Sat, Jul-01-17, 17:54
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Senior Member
Posts: 3,199
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Plan: High protein, lower fat
Stats: 000/000/145
BF:276, 255 hi wts
Progress: 0%
Location: Michigan U.P., USA
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Why are people putting it on their tongue instead of in water? I tried a fourth tsp of ground Him pink salt like that and I thought it was awful.
I'm going to buy this book after reading all the available pages on Amazon. I generally feel pretty crappy when I fast from not putting enough salt in my bone broth, I suspect. And interestingly, I have been on a real cottage cheese kick for my main meal, which just happens to have 1000 mg per cup.
I typed this out from the excerpts:
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"Scientists have found that, among all populations when people are left to unrestricted sodium consumption, they tend to settle in at 3, 000 to 4,000 milligrams per day. This amount holds true for people in all hemispheres, all climates, all range of cultures and social backgrounds--when permitted free access to salt, all humans gravitate to the same threshold of salt consumption, a threshold we now know is the sodium-intake range for optimum health. ...
Heart rate is proven to increase on a low salt diet. ...And what has a bigger impact on your health: a one-point reduction in blood pressure, or a four-beat-per-minute increase in heart rate?...
Recent research even suggests that chronic salt depletion may be a factor in what endocrinologists term "internal starvation." When you start restricting your salt intake, the body starts to panic. One of the body's defense mechanisms is to increase insulin levels, because insulin helps the kidneys retain more sodium. Unfortunately, high insulin levels also "lock" energy into your fat cells, so that you have trouble breaking down stored fat into fatty acids or stored protein into amino acids for energy. When your insulin levels are elevated, the only macronutrient that you can effectively utilize for energy is carbohydrate.
See where this is headed?
You start craving sugar and refined carbs like crazy, because your body believes that carbohydrate is your only viable energy source. ...
What's clear is that we have been focusing on the wrong white crystal all along. ...
From an evolutionary standpoint, evidence does not suggest that we evolved on a low salt diet."
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Besides all the animal parts that have salt that would have been eaten in the ancestral diet,
Tiger nuts: 3,383 mg of sodium in 100 grams.
Grasshoppers: 152 mg of sodium per 5 crickets.
I bought tiger nut flour to make dough balls, but never did. I'm feeling a bit more motivated now.
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