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let’s talk about the seven signs that

you may be consuming too much salt it’s

very rare to have someone consume too

much salt

in reality the person is really just

potassium deficient so I will explain

but let’s just go through these symptoms

real quick the first one is edema in

your eyes

in your hands or your feet or lower legs

because sodium is retaining water and

you’re becoming waterlogged another sign

would be you’re thirsty okay why are you

thirsty because your body is telling you

you need to drink more water to dilute

the excess sodium another one is high

blood pressure because you’re retaining

salt and water and that increases more

volume in your blood and you only have

so much space so if we increase the

volume the pressure is going to increase

then we get headache probably because of

the pressure from the volume of blood in

your brain then you have restlessness or

irritability and then the last two are

nausea and fatigue now it’s just

important to also now review

a sodium deficiency those symptoms just

so you can compare because you’re going

to find out there are more problems with

the deficiency than there are with the

excess let me explain number one if

you’re division in sodium you’re going

to feel weak especially if you try to

exercise or climb a hill number two you

might have low blood pressure why

because there’s just not enough volume

of blood because you don’t have the

sodium to retain the fluid and number

three you’ll have an increase in various

neurotransmitters like adrenaline that’s

the stress hormone as well as other

hormones which then can lead to vascular

stiffness which will then increase the

blood pressure but there’s another thing

that can worsen blood pressure

low sodium can lead to higher levels of

insulin and insulin resistance this is

the unintended consequences of going on

a low salt diet so here you are trying

to fix your high blood pressure by

lowering your sodium and then you end up

with more insulin okay and more insulin

resistance which actually causes high

blood pressure I mean what you need to

know is the most common underlying cause

of high blood pressure is insulin

resistance because it’ll make your

arteries very stiff

and there’s many things that can

contribute to that high carb diet eating

too frequently as well as a low sodium

diet the treatment that they do for high

blood pressure is diuretics which

basically cause you to lose in sodium as

well as potassium people that are salt

sensitive or have symptoms of too much

sodium are really potassium deficient

potassium and sodium always work

together okay one buffers the other and

you actually need twice as much

potassium as you do sodium but rarely

does anyone get that because they don’t

consume enough foods high in potassium

as in vegetables salads Etc you would

have to consume at least seven cups of

salad to achieve even a closer number of

your potassium that you need and know

you can’t get potassium from eating

bananas because one banana equals 300

milligrams so you would have to consume

well over 12 or 13 or 14 15 bananas and

then to get all that sugar on top of it

is not going to be healthy so with

sodium you need 2300 milligrams for an

average person and then for potassium

it’s 4 700 milligrams right more than

twice as much now there’s another little

piece of this puzzle that I think is

also valid and very interesting and it

has to do with insulin insulin is a

hormone that’s triggered by carbs and

Insulin will compensate for sodium let

me explain let’s say you don’t have

enough sodium okay and so what the body

will then do is increase insulin to help

retain sodium and that’s why diabetics

who normally have a lot of insulin in

their body at least initially if they’re

a type 2 and to retain a lot of sodium

so what happens in the kidneys when you

lower your salt is that you increase

this insulin and you can even create

insulin resistance what do you need to

know about this glucose sugar refined

carbs

high carb diet okay causes you to retain

sodium and now you know why through the

help of insulin now on top of that

glucose that’s stored in your liver and

your muscles as glycogen also has a lot

of storage of potassium in other words

it takes potassium to store glucose as

glycogen now what’s the significance of

that well just realize that the higher

the carbohydrate in your diet the more

potassium you’re going to lock up and

store away and become deficient in

because that potassium is unavailable so

not only are we going to have like an

exaggerated sodium problem retention

we’re just not going to have the

potassium to buffer it out because that

darn glucose is locking up that

potassium and so we have a dietary

deficiency problem with with potassium

which actually makes you more salt

sensitive it makes sodium be exaggerated

and then on top of that adding a high

carb diet makes everything worse and

this is why diabetics who don’t consume

enough potassium are really in trouble

they have a lot of swelling you’ll look

look at their ankles look at their feet

they’re just like really puffy and their

eyes are always swollen their their

hands they can’t get their rings off

they can’t close their hands and it’s so

simple all they need to do is lower the

carbs in their diet and add more

potassium foods or a good electrolyte

with a lot of potassium and Bam their

blood sugars do better and their fluid

gets better and now they’re no longer

salt sensitive don’t be afraid of taking

salt because we need a certain amount of

sodium in the diet and as sodium

chloride but not just sodium chloride we

need the whole mineral balance and

that’s why you should always consume sea

salt but for those people that have high

blood pressure and want to take the salt

but want one extra awesome thing you

could do there’s a type of salt out

there it’s called Baja gold salt it’s a

type of sea salt with lower amounts of

sodium okay let me explain when you have

sea salt you have to realize that 95 of

that sea salt is sodium chloride and

then you have the rest of the minerals

and trace minerals right Baja gold salt

it’s at a location on the planet where

you have the merging of fresh water

which is non-sea salt water with sea

water together we have the salt that

accumulates with only 70 sodium chloride

and the rest of the other minerals so

when you actually consume the salt you

have a much much greater amount of these

other minerals and I’m talking about

potassium magnesium and all the trace

minerals in a little bit less sodium

chloride and it’s really delicious on

your food I’ll put a link down below for

more information on that but you should

know about it the next most important

thing to know is about potassium and for

that information you have to watch this

video right here