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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going to talk about the sodium

Neff oh my gosh this is a big one you know there’s people that say that sodium

is the worst thing you can consume but let’s take a look at this they’ve only

done one study that shows any relationship between high blood pressure

and consuming sodium and it was called the - sodium study but they failed to

kind of omit unless you read the study they didn’t tell you they also lower the

sugar in their diets the glucose so honestly that’s really what created the

lower blood pressure more than the salt okay so even a recent study that

involves 6,000 people showed that there is no strong evidence in relationship

between eating salt or sodium and increasing blood pressure now why would

that be simply because sodium is an essential mineral what does that mean it

means you it’s necessary for survival you can’t live without sodium but you

need to have it in the right amounts we need about a thousand milligrams a day

that’s probably a quarter teaspoon a day of salt but realize that salt is sodium

chloride not just sodium so about half of that sodium chloride is sodium okay

so you need a little bit more salt than you do sodium so I’ll show you what kind

to get in a second but but the point is that we need this sodium to regulate

your heart your fluids it acts like an electrolyte that allows the balance of

fluid and it controls the volume of fluid through your body so it works with

other minerals to maintain that balance so without that essential mineral you

have all sorts of problems with your muscle your heart

your brain you need that number two I’m sorry number three low sodium in the

blood there’s a condition of low sodium the blood called hyponatremia now what

is that that’s just simply low sodium in the

blood and that’s from drinking lots of water that people tell you to do and

very little salt so the doctors like don’t need salt drink a lot of water

you’re just flushing out the electrolyte so you’re going to end up with a very

low sodium in the blood which you’re setting yourself up for a lot of heart

problems swelling in the brain can people die of hyponatremia so that

you if you have never seen though my water myth video watch that because too

much water is not not good you want to drink when you’re thirsty so how do you

know if you need sodium well do you crave salt then you need it

okay fluid retention now if you have fluid retention in your legs or your

fingers or your body obviously there’s there’s probably too much sodium in your

body but so instead of reducing sodium it’s much more important to raise the

other electrolyte that sodium works with and that’s called potassium we need

about four times a little more than four times the amount of potassium then we do

sodium where do you get potassium vegetables do you eat enough vegetables

probably not some people have two cups today you need actually seven to eight

to nine cups to get the potassium to balance out the sodium because an

average person consumes about thirty four hundred milligrams of sodium and

only a thousand milligrams of potassium so the ratios are off so they will get

fluid retention in some period of time and so what you don’t want to do is you

don’t want to worry about lowering yourself just increase your potassium

and don’t have the hidden salts that a lot of people are exposed to the MSG

monosodium glutamate from fast-food restaurants eating sugar depletes

potassium and retain sodium that’s why you can gain a water a pound of water

after consuming some sugar so again it’s the junk food it’s the msg that that

increases the sodium and by the way you never want to consume one mineral by

itself you want to consume it in a complex like sea salt

okay versus just taking sodium all right so now we have talked about fluid of

tension low adrenal glands if your adrenal glands are burnt out you’re not

going to have the hormone specifically there’s hormone called aldosterone

there’s one called there’s a bunch of them called mineral corticoids which are

hormones that regulate minerals specifically salt potassium so what

happens with the adrenal is you lose salt so you crave salt let’s say at

night you get home and you’re burnt out you’re tired and you’re craving salt so

you consume sea salt then you probably want some sweet and some salt

together because people that are low in minerals are also have low blood sugar

issues if glucose issues so your just when you consume that your energy starts

coming up your cells are trying to demand it but really it’s an adrenal

situation okay so what type of salt is the best Himalayan salt is the best salt

why because it’s salt from a mountaintop which used to be an ocean a long time

ago it’s the most pure unpolluted sea salt you don’t want to get the sea salt

that is in the current environment now because you’re just getting a lot of

sewage in there and a lot of chemicals so get pink Himalayan salt

there is a black Himalayan salt that you could get which high in sulfur the only

thing with that is it tastes like eggs okay and a lot of people don’t like the

taste if you can stand it and put on your eggs that would be a much better

salt it’s called black Himalayan salt because that sulfur is really good for

the liver it’s good for a detoxifying mineral it’s good for a lot of skin

conditions but again it has a bad odor to it some people can’t do it but think

about what sulfur is in its in all the cruciferous it’s in kale broccoli

Brussels sprouts cabbage it’s all the sulfur type minnow so definitely

radishes that actually help detoxify the liver so if you can stand it go ahead

and get it if not get the pink version but go ahead and use that and use it

don’t be afraid to use it as long as you increase your potassium with your

vegetables you’re totally okay all right I’ll see you in the next video