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if you had cravings for salty foods at

night especially this video is for you

and I’m talking about in the form of

popcorn peanuts pretzels chips I believe

the reason why you crave that is because

you actually are deficient in sodium

okay now why would you crave those foods

those junk foods and not just regular

salt well it’s similar to if a woman is

pregnant and she craves ice cream for

example she’s usually deficient in

calcium and there’s other people that

have some pretty strange cravings too

like for example dirt they might need

iron so apparently when you’re deficient

in something your body will cause the

craving to something that maybe

resembles that that mineral or nutrient

and this topic of salt is very

fascinating now realize that salt is

sodium chloride sodium is one of the

minerals so I’ll try to differentiate

between sodium and salt as we go through

this presentation but the World Health

Organization is advising that people

start lowering their salt intake to

about 2000 milligrams or less per day

and it would take about 1 teaspoon of

salt to achieve 2300 milligrams of

sodium so realize that the soul has the

chloride and there’s also requirements

for that but we’re gonna focus on sodium

right now and also salt now it is true

that Americans consume more than this

amount by a factor of a thousand so

they’re usually doing about 3,300

milligrams of salt per day but that’s

salt that they’re consuming is not

coming from the salt shaker it is coming

from the other foods with the hidden

salt in it the refined carbohydrates the

bread the cold cut deli meats so of

course someone along the line had this

idea that wow people are consuming too

much salt so it must be the salt that’s

the culprit is there a possibility that

could be the other ingredients that come

with the salt I mean before

refrigeration we salted our foods

successfully we consumed a lot more salt

in meats and other foods and our risk of

heart attacks back then even blood

pressure was a lot less than it is right

now but of course if you look at this

logically if you add more salt you have

more fluid have more blood pressure have

more heart attacks right that makes

sense logically

but there’s some fascinating studies

that I’m gonna put down below that I

highly recommend

you read if you’re on a low sodium or

low salt diet because what these studies

show in their very credible studies that

your risk for heart problems stroke

insulin resistance go up when you go on

a low salt diet and there’s another

study that I’m going to show down the

description that when you increase the

sodium in the diet the risk factors for

heart attack and stroke plummet why is

that well if you read the study you’re

gonna also find those people that were

increasing the sodium also we’re

increasing their potassium okay and it’s

the potassium that protects the heart I

mean it’s an incredible push to put

everyone that has high blood pressure or

heart problems on a low salt diet but

there’s hardly any emphasis on raising

the potassium levels or even more

importantly is removing the refined

carbs that are attached to the salt

their focus is to lower the salt as

insult free refined carbohydrate type

foods which leads to more consumption of

the refined carbohydrates that are now

salt free now this next part is very

very interesting if you’ve checked out

check back in right now because this

part is very very important your body

has a hormone called aldosterone that

has one vital purpose to retain and hold

sodium your body wouldn’t have this

hormone unless there was a very

important purpose of having sodium

without sodium your nerves cannot

conduct nerve impulses without sodium

your muscles can’t contract your fluids

would not be in balance okay you

wouldn’t be able to transport calcium

and other nutrients as well without

sodium there’s this thing called a

sodium potassium pump in nearly all of

your cells of your body that help

transport things through the cell

membrane very very important so this is

why the body has this hormone

aldosterone and take it well guess what

triggers aldosterone a low sodium or low

salt diet okay so your body will make

three times as much aldosterone

when you’re on a low-sodium diet if you

think about blood pressure medication

there’s several medications that work by

blocking aldosterone okay or a diuretic

which will cause an excess release of

sodium and water through the urine and

as a side note older people lose this

function in other words they don’t have

the amount of aldosterone to hold the

sodium so usually they’re a very very

deficient in sodium I mean the side

effects from not having enough sodium

are way worse than having too much

sodium so if you combine someone on a

salt-free diet okay on diuretics then we

have the excessive amount of water and

I’m talking about people that are

drinking massive amounts of water not

eight or ten glasses I’m talking about

like a gallon in a day and they’re not

working out and they’re on a salt-free

diet that can be very very dangerous to

the heart you need sodium for the heart

to work for your muscles to work when

you’re on a ketogenic diet you need more

salt as well because when you’re on the

typical diet which is high carbohydrate

you’re retaining a lot of fluid you’re

holding more salt okay when you’re on

keto you get rid of the excess fluid and

you also get rid of some of these

minerals so you need to put them back in

exercise produces sweat and you’re gonna

lose sodium through exercise and of

course being out in the heat will do it

as well a pro football player could

potentially lose up to six thousand

milligrams of sodium in ninety minutes

if you have liver damage as in cirrhosis

you could actually be deficient in

sodium with adrenal fatigue you’re gonna

have low sodium this is why like for

example in conditions like Addison’s

disease where they don’t have enough

adrenal hormones you always see a severe

deficiency of sodium and these people

have to consume a ton of salt and you’re

also going to see a sodium deficiency in

hypothyroidism I would recommend

consuming at a minimum between 1 and 1.5

teaspoons of sea salt per day if you

increase your salt you should get rid of

the cravings for salty junk foods at

night and it would be very very

beneficial for you to take one average

day of eating and analyze how much salt

you’re actually consuming or how much

sodium you’re consuming

and just compare it to this to see if

you’re really under or you’re over and

and also to see if you actually crave

salty foods at night and then you can

make adjustments on that as well because

there is a lot of salt in the food that

you’re eating already

we just want to know how much you need

to add to that to meet your requirements

you’re also going to notice that your

energy is gonna go up you have more

endurance because the cardiovascular

system will function better the other

important thing to realize is that the

sodium works with potassium okay in the

body so we always have this ratio if

you’re increasing more sodium you need

to increase more potassium we need 4700

milligrams

very few people consume in this amount

if you’re consuming this amount you

absolutely positively do not need to

worry how much salt that you’re

consuming because it you’re gonna have

enough to act as a buffer and one way to

achieve that is to increase your

vegetable amounts okay 7 to 10 cups of

vegetables per day it’s not that hard

you have two salads I do all my sell in

one sitting I have one large bowl and

it’s roughly between 7 and 10 cups some

people can’t do that

there are vegetable substitutes you can

do to enhance your vegetables I’ll put

some links down below but you do need to

start increasing this in the diet

because this will also give you the

magnesium and a lot of people put sea

salt on their salad which I highly

recommend or they might put salty olives

or Parmesan cheese which is salty or

other cheeses that would be a very very

good idea and lastly if you’re in a low

salt diet because your doctor told you

you need to be on one send your doctor

the studies that I put down below to

have them just take a look at it because

this is quite fascinating where you have

these diets that talk about the risk

factors for high blood pressure and

heart problems go down when you increase

more salt it’s really because you’re

increasing this the potassium as well

alright guys there you have it these are

the action steps

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