (or the whole SI system) so we ah so civilized Europeans (Shame for the UK though) can understand your weight and height too without having to rely on converters.

Also I cannot stand that those things you use to describe dimensions, mass, pressure etc. do not even rely on anything scientifically standards. Unlike SI which for example simply says that one kilogram comes from a weight of litre of a water or that temperature scale has 0 degree as melting point of water and 100 degree is boiling point of water.

But there is still progress to be here too. I hope that Kelvin level will be put in use some days so that people finally understand that there is no difference between the form of tempereture when it is either + or - as some people thinks that cold is somehow different than hot. They are the same thing. Colder things just have less movement than hot things.
 
^MrRoot, that is not what this thread is for. Please keep your posts on topic.

Though I see this thread going down the shitter very quickly...
 
^ Okay. Will try to stay in topic in the future but I just had to vent as I cant tell anything about how tall or skinny someone is if they are given in weird mysterious terms like pounds, foot, stones etc.

But please leave this topic open. We have a lot of cardiovascular problems here in Finland and we are good guinea pigs because we have so homogenic genome "diversity". Therefore there have been done such a great amount of very reliable scientific studies with long timeframe and lot of patients that the worlds knowledge of cardiovascular problems and how diet and lifestyle affects it has increased greatly because of our contribution to science in that area.

Some of the WHO's suggested daily doses of different nutrients are based on those studies. I will try to link them here as I find them in English.

But they revolve around the sodium intake and the HDL/LDL ratio and even the first therapeutical food that is proved to lower your cholesterol values and adjust the ratio has originated from here.

And also the Xylitol which is used as sweeteners in bubblegums etc.
 
What tipped you off?

belarki said:
hhmmm you're pretty slim, perhaps you could be low in potassium, magnesium, or other vitamins too depending on your diet? Something to look into?
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Hi, wow, thanks for the reply. Used to have to take KCl, my levels were fine in Dec. But, given that was pre-research, it might be wise to recheck. I've been taking methylone steadily for a few months now. Do you know if that eats electrolytes?
 
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I am the exact same way. My blood pressure has always been low, 5'9, 145lbs.
I now spike a lot of my foods with salt because it also makes me feel much better. My guess has to do with blood pressure.
 
^ Yeah, it makes sense, right?

^^ @treefa, is it bad for EVERYBODY? Or just people with high blood pressure and cardio problems? Everybody is different.
 
salt and stuff

salt isnt bad until you start messing around with a iodized version, same as sugar.. if you are eating a complete healthy range of food and drinking enough water that your piss is clear you can do pretty much whatever you want. the human body is amazing and can tolerate pretty much anything, but if things start to build up it gets desperate and uses oragans for toxin elimination and they cant do that forever, they have other jobs.. if you eat right otherwise and arent sensitive to it a quality sea salt product would be fine, maybe beneficial if your diet was lacking sodium, but that is unlikely if you eat prepared food that is sold to the public.. people in north america have addictive personalities, imagine if drugs were legal, everyone who is fat, and doesnt have a medical reason for it would probably getting high instead of eating till they were obese.. eating shitty food isnt just accectable, its the norm.. and there is billions of dollars keeping it like that.. if you dont know, people that used to sell opium said fuck that and started shipping sugar..
 
Just to clarify...

People aren't effected by salt unless they are "salt sensitive." This occurs in like 5% of the population. (Source: an RD I had as a professor.)

Iodized salt isn't inherently bad for you. We do need iodine. The problem IMO is that the iodized salt doesn't have iodine--It has iodide. Iodine is the natural version, iodide is the synthetic.

Also, the salt added to processed food is NOT iodized salt unless specified on the label (since iodide would be another ingredient).

We do need some salt in our diet. We don't need nearly as much as most of us get. We do need iodine in our diet. Iodized salt is good for people who are going to use salt anyways and who do not eat natural sources of iodine. So what are some natural sources of iodine, you say? Well:

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Taken from here.
 
iodine?

Im sure adding iodine to salt works about as well as adding germ to wheat or anything fortified for that matter.. I don't think its reasonable that the iodine added to table salt is as available as it is in its naturally occuring state.. iodine may be an exception for some reason..
 
Iodine is NOT added to salt. Iodide is what is added to iodized salt. Please reread what I typed out up there.

And for what it's worth, wheat is made up of the germ, endospe... why am I even bothering? 8( j0nblaze, please check your facts before posting.
 
i was just saying

Its likely that whatever iodine is in salt probably isn't as useful as the same amount from seaweed. And in general adding nutrients to things doesn't necessarily make them nutritious. That's what I was trying to add..
 
K, you've redeemed yourself by saying that "in general adding nutrients to things doesn't necessarily make them nutritious." 'Cause it's true. It doesn't necessarily and we won't know the effects of all this tampering with our food (bleaching flour to make it white then fortifying it, etc) for awhile yet. But that's a different story.

This thread is on whether salt can make you feel better.

Not sure where we can go from here aside from subjective anecdotal evidence.

Figure I'll leave this open for a few more days, see if the OP comes back or anyone adds anything beneficial.
 
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