Nice to see a nephrologist take this on. A study did show an upper intake of 12,000mg (~3.5 teaspoons) of salt per day increased mortality due to heart disease. The "middle ground" allows for safe and beneficial intake in excess of current recommendations. It's important to point out the difference between refined salt (which is just processed sodium chloride with preservatives like sodium ferrocyanide, ammonium citrate, or aluminum citrate) and unrefined salt (which is balanced with many other essential elements). I don't believe any studies have factored that variable, particularly over time, but it's an important one.
@@jgrysiak6566 Meat and dairy dosen't clog arteries. You're probably reffering to the staurated fat myth wich has been disproven by randomized controll trials.
I've seen a study where you were better off overconsuming salt than consuming how much WHO reccomands wich is quite funny. But i got a question, are these trace minerals that you get from unrefined salts like the pink himalayan salt like not found in any other food? at least some of them? Or refined salt is only bad due to these preservatives?
@@lovely7983 Everything you've said is false. The newest research is proving just the opposite. In fact your liver produces the vast majority of cholesterol in your body. You are quoting big pharma's lies to promote the use of statins. Do more up to date research; check out Dr.Ken Berry's youtube channel.
I told my doctor I quit taking statins, he warned against this. I told him I got this. Continued to exercise and eat right. Last visit my LDL was 69, and my Blood pressure was 117/65. He didn't want to talk about it. LOL
Exactly! But not funny for all those who follow the advice influenced by Big Pharma. Statins and anti hypertensive drugs are multibillion dollar business. Best wishes.
Salt is the most natural mineral to consume. We need salt for electrolytes, and normalisation of blood pressure and other blood markers. 🤓 Whatever big pharma or big food point to as bad, just do the opposite 😃
One of the very many lies we've been told. At one stage, when doing lots of physical work in the heat I had to take salt tablets on top of hving lots of salt to stop muscles cramping up. Yes I know lack of magnesium causes muscles knotting up, but salt stop them cramping up 😊
My endocrinologist gave me the sack and told me not to come back. Because I said I took salt tablets when I feel sick. That makes me feel better immediately. But he called me non-compliant and got furious with me. Hyponatraemia. What a dinosaur!
I remember we were walking in the Pyrenees. One day our legs became rubbery and we couldn't walk further, still had miles to go. My gf and I took glucose, but that wasn't helpful. Then I remembered I'd brought salt pills with me. Ten minutes later we went again, effortlessly 👫
Soooo true! And yet, doctors are still advising less and less salt. Salt is so good, important and needed that in ancient times, they used to pay people and trade for salt. That's where the saying "Not worth his weight in salt" comes from.😊 Thanks for posting these great videos!
@@jgrysiak6566Interesting point. I have to say, that I don't crave sugar anymore (thankfully) but I do salt. I've learned how terrible sugar is for us. Don't need it, don't want it 😊
@@jgrysiak6566 LOL you are so wrong. Sugar and starch (which becomes sugar after entering your body anyway) cause high blood pressure, heart diseases, type 2 diabetes. I learned it the hard way. Salt, on the other hand, is healthy.
Also, elephants will travel very long distances to get to the salt licks. They do it bc it's vital to keep them Alive. Nature has programmed their instincts to seek this vital mineral.
The same erroneous thinking, which falsely identified cholesterol as the cause of heart disease, is the same error in judgement that has demonized salt, and implicated it in high blood pressure. Like most maladies that afflict us, the causes are multi-factorial. Chances are, when a substance, which we have eaten in significant quantities for millennia, and which never caused problems, is all of a sudden vilified as the cause of a modern pervasion of disease, the person making the assertion is not looking at the broader context. Salt or cholesterol is not the problem. Its the metabolic milieu that weaponizes these benign and beneficial substances which is the problem.
A high sugar diet is what contributes to heart disease and high blood pressure. Fructose in the diet gets converted to triglycerides in the liver, and in time results in fatty liver, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, obesity, and high blood pressure - a result of high systemic insulin needed to "force" cells to accept excessive blood sugar. Salt gets the blame for the blood pressure despite these facts. The whole "cholesterol is bad" propaganda fed billions of dollars into the pharma industry for decades as long as the patents on statins allowed big profits. Anyone who doesn't know this is at best uninformed, at worst a shill.
@@lovely7983 Lipoprotein are actually what is in plaque and it is through inflammation of the blood vessel lining that causes formation. Triglycerides/HDL has a stronger predictive value. The reason so-called plant based diets work is due to elimination of inflammatory foods common in most diets. The elimination is so extreme that while all the bad foods are eliminated, so are the foods the actually are not bad. Cholesterol is so well-regulated that eating more of it is entirely irrelevant to managing levels and thus eating meat will not harm homeostasis.
My blood pressure isn’t bad but has gone up some recently. I mentioned it to my cardiologist last week. He told me that decreasing salt intake was important. I’m in Japan. 😞
Am a salt-aholic & when I used to see my PCP, he’d say you ‘need to cut down on salt’. I’d respond that ‘it’s white coat hypertension’, because I monitor my BP at home & it’s fine (I have an aversion to doctors for very substantial reasons). He’d answer ‘I’m not wearing a white coat’. Needless to say I don’t see any physician unless absolutely necessary & do not participate in the customary managed care medical practices; seems like their findings are antiquated.
Human is the only animal species who is obsessed with constantly monitoring their physiological functions to convince themselves they are fine "medically". It is really sad though. Other living species on the earth, meanwhile, just get on with life and enjoy what God has delivered to them. Except humans, other living creatures on this earth make peace with death while humans fight and deny death as inevitable event. May God guide us. Blessing to everyone.
@@nikkion2140 - Appreciate your perspective. 🙏🏻 We are conditioned to do so especially in the west; BIG PHARMA is everywhere. The managed care aspect seems to be one of ordering tests or referring to other practitioners in order to generate funds. The financial bottom line is all that seems to matter to most.
Sodium is essential, chloride is essential therefore yes, salt (sodium chloride) is essential. Lowering sodium will do absolutely nothing to ameliorate high blood pressure (idiopathic hypertension), that is the result of high insulin and the Randle Cycle, i.e. chronically elevated blood glucose. Ameliorate it by not pouring carbohydrates down your neck.
@@TehKaiser , fish have cholesterol & saturated fat like an animal. Now they are swimming in dirty rivers, lakes, oceans, dirty farm raised pens, full of pollution & mercury. Check Dr. McDougall website for red light foods.
Chiropractors ARE doctors. They just arent part of the allopathic version of doctor that the AMA / Big Health tries to convince us are the only ones. That isnt so.
I’m more confused than ever after reading the comments. lol The problem always is that for anybody that has great success with cutting out or adding anything to a diet is that we never get the whole picture from just one comment. Things like how old is the person, what has their diet been like for their whole life, does their family have any genetic strength or weakness for one thing or another, what foods are available in their region,etc. We just can’t get that kind of big picture view from comments or anecdotal evidence. I live in Japan, btw and my Japanese wife has great BP, while mine has been historically a bit high(in the recent few years when I’ve checked it). We eat the same dinner - she eats a light breakfast while I tend to not eat breakfast, and our lunches differ, and have been married and eaten like this for the past 15 years. For the past few years I have gone hard core on low carb consistently but there has been no perceivable improvement to BP. (Also I am at about 17% body fat) My Japanese doctor said to reduce salt. When trying to significantly increase potassium and decrease salt this resulted in a perceptible electrolyte imbalance and no decrease of BP. Also Keto and Carnivore diets did not really work for me either. So I’m just going to stick with a moderate, eat a bit of everything diet while continuing 16/8 Intermittent Fasting. I definitely will not be afraid of salt, but I won’t be piling it on either. I am so done with diets in general. I will definitely stay away from vegetable oils and sugar though - and when I do eat carbs I will be sure they are as pure as possible. For seafood, meat, butter, and cheese - I’ll eat small amounts of these every now and then - but again I have begun to understand the importance of variety and moderation. Hopefully this coupled with regular exercise will lead to a lower BP. Maybe my past failures to lower BP while on low carb were due to not enough salt- but frankly I am just tired of testing and confirming that right now. Maybe someday I’ll give it a shot.
I can say from my own experience and experience of my mom, eating less salt helps high blood pressure patients. It saved her life and keep my pressure lower. If you have high blood pressure, eat less salt.
I avoid added salt and eat almost no processed food ever. If I eat salt, except for very minimal amounts, my blood pressure soars from low blood pressure to hypertension. I have tested this several times. I never had problems with blood pressure until I started adding salt.
@@Lycurgus47 Good question. Eat at home 99% of the time with salt used 50% less than used in the restaurant cooking. Processed food eating almost never, fresh vegetables, egg, or fish cooking at home only. except when a few occasions someone brought food as gift, even then just a bite. My point is, if you have high blood pressure (much above normal), eating less salt helped me much. If you are in good health with no high blood pressure, that is different, and good for you.
@@elbarca223 Someone suggested taking a potassium supplement with regular sodium salt, since, apparently, it is the imbalance between sodium and potassium that causes high blood pressure (BP). Could you test this, please? Someone else suggested it might be because certain people's kidneys do not filter the salt effectively. (Context: I'm interested in this for my father (high BP when eating salt; barely healthy kidneys). And because I have reason to believe I have his kidney genes.)
You have no idea how much salt folks in rural Philippines are eating every single meal everyday. Salt comes in the form of table salt, bagoong, tuyo or salted dried fish, and salt-based toyo or soy sauce. Those are fairly staple and majority cannot even take a meal without any of these items around. And despite having good masculine bodies due to mostly manual works many succumbed early to hypertension at young ages.
4 months ago I was diagnosed with hypertension with a BP of 153/103 at doctor's office. As of today, I've lost almost 30 pounds and my blood pressure is close to normal. I also no longer snore. I attribute this to the weigh loss and exercise and not so much the
You are averaging almost 2lbs a week- more initially I am sure in that first month. Be very careful. You can lose a gallbladder that way- usually if over 2lbs. I did.
If you have high triglycerides which came from insulin resistance, your blood has to move that sticky substance that is high viscosity, of course resulting to high blood pressure to push it.
I am having high blood pressure . For more than six months I avoided salt and I was ok. No blood pressure at all. But my doctor said that there may be situation where I cannot avoid normal food containing salt then I will be in trouble. So take minimum medicine for protection from effect of high blood pressure. So I am taking some medicine. But know it from me that if you can avoid common salt you can avoid blood pressure. Every thing else is humbug.
Ok this is interesting…. Especially seeing as years ago my gut doctor ( I have crohns and no large intestine) and very specifically , my GI doctor from OHSU, said I would be able to eat more salt than normal and would need more than normal non crohns people Never really thought about it until seeing this
@@aclassmedicine3306 I noticed my sweat is not salty. Alarm bells but I did nothing about it. It causes so much problems. I am now taking salt and will report back when I get better.
I cannot tolerate even a little bit of added salt now. Since this past May I have gotten worse. I started out getting an unquenchable thirst after a pizza slice and now I cannot even tolerate a few pieces of cheese. I have no choice but to cut sodium for now. This video' advice cannot be applied to everyone. I may be able to eat salty foods again in the future, but for now I have to avoid it at all costs.
Thank you Dr. Fung your vedios educates me on illnesses i have now...diabetes, highblood pressure and high cholesterol...its really worth subscribing you...God bless
As you man I wanted to be scientist and studied Chemistry. I heard about a low Sodium diet, knowing his was not correct I said, do they mean sodium chloride? Later here is what I found. In 1930 German Marxists opened a fake school with no students called the Frankfurt school in New York. They mostly rewrote history books, with the goal of causing ethnic violence. Though they also published papers, and would have the employees peer review each other's papers w They were promoting vegetarian diets, they thought meat had salt. so they wrote a paper saying Sodium was bad, not being educated enough to know that Sodium and Sodium Chloride are two different things. If you do not believe me, drink a cup of chlorine as it will make you smarter.
Thankyou Doctor , But most people may use only refined table salt . What kind do you recomend . Table salt dose not have potassium in it . I have to eat salt but found i have to have potasium and magnesium plus trace minerals . The indigenous people eat non refined salt .which usa eats refined salt .
One important point missed here is: everybody is different, and whether a body will react with hypertension to excess salt intake (with reduced ability to excrete it effectively, so urine to assess salt intake is as useful as socks in water) is determined mostly by genes. About half of the population, in general, will NOT react with hypertension to salt intake. Nobody seems to be interested in this little but very crucial detail.
Hi, I have been led to believe that salt causes water retention. Is this true? I am looking forward to hearing what you’ve discovered about eating too little salt. Thanks.
I knew an elderly couple and the husband was put on a low salt diet. The wife started having heart issues because she was naturally eating the same low salt diet he was and it was negatively affecting her. Too little salt can cause constipation, heart issues, muscles spasms, to name a few. Water retention is part of the inflammatory process. A diet of sugar and simple carbs combined with plenty of salt will encourage inflammation. All I have to do is drink a margarita and BAM! The culprit is the sugar/carbs, not the salt. Go on a ketogentic diet without salt and you will likely be sluggish, irritable and constipated. Lots of natural salt from places like the Himalayas, Celtic seas, and mined salt beds are the cheapest health food swap I know.
The hunther-gatherers of the Amazon probably also have genetic adaptations to low salt consumption. They have been living in that environment for millennia.
Sodium is essential for life, but if you routinely have swelling, esp. at the extremities (feet, hands) be sure to carefully follow Drs orders on salt intake. The most expensive hotel in town isn't actually a hotel---it's the ICU at your local hospital.
Yes it does! i straight up ate lemon salt straight for 1 month and later my BP was at almost 200/112 I stopped eating the lemon salt and now im at 130/90 still high but not as high as before.
High salt intake like in excess of 20-30g per day is hevily associated with stroke mortality you can see this from Japan pre 1990. Not specifically heart disease although, hypertensive heart disease is also a problem. Check out the video: Nathan Pritikin on High Blood Pressure.
20-30 grams would be very unpalatable. But I get your point. Hypertension puts strain on the heart even between strokes. That's why the diastolic level is also monitored not just the systolic pressure eg. 110/70 etc.
Salt lower bloodpressure... Because if have to little salt.... The kidneys needs to recylcle more salt To do that the body raise the blood pressure....
Published are available where they are published. Some studies, most tbh are unublished. It doesn't mean you cannot go direct to source and see the results.
Are these salt/bp studies measuring the effect on the general population or people with high blood pressure? I suspect the general population is able to filter out excess sodium as needed to maintain normal blood volume. If this were true, these people would only show a very small increase in blood pressure as their kidneys work to get rid of the excess sodium. Conversly, if you were able to take people with an inability to regulate sodium levels in their kidneys, I would expect a substantial improvement in blood pressure on a low sodium diet. Can you refer me to such a study?
Salt can also be very processed and unprocessed. Junk food and packaged food have a high amount of processed salt. Japanese salt consumption is usually coming from soy sauce but they traditionally brew it. Another place where their salt consumption increases are miso soups which studies show the salt is counteracted by miso cultures. American salt consumption is predominantly coming from highly processed salts. Also most highly processed salt in American food also comes with oily or oil fried items. This idea of attributing medical problems to one thing is so wrong from an epigenetic perspective. All studies are wrong from this perspective. The problem is usually caused by a multitude of factors and the solution is achieved by changing multiple things.
Being retired and reading all week long on optimum health for years, I have studied the recommendations of 40-50 docs. This MD is the one I have come to trust the most. His books literally saved my life.
I completely agree with you. I’m also retired and doing what has been suggested by Dr Fung. I now feel like a 24 year old. Fasting has changed my approach on life. I only wish I did this years ago. Wish you well.
9 months after I started a keto diet my blood pressure dropped from 140/90 down to 90/68 over a period of two weeks. It has since come back up a little to 110/70 and stayed there for the last 7 years. In my experience not eating large amounts of sugar and starch has an enormously larger effect on blood pressure than salt does.
Same for me. 2 years on keto, and my blood pressure is perfect. And, I eat much more salt now. Salt is good for body, it will get rid from excess of it easily. Low salt is dangerous.
@@mav5701 My doctor was on the verge of telling me to go on them, but I went on the diet, and it got rid of pre-diabetes within a month, and I figured the hbp would go too, and it did.
Same experience not only have i followed a very low carb diet for 3 years now but i increased my salt intake dramatically (i was before a low salt nerd) having learned that we lose a lot of salt in the urine when the insuline level is low. Insuline has a renal effect..
Thank you for exposing the bias in medical research. Just me, but I have been eating lots of salt and I have lower blood pressure than I have ever had. I cut out carbs and processed foods, and have been intermittent fasting. The results are amazing!
Just as the demonization of saturated fats has now stopped. the demonization of salt must stop too. Both saturated fats and salt are very valuable to good health.
Being retired and reading all week long on optimum health for years, I have studied the recommendations of 40-50 docs. This MD is the one I have come to trust the most. His books literally saved my life.
Luckily I don't have that problem, everything I mention to him I pickup here or berg my doc usually agrees or admits he doesn't know and on the spot opens his laptop and researches it and forms a opinion, I got lucky when I found him ✌
@@HeritageWealthPlanning he/she can’t. Just an embarrassing troll. I’ve been learning from fung, berg, ekberg. Lost 30 lbs in 4 months. No meds. Feel great. This troll would rather u be on meds for bp, high cholesterol, diabetes, etc. As long as u see a “real” dr, lol. The egomaniacal mind is a terrible thing, haha. Peace.
I have high BP due to chronic stress from a trauma. I take calcium blockers because I could not manage it through diet and exercise alone. I do notice however that when I eat high salt meal I can hear my heartbeat in my ears and my BP goes up. So what’s up with that? Maybe it’s not a one size fits all? I used to be able to fast 16 hours and since this trauma I can’t do that either as my blood sugar is also messed up. I have no clue how to get my body back to normal but hoping CBT will help.
Brilliant debunking of anti-salt propaganda. Too many - even peer reviewed - research studies exemplify GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out. Study bias is rampant.
Using Dr. Fung’s methods I’ve lost 95 lbs since January 2021. I can’t believe how much his lectures and videos helped change my life, it’s incredible. Thanks for posting these videos Dr. They keep me motivated to stay the course in changing my life and being a healthy person.
Rapid weight loss- more then 2lbs a week is very dangerous. You can lose your gallbladder. I did. You "might" be ok. The math shows that you "averaged" ~1.61 lbs. a week. Though in the beginning I bet you lost much more rapidly. That is where you run into a problem. Since it's been ~3 years, you might have gotten lucky. Never use mouthwash.
@@MOAB-UT If you have a lot to lose plus you're eating and supplementing correctly it's fine, especially if you excersize as well. Mouthwash is fine too.. depending the mouth wash.
@@OceanFrontVilla3 I disagree with everything you said. I did lose 50lbs. and a Gallbladder. Now I cannot gain weight- a little too skinny. All mouthwash inhibits NO production so very bad.
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It's dependent on the form of salt. I get horrible high blood pressure when I consume morton's or other processed salts. I'm fine w/ real sea salt & pink himalayan salt. It's always best to listen to your body rather than rely on studies.
@@gloriamaryhaywood2217 No, I don't take any medication for anything, & I'm 45 yrs old. I keep a food diary, & pay attention to how I feel after eating certain things (food is my medicine). Ten years ago I had a reading of 140/135. I felt awful. I discovered that eliminating mortons iodized table salt, & canned/processed foods high in sodium helped tremendously. I've also eliminated lots of other junk that was in my diet, & that helped too, but if I eat something w/ mortons salt on it or too much high sodium in processed food I'll get a headache & my blood pressure starts to creep up.
@@sugarpie5613 Good Night Nurse!!😲 That bottom number of 135 is stroke-out level!! Oh, I totally agree with you about consuming high sodium canned or processed foods! Then there's so much other garbage in those products as well such as the preservatives, flavorings, ect!#UGH Didn't know that eating Morton's table salt was that drastic in raising blood pressure!? #WOW. I bought some sea salt recently and will try to start using that instead!! And Thank You for answering back!☺
@@gloriamaryhaywood2217 Yes, the nurse who took my blood pressure said if it'd been just a couple points higher she would have admitted me to the ER. I do think there were other factors at play also contributing to my high blood pressure, because I hadn't yet embarked on cleaning up my diet, but the low quality salt only made things worse. Redmond Real Salt is a good brand. It is not fortified w/ iodine, but you can get your iodine from seafood, seaweed, or supplement. I personally like Mary Ruths nascent iodine drops.
After I stopped eating added salt, I lost weight, my inflammation went away as well as my joint stiffness, back pain, and puffy face. When I have some salt again, it all comes back. That’s the ONLY “study” I need.
This is why I always recommend to people, to do a thorough analysis of the science, and then do the opposite. Scientists are paid to reach the outcome desired by their employer, and that outcome is always bad for humanity. Look to what they are trying to inject with, for example.
Few years ago i stopped adding salt to my food because some guy said it was bad for health. First three days my muscles would and joints could barely move and I had pains trying to bend my arms. After a week my body adapted but now i started getting heart palpitations and chest pains, it took me several months to figure out it was the lack of salts that was causing this, when i finally started adding salt again my heart palpitations and chest pains went away.. Salt is essentiel for my wellbeing 🙏
No way am I going to believe that our ancient ancestors had ready access to salt unless they lived near the sea/ocean and had ready access to fish and seafood. There were pockets of people who had no access to salt and there is no mention in history of them dying earlier deaths than those who had ready access to salt.
I have a friend that is 70 years old and in amazing physical condition (he's a farmer who is continuously moving/working all day long). He began having serious health problems. His immediate family consists of all female Doctors, Nurses, and healthcare workers. For months he has been on a strict low/no salt diet enforced by his wife and daughters. He almost died and when a different doctor checked his blood, he was perfectly normal except he was seriously deficient in salt. A few meals with a normal amount of salt and he's back out in the fields, pounding fence posts into the ground by hand...
Saturated fat is not bad, meat is not bad salt is not bad. Refined carbohydrates, sugar, processed foods are bad. Seed oils and trans fats are bad. Olive oil, butter, and lard are not bad.
Thank you for this video. This gives me peace of mind. I am on high blood pressure medication. I have always monitored my salt intake. I have started intermittent fasting. During my research on intermittent fasting, I learned the importance of electrolytes. I can eat my pickles now without any guilt.
Check the active ingredient in your medication. If it contains potassium, the potassium is balancing the effect of excess sodium in the body. The gherkins are healthy and the vinegar also helps moderate endothelial function. Sure electrolytes are essential and you are getting all you need. Best wishes.
For almost 25 years I've had high Blood pressure, fatigue, anxiety etc usually BP is around 180 to 190 and no diet worked, however I recently discovered if a restrict my salt and fat to almost zero and eat mainly potatoes, rice, dried fruits and real fruits it would produce dramatic health improvements. I can report a miracle..my BP from the nurse registered at 130 , my energy is amazing and my waist was measured at 28 inches, my weight is 11 stones and 7 pounds , my body fat is 20 ...all this is astonishing and is on my medical records..I will continue to eat low salt and fat indefinitely.. I feel like a teenager....I believe genetics play a part too ...
I read a metastudy that came out recently, covering over 40 years and something like 600,000 individuals. The conclusion was that mortality from all causes was _higher_ on low salt diets than with moderate salt intake. (And all the biochemists are like... well, yeah.) Mortality was also higher on high-salt diets. But mortality was lowest when salt intake was between 2000mg and 3000mg per day... about what people normally consume when left to their own devices. The mortality curve was gradual for low-salt diets, and steep for high-salt diets. What's critical appears to be sodium-potassium balance. Take a once-daily OTC potassium supplement, consume normal salt, and your BP will typically drop by up to 40 points. This is probably why "salt substitutes" (typically potassium chloride) appear to have a positive effect of reducing BP, which is misinterpreted as "reducing salt intake lowers BP".
Well done! Notice the good doctor ignores potassium completely. A red flag for me. We have not evolved to need added sodium to the extent found in processed foods. But double blind studies show the cause and effect of sodium on blood pressure and for that matter potassium. Potassium is extremely high in black table pepper,. Put that back on your table. Best wishes.
Thanks a ton for this dr fung!! 🙌......read dr James dinicolantonio's reccomendations on salt intake, nd I had my doubts.....this clarifies everything!!......pink himalayan salt is what I hv 👌
2 things I'm having a tough time with. 1) getting my dad to believe salt isn't bad for you, if you just salt-to-taste. and 2) getting my mother to understand that saturated fats are not to be feared, but processed oils and fats (Crisco) are.
@@jodyjackson5475 lol. I bought some lard and fried some deer steaks and am making a pie using it for Christmas. My mother ate the deer steak so that's progress I guess.
@@cswann8 set yourself up a dedicated tallow pot. Tallow tastes even better, doesn’t flash as easily, and is generally less expensive than pre-rendered lard, if you render the tallow from suet, yourself. Just make sure your lid fits your dedicated pot perfectly for when you store it. It’s basically shelf stable indefinitely as long as you keep it covered when you aren’t cooking with it.
You will probably NEVER convince anybody of anything. My Mom is 92 and I wouldn't even try. She would physically GAG if she even tried to eat fat anyway. She is taking two BP meds and one super expensive drug for Afib. I have made my peace with it. I try to encourage her to at least eat more protein but invariably she just eats yogurt, toast and macaroni type foods. She is not much overweight though anymore because her appetite is slight these days.
Great information that we would NEVER get from our doctors! I DO believe that salt (in and of itself) is not harmful for blood pressure, but I wish you would speak on the other effect salt is blamed for, and that’s water retention (which results in noticeable swelling of extremities). I DO believe this happens for many people because I’ve seen it in myself (and others) for decades. I know there is an association….at least for me. So even though salt itself doesn’t cause a rise in blood pressure, does the resulting water retention and swelling of extremities cause an increase in blood pressure? I suspect it does, for me, so wouldn’t it still be correct to say that salt increases blood pressure INDIRECTLY through the water retention it causes in so many? Thank you for all your straight talk videos and telling us the truth about things. I would love to hear your thoughts on all things Covid related, and know millions of others would, too. We need to know what the truth is, and everyone trusts you and your opinions. I know you’re probably too smart to open such a can of worms! 😏😂 But we sure would be grateful if you would touch on some things that are true and false that we’re being told. Thanks for all you are doing for humanity! ❤️
I have read but check it please that salt intake may be monitored only for one out of three with high blood pressure; this one out of three has deficient kidneys: you could search for a good nephrologist to check your kidneys?
@@edwigcarol4888 I was going to suggest the same thing. I think folks with issues about bloating/water retention could have a problem with their kidney function? I went thru several weeks of aggressive chemotherapy and we were checked weekly thru blood tests for any kidney damage. And they always checked to make sure our hands and/or feet and ankles were not showing signs of swelling!!😉 Edited this to add that my first ever signs of HBP were when I had started on the Chemo.
Does the salt matter? I mean like white table salt vs. pink salt or Real salt brand from the Salt Lake. I have heard the white table salt is bleached and not all that great for us. I actually prefer the taste of the Pink Himalayan salt.
I think it may be msg or processed foods that raise bp… when I cook my food at home I season it’s very well I like Cajun food and my bp is normal… if I go out to eat my bp goes up so I agree it isn’t the salt it’s something else
A lot of the misinformation about MSG actually is born from racism known as "Chinese restaurant syndrome". The very first test on MSG ever done was also completely unscientific, then taken out of context to help the profits of salt industry since salt had finally found real competition for the first time in human history. "Soon enough, researchers conducted a study finding that when they injected extremely high doses of MSG directly into newborn mice's abdomens, the mice were likely to develop health issues including obesity, stunted physical development and disturbances in brain development. But despite the fact that humans aren't baby mice, nor do we consume large doses of MSG via belly injections, much the world took the results as proof that MSG is harmful. MSG was even added to the International Headache Society as a causative factor for headaches." Japan is one of the biggest consumers of MSG(mono sodium glutamate), yet they have some of the lowest occurrence of hypertension. Not to mention something like parmesan cheese has 6-7 times the amount of glutamate you can find in any Chinese dish at a MSG heavy restaurant, yet the same people who claim to have issues with MSG could be happily gorging on spaghetti. The foods with highest amount of glutamate naturally are dairy, red meats, and tomatoes, in other words, all the ingredients used in spaghetti. Thousands of tests have been done world wide and almost nobody has ever passed a double blind test to prove that there are any issues with MSG unless you're really taking in an abnormal amount OR have an allergic reaction, almost every case where someone had some adverse reaction was due to hypochondriasis(basically scaring oneself into getting sick). "Unlike regular table salt, which is 40% sodium, MSG contains only 12% sodium, which is one-third the amount in table salt." But we've just learned from this video that taking too little sodium also results in heart diseases. So that covers just about both the glutamate and sodium aspect of MSG.
Yes. He's too smart for most people to truly appreciate. Americans generally dislike intelligent people. If you don't believe me, look at all of our elected officials. Especially presidents
I consume quite a bit of salt but not the white powdery stuff in salt shakers. It's either sea salt or my preferance,Himalayan sea salt. My b/p is less than 120/80 and I'm a man in his mid fifties
Two years ago, my BP was 200+/120+. It was so bad that I felt dizzy. After listening to RU-vid videos such as this one, my BP is now about 110/70, and I am on no medication. So, due to my personal experience my high BP was due to high sugar/carb and processed food. Now, I am about 40 pounds lighter and I am able to run 10km at a pace of < 10 minutes/mile pace 2 yesterday. And I prepared for the run by taking 1 teaspoon of salt and as much coffee as I could stomach. BTW, I am sure your mileage and pace will vary.
@@HeritageWealthPlanning Yeah, when I started my journey this March, I was just hoping to do something about all those diabetic symptoms I was having. Here are a few of them: sores that will not heal, tingling sensation in my toes, and eczema. I was pleasantly surprised when my high blood pressure and my grass pollen allergy went away as well. Most reversals were observed within 3 months. After 9 months I am almost symptoms free. However, I am convinced that if I were to revert to eating badly again, I will be sick again in no time. Yep, there is really no going back to my old way of eating. Carb is an addiction, reverting is so easy. I credit Dr. Fung for most of my progress.
Congratulations! By reducing processed foods you are dramatically reducing your sodium intake. So now you can add salt for taste reasons. Love the joke about "your milage and pace will vary". The caffeine in the coffee is a performance enhancing drug banned in many sports.
There are a few doctors, researchers and others on RU-vid that I feel have personally given me a better quality of life, if not saved it. I have learned so much from watching and listening to those people. Dr. Fung is one of them. Thank you.
I know that there are biases in sceince and medicine, but I do definitely 100% notice a difference in blood pressure when I eat more sodium. I am talking 20 point difference top and bottom. Especially food with high sodium and a lot of preservatives. It may be unique to certain individuals and certain ethnicities, as far as I know they have not accounted for that. So for me more sodium definitely means higher blood pressure.
Foods with high sodium are, by rule, very processed. Whole foods with added salt to flavor them probably would not react the same way to your body chemistry?🤔
Yes, you have done your own tests. Excellent. 4/5 persons can not handle the excessive amount of sodium in our processed foods. No problems eating natural foods!
Thank you Dr. Fung. Adding to your comment about eating processed food & HTN, it’s also the consumption of ultra processed cheap salt lacking other important minerals. Can you please provide the references to the other graphs you depicted. Thank you.
Interestingly enough I've always thought it's weird that for my horses and very active dog (and my cats to some extent)- that adding salt to their diet is very important but in people you were supposed to remove salt- that always made little sense to me
@erin mccardell, great observations. And how salt was widely traded in the past because it was so important to peoples' health. We can learn a lot about what is important to our health by paying attention to what horses need. I think more research has gone into horse nutrition because of horse racing, and the amount of money people spend on racehorses. Lots of discussion about selenium levels, manganese, etc for horses, and you can barely find studies for human nutrition. Stay curious.
I agree! We ALWAYS HAD SALT BLOCKS available for the horses. They seem to naturals know how much they need. Same for elephants btw. I eat iodized salt as a seasoning. So not large amts. But my mom had us eat a pinch or so of salt in hot weather for headaches. And that helped. Probably from what we lost sweating.
No medical professional following the recommendations was ever saying to eat no salt... civilizations were built on top of salt deposits, etc. etc. The advice was just saying to avoid too much, because blood pressure. It's just that they seemingly missed the body's diuretic effect where if there's too much salt in that situation, you just pee it out and you're good again. I think the biggest thing is that it's so simple and intuitive, so no one really questioned it or researched it properly.
Salt (sodium actually) is very rare (in low amounts) in natural foods. Even so, in the wild, animals eat a wider variety of feed. They don't have doctors or nutritionists. Your dog's food is most likely high in sodium, check the label. Sodium is an essential element, we simply get too much from our processed foods, including our pets! Best wishes.
Japanese eat lots of salt...but also iodine Hmmmmm??? could that help...biology taught that potassium is critical in balancing salt.....sodium potasium Pump in each cell ☝🏿☝🏿
Thank you for talking about this Dr. Fung. I recently had hyponatremia- low salt levels. The doctors I’ve seen still tell me to lower my salt intake to lower my BP. Sometimes you have to ignore the advice.
The relationship between salt and blood pressure is a simple chemical equation. Where salt is there is also water -- in our body chemical make up. That's why when we eat salty foods we get thirsty. Here's the rub: the added water we drink goes into our blood -- increasing our blood volume. That means our heart has to pump more blood. Having to pump more blood over the years and decades makes the heart muscle thicker. Ironically, thick muscles in the heart is not a good thing. It makes the heart less efficient and eventually causes heart failure.
Very interesting!!! That's all I've ever heard my whole entire 66 years of my life is to reduce or stop using salt!!!!!!! Again, thank you Dr Fung for sharing your information on a highly argued subject!!!
Only because we have so much added to our modern processed food. Zero sodium is fatal. We can get enough from natural foods. Salt can then be added at the table, for taste only.
There’s no correlation between sodium intake and hypertension. It may raise blood pressure transiently, but as soon as a person pees out the additional water, their blood pressure will drop. Unless someone has Renal insufficiency OR Congestive Heart Failure, they don’t need to be concerned about their sodium (or salt) intake.
Unfortunately Americans too often think in extremes & dichotomies. Salt is important electrolyte. Quality of the salt and appropriate amount is what is the best. We each must look at the data and our own situation to determine the optimal amount. As with most things.
Another question to ask when looking at this research is about genetic differences between people that enable some to process salt differently than others. The people from the very isolated cultures, or even those in the Japanese studies when compared to me in the Midwest US, are genetically different, and slight variations can have a large impact on how the body responds.
I would like some reasonable truthful answer.i have a lower eGFR than 60.and a creatinine serum level of 1.71.And I have had a high blood pressure now on amdilopine.Now tell me what I should do about salt intake in a real life situation
When I went on a low carb diet I notice I frequently had to urinate but, I also needed salt because I had heart ❤️palpitations and I added Redmond sea salt. I felt better and once you stop eating unhealthy you will need extra salt.
In nature all foods are low in sodium, celery is an exception. Zero sodium intake is fatal. Yet, humans evolved well before the salt industry. Double blind controlled studies show the cause and effect of adding or removing excess sodium. I am more concerned about what other changes you have made to your diet that can cause heart palpitations. Get medical advice about your root cause. The sea salt makes sense as it is not only sodium chloride. You are getting some other electrolytes. Better isn' t best. Vegetables are low carbohydrate are you getting enough leafy greens?
Haven't finished watching yet (I will, as this is fascinating), I just wanted to say you should be eating some sort of "real" mineral salt... sea salt, kosher salt, rock salt, Pink Himalayan, etc (I've heard good reviews of Redman's Real Salt), rather than refined salt, and avoid the stuff with anti-caking agent mixed in... we don't need to be eating that :D
