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Salt

Salt, chemically known as sodium chloride (NaCl), is a mineral substance that is vital for the body's normal function. It is an essential nutrient involved in maintaining fluid balance, nerve conduction, and muscle function. Salt is also used in food preservation and flavoring.

Category
Mineral Supplement
Molecular Formula
NaCl
Mechanism of Action
Salt contributes to fluid balance and the transmission of nerve signals. It also plays a role in the contraction and relaxation of muscles.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Sodium Chloride
  • Table Salt
  • Sea Salt
  • Rock Salt

Primary Benefits

  • Maintains fluid balance
  • Facilitates nerve transmission
  • Helps in muscle contraction

Recommended Dosage

Adults The American Heart Association recommends no more than 2,300 milligrams (mg) a day and an ideal limit of no more than 1,500 mg per day for most adults.

Side Effects

  • High Blood Pressure
  • Heart Disease
  • Stroke
  • Kidney Disease

Precautions

  • People with high blood pressure, kidney diseases, or those who are sensitive to salt should moderate their intake.
  • Pregnant and breastfeeding women should consult a doctor before increasing salt intake.

Interactions

  • Diuretics
  • Steroids
  • NSAIDs
  • Blood pressure medications

Key References

  • American Heart Association
  • World Health Organization
  • Mayo Clinic
167 – Gary Taubes: Bad science and challenging the conventional wisdom of obesity
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“he took credit not just for getting Americans to eat less salt but eat less fat as well for the low-fat diet we had all been on since 1984.”

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Optimizing Women's Wellness Through Nutrition, Exercise, and Hormone Health 29:47 0
“if you're getting that real food in then you're also getting you know your magnesium and your potassium and your sodium and all the things that people supposedly lose and you're able to also repair a lot better.”

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239 ‒ The science of strength, muscle, and training for longevity | Andy Galpin, Ph.D. (PART I)
Optimal Ways to Enhance Longevity Through Exercise and Nutrition 1:57:36 0
“Those six come just from taking straight water pure s that that is the sodium complete sodium restriction.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:20:19 0
“It's also important that you get adequate electrolytes. The electrolytes sodium, magnesium, and potassium are vital for the functioning of all the cells in your body, especially your neurons or your nerve cells.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:10:40 0
“let me Define exercise for you let me just I'll just give you a little framework and I'll start by saying something inflammatory the shoulder is not that complicated it doesn't do that many things goes overhead MH goes out to the side goes in the front it goes in the back that's what your shoulder does you can bend the elbow you can twist and all those shapes but those are the four fundamental primary organizations of the shape of the of the shoulder hip has flection extension right really I could I can go laterally but that's just a different kind of squat but really like am I squatting with the foot really narrow or my squat a little bit wider so what we can then do is say in these fundamental bookends these benchmarks this what we call archetype suddenly I can ask well how are you loading your overhead position so if you're always pressing on a bar or pulling on a lat down machine you actually are overhead but you're not in the fullest expression over overhead right which is your arms straight up and down parallel by your ears hands over the top of…”

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Understanding Hormonal Influence on Hunger, Satiety, and Metabolic Health 32:02 0
“It also contains electrolytes so we meaning our neurons and our brain run on a variety of factors electrical activity and chemical transmission Etc but they require adequate levels of sodium potassium and magnesium.”

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The Simple Blueprint to Reverse Disease
Optimizing Health Through Natural Lifestyle and Nutritional Adjustments 45:02 0
“seed oils are the worst incarnation of these polyunsaturated fats in my belief because they are refined bleached and deodorized extracted with hexane sodium hydroxide horrible horrible things that end up being residual in the actual seed oils”

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Challenging Health Myths: Nutrition, Heart Health, and Gut Microbiome Insights 21:53 0
“But one of the problems with iodized salt is it only works if you are a very enthusiastic consumer of salt.”

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“if you were to take a cup and scoop it out of a running stream and you were to analyze what's in that water you would find high mineral content first of all and not just potassium and magnesium and sodium the big ones that are in most electrolyte supplements you would find all of the other Trace metal Boron zinc selenium manganese”

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“it's a quote unquote healthy restaurant we tend to eat about 300 more calories when we go out than when we eat at home and those calories tend to be more sugar and salt Laden and full of things that aren't so good for us”

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Rethinking Nutrition: Meat, Deception, Health Shifts, and Dietary Innovations 9:11 0
“I cut out all plants ate meat organs salt and animal fat for a year and a half ximo gets better right never get a recurrence but a year and a half into it run into problems with long-term ketosis”

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Insights on Managing Metabolism, Weight, Diet, Exercise, and Sleep 1:46:27 0
“the first Research into sodium bicarbonate was based on theoretical inference and they were like this has to buffer acid in a way that really makes your uh short-term endurance 400 800 meter like really profoundly better and they dosed it nice and high and they realized it predictably causes explosive uncontrollable diarrhea”

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“couple examples creamy sauces to non-creamy sauces to dry rubs to Salt only when you're real miserable tons of rice and pasta and uh breads down to whole grain breads whole grain pasta brown rice”

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“it's sustainable to the degree that they're willing to adopt a whole plant food sos free diet.”

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Optimize health and reverse aging with fasting and nutrition tips 35:09 0
“the problem for people trying to lose weight if they're eating salted foods usually too the salted foods are things like flour products that are turned into breads or crackers or cookies that are also hyper concentrated in calories but the salt will allow them to eat more think about bread if you take the salt out of bread it's and and you take out the sugar it's called matzah well you know it's they have to eat it once a year and on passover and that's it because that's the only time you'll talk nobody's running out buying big boxes of lots as a routine because it's flour and water it doesn't taste good because any highly fractionated food needs salt oil and sugar or combinations in order to increase flavor that's what chefs are is people that take hyper-concentrated foods and add salt oil and sugar to it and deliver it to the palate so it stimulates the brain in the most intense way possible we're saying get away from all that”

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Understanding the Impact of Fasting on Health and Nutrition Benefits 11:39 0
“we add chemicals to our food specifically to induce dopamine stimulation in our brain those those chemicals are salt oil and sugar these are not Foods they're food byproducts they're hyper-concentrated food biparts are essentially chemicals we're putting in the food that stimulate more dopamine”

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Understanding the Impact of Fasting on Health and Nutrition Benefits 1:53:35 0
“it's a miracle medicine really yeah because it's an herbal medicine and has power that people don't know about just like so many other foods have power but this one particularly it has a sodium cluster salt so something called sodium cluster salts that's a pathogen killer that's different than Salt it's different than sea salt or anything else”

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“if you take an 85 year old and you put them on a ketogenic diet you mind up seeing him pass out the day after right so enough fluid and salt”

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Enhancing Eye Health Through Lifestyle Choices and Preventative Measures 38:03 0
“your ideal eyewash is actually going to be a sterile saline solution a saltwater solution that you know they sell little bottles over the- counter uh eyewash Solutions like that a lot of people wear contacts will have that kind of eyewash solution just a sterile saline eyewash just pure salt water doesn't have to have any other chemicals or preservatives in it”

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Dangers of Artificial Food Additives and Health-Conscious Dietary Choices 38:21 0
“MSG is added to Chick-fil-A so that you remember the flavor your mouth starts watering you want to have that sandwich.”

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Dangers of Artificial Food Additives and Health-Conscious Dietary Choices 40:46 0
“you've got McDonald's in the UK three ingredients and then salt is optional very simple here in the United States it's over 14 and you've got the chemical called dimethyl polysiloxane.”

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“many people do experience the so-called keto flu when they are shifting from a carbohydrate based system to a fat-based metabolism and some of this can be prevented in a couple of different ways one is with electrolyte supplementation supplementing electrolytes to keep your salt balance even as you're transitioning and another is by transitioning slowly onto the ketogenic diet rather than all at once.”

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“processing gone bad is when you've change the nutrient profile of a food such that it is unhealthy so in simple terms it's too much saturated fat, too much salt, too little fiber, too little bioactives like polyphenols.”

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“we have to get rid of fluoride you know just this past weekend I was speaking at a dental conference in Salt Lake City and there were there people there from the National Toxicology Program which in the US is the organization tasked with if there's any kind of risk of exposure of environmental toxicant they're charged with doing the toxicology studies to see if there's an increased risk what is the risk and is there a safe level that is without risk and what they report is that fluoride there's no benefit of fluoride and it's all risk it lowers IQ in kids by as much as seven points and it shuts down your thyroid function and it's a neurotoxin”

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“excess sodium, too much salt, which can be present in a lot of restaurant foods.”

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“High sodium levels actually speeds up, accelerates our cellular aging, so we actually age faster.”

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“sodium is a high risk for hypertension, high blood pressure, inflammation of the lining of your circulation and that that sets up for a lot of badness downstream when it comes to your health and it takes down your circulation um health defenses that we talked about.”

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“generally the foods that are cited are combinations of carbohydrate and fat usually there's other stuff involved there's flavorings there's salt in in the savory items like pizza or french fries”

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“stand like shouldn't i be wired to eat ribeye until the point of vomiting given how high it is in sodium fat and protein and total calories like the only thing it's missing is sugar and fiber and you know carbohydrates and things like that but it's easier for me to over eat baked potatoes than it is to overeat a ribeye”

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The Insulin & Glucose Doctor: This Will Strip Your Fat Faster Than Anything!
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“salt has be has earned a terrible reputation because of a series of studies that implicated salt consumption as a cause of high blood pressure”

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“it's because salt is not a key contributor to blood pressure it's actually insulin resistance insulin resistance will force the body to hold on to Salt insulin resistance will force the blood vessels to be very constricted all of which play together to make for a very high blood pressure”

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“salt restriction can cause insulin resistance in humans”

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“so with respect to cerin as I recall they deleted the cerin let's use another example of what the gold standard is here or what a great example is so so I recently did a podcast with Dina dubal from UCSF on clotho which is an amazing scientific story and it's a great story because it shows how accidents can lead to great discoveries right so there was a a researcher in Japan who was really interested in understanding hypertension high blood pressure and they had created a mouse model where they were trying to knock out certain sodium channels to see if they could perturb blood pressure and then there was this one strain of mouse with this one knockout that died really really quickly and it developed like devastating neurogen disease and died very quickly and you know like a good scientist he didn't say well that sucks I'm going to discard that one CU it didn't give me what I wanted which was the blood pressure change and he kind of went and figured out what was going on and he figured out that there was a certain Gene that he had hit that wasn't a sodium…”

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“They called 'sirtuins' and there are five of these genes in yeast and seven in our bodies. And they respond to low energy. They're respond to other stresses as well, such as high heat, low amino acids, high salt.”

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Maximizing Healthspan and Lifespan Through Vigorous Movement and Exercise 39:11 0
“patients with TBI that get infused with sodium lactate this actually improves TBI outcomes”

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Essential Insights for Health and Longevity Through Diet and Lifestyle 13:46 0
“Also, when I sauna, when I'm physically active, I also drink electrolytes after that. And that's another. So you can have an electrolyte drink that replaces some of the lost sodium and magnesium potassium, for example.”

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