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now to a lot of people what i’m going to say  is new information we are so used to hearing  

that salt’s bad for the heart it’s going to  cause a heart attack it’s going to cause stroke  

so make sure you don’t overdo it on your salt  well that is absolutely positively not true a very  

credible large study called the peer study stirred  up a lot of controversy there’s over 137 000  

people involved in 18 countries 667 communities so  it was a very broad population all over the place  

and this is what they found if you’re consuming  less than three grams of sodium per day you  

could be at risk for getting a heart attack and a  stroke now take a look at this graph that i have  

right here the world health organizations and and  many other organizations have been recommending  

to keep your salt in the low range between 2.0 and  2.4 grams that’s one teaspoon per day well just  

what happens that falls within the risk factor  of getting a heart attack that is considered low  

sodium and based on this study which i’m going to  put a link down below the optimum range of sodium  

is between four and five grams that’s four to five  teaspoons of salt apparently you have the least  

amount of heart attacks compared to either too low  or even too high and they also incidentally found  

that potassium is very protective on the heart the  more potassium you have the less heart attacks you  

have and i’ve been saying that for a long time  potassium is very very important especially for  

blood pressure even your kidneys i mean the only  contraindications i’m sure there’s a few others  

for potassium is if you’re stage five kidney  failure in that condition of course you don’t  

want to consume that much potassium but for most  people potassium is protective on the kidney heart  

and definitely will help your blood pressure now  the question is why well when you actually lower  

your sodium you increase a hormone called  aldosterone that’s from your adrenals and  

if aldosterone’s too high you can have a lot  of problems especially with blood pressure  

especially damage to the heart there’s even  a class of high blood pressure medication  

that inhibits aldosterone okay why because they  found that the higher the aldosterone the higher  

the blood pressure so in summary don’t be afraid  of salt especially if it’s sea salt i recommend a  

very good quality sea salt himalayan sea salt  is a really good one but there’s many others  

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