What Happens When You Quit Salt? 

At least he didn't tell her to buy a salt lick (a huge chunk of solid salt for cattle to use freely) and use it daily. :D I personally am salt-sensitive, but unless I'm eating premade food items I keep forgetting to salt enough when I cook from scratch as I usually do, so I have to make sure I consume enough. Especially on hot summer days. I try to keep pickled stuff around because those are usually really salty and easy to add to the side of any meal.

Whole food plants (especially greens or celery) have lots of natural salt that the body needs. But yeah if eat no veggies on a low salt diet you can come into some problems.

@@Zenjohnny You cannot get enough sodium from land greens alone, especially not in the summers. One medium stalk of celery has about 30 milligrams of sodium, and people need ~2.3g of pure sodium per average day. People on low sodium diets are not prohibited from eating celery. Did you think it was exaggeration how much humans prized salt throughout all of our history until recently? Even land mammals prize salt, especially the further inland you are.

That happened to me as well! I felt so horrible and I didnt know why, it took me weeks to figure it out. Salt isnt evil, its necessary! You just gotta find the right balance.

I used to eat a lot of eggs (cheap and easy dinner) and had to use up a bunch of butter I'd bought to bake with, but never did. So I was using unsalted butter for my dinners. After I made that shift, I started having more headaches and my vision would go dark when I stood up (which is usually associated with anemia, but my iron levels are fine). So, I think that when I reduce salt intake, my blood pressure drops and it becomes unhealthy.

Exactly. Things will taste “bland.” Low to no salt is good.

​@@MrJwyneno. The right amount of sodium, potassium, and calcium FOR THE AMOUNT OF WATER YOU DRINK is healthy.

@@MrJwyne. “No salt” is dangerous.

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I know plenty of people who add salt to their food before even tasting it. 🫨

Yes for sure. Dedicate cheat days for such meals. In that way you can enjoy them in a regulated manner

You could just exercise an hour and get sweaty. Your sweat salt concentration reflects internal, and you can sweat faaaaar more and require to consume more than the double daily value to simply be healthy.

Also just drink a lot of water

I have the opposite problem. I struggle with sugar and sweets. Being anorexic isn't fun either

I’m the opposite. I turned away salt easily due to kidney stones. But ice cream is my struggle.

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@@Lswat717ok boomer

My drills didn't do this, but made us drink a quart of water an hour. I still do that to this day, but it's more like half a liter an hour.

Smart man, can't get enough salt. People think it's sodium that kills. It's the processed food that most people eat.

They only made us salt our food at the defac, but my platoon sergeant always had sunflower seeds. Man would just spit them out and leave trails of husks everywhere we went 😂

While your first point might be correct, are you suggesting villagers in rural china have a junk food problem?

​@@kevinbarnard355 "Another potential issue with some studies..." Tell me how your overly specific inference follows. It is not like I said that every study has this issue specifically.

On what basis are you saying that adding potassium is better than lowering salt? A systematic analysis published in the Lancet 2019 puts diets high in sodium as the no. 1 deadliest risk factor above low intake of fruits and vegetables: GBD 2017 Diet Collaborators. Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet. 2019 May 11;393(10184):1958-1972.

Salt is everyone's friend. Its just that people abuse the sodium, and don't take in enough potassium which need to be in balance within the body

What food can be spiced properly without salt. I don’t understand this

@@2010Failbrids Exactly!

@@ordinarychef The issue isn't the amount of sodium. It's the imbalance of sodium to potassium. Increase the potassium, and issues caused by "high sodium" go away. Also, carb consumption causes retention of water and electrolytes. Balance is the key.

@@ordinarychef Actually, it's as simple as using Potassium Chloride salt and sprinkling it onto your food. I don't eat fruit or vegetables at all and was able to fix my hypertension issues with removing carbs entirely and using potassium. Plants always throw electrolyte balance off because the fiber absorbs salt and is an antinutrient.

Yeah, my dad started using potssium salt. It tastes a little weird.

we need both sodium and potassium

@@MsSarcasticity Duh 🙄

Everything tastes salty when it comes to premade food.

@@PhantomQueenOne duh

Exactly, I was perplexed by the numbers here. 3400mg is only ~1/2 Tsp which is way too low for the average consumer.

You are absolutely right, this guy didn't do the math properly. For athletes the salt, not only sodium, needs to be taken at a higher amount.

This is entirely wrong. The human body is actually perfectly capable of sustaining a proper electrolyte balance on only 50-100mg of sodium per day. This is if you eat a healthy diet that includes potassium and don’t over consume water. How do you think humans survived before salt was easily accessible! They only had access to the small amounts you get from meat, fruits and vegetables. Which was only around 50-100mg per day at most.

Illusion truth effect Listen if you look at the fuchking map, it looks like life started where there is a source of water, in Bangladesh life started near the sea then, slowly moved towards the land where the grounds are much harder that the sea area as a result we could have gotten the salt from the sea area, but as people moved towards the hard ground area that is in the north of the Bangladesh map, people started to have goiter and hyper or hypo-thyroidism. So people in the salt industry started to use iodine in the salt, that same salt most Bangladeshi used to get from the sea, and as people started to move away from the sea area the more goiter started to appear, also I diagnosed many of the problems my mom had and and some of those problem started from low salt consumption cause the doctor suggested it, the doctor was a diabetic related doctor who also had no idea about nutrition of how much salt to eat per day leading to hyperthyroidism which came down after I read a book related to salt only causing her hyperthyroidism to go down, so I am saying that before you open your mouth, put some mouthwash then spit is out, to see you are actually dumb or not.

even that is extremely low. and i dont think thats the limit but the bare minimum someone should eat to not die

Canned soup has a crazy amount of salt in it! I usually try to grab the low sodium version if I can because the amount in regular soup is ridiculous, and the taste isn’t really all that different.

consume more potassium. The issue isnt too much sodium, its not enough potassium

I've had to give up canned soup, Hormel tamales, and many frozen foods over the 60%+ daily sodium intake per meal.

@@MsSarcasticity this is the correct answer. we need 3 to 8 grams of salt a day depending on how active we are. if you eat 1g of salt, you're blood pressure will spike. if you eat 1g of salt, and 2g potassium, your blood pressure will stay normal.

@@shadowthetwisted I'm quite well-versed in this. I used to be almost 400lbs and hypertensive. Now that I eat a very low carb and ketogenic diet, my body is a lot more sensitive to electrolytes and I can easily get thrown out of balance if I'm sick or am sweating excessively. I can tell if it's my sodium, potassium, or magnesium that is low as each will cause different symptoms in my body. I literally drink salt water every day (potassium and sodium in the correct ratios) as well as liberally salt my food. My blood pressure is always normal when I drink the salt water. If I feel bad because my electrolytes are low, I always measure as prehypertensive. It's that noticable

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They're probably getting enough potassium and other minerals. The problem with high sodium is when you're only getting too much sodium

I exercise quite a lot and I did notice being dehydrated without being thirsty and drinking water not actually helping. I started to eat salt when I felt this way, this actually solved the problem.

@@jenidu9642 had this exact same thing happen like a year ago, it was crazy to experience thirst with water not helping at all salt fixed it in like a day for me too

Pickle juice. Trust me.

@@You_work_tomorrow yeah I've been eating pickles lately because I don't have access to pickle juice rn. Buying liquid IV or something later today because my sodium intake is ungodly rn

Pedialyte may be better? Or lightly salted water and bananas?

Must've been bad doctors

There are kidney diseases called salt losing nephropathies such as diabetic nephropathy,falcon disease etc.Those people usually cant take back the sodium filtered from the kidney causing them to lose sodium with urine. But you shouldnt tell anyone with hyponatremia to cut salt it would be stupid so what kind of rookie doctor that is,even 3rd year medical students know that electrolytes are not a thing to be messed with

@@exosproudmamabear558 I'm not even a doctor and even I know electrolytes aren't to be messed with

@@metal_pipe9764 but chimps or apes dont die they dont add salt to their food n they live healty so is something suspicious

I know this feeling. My PCP and cardiologist want me to add at least 4 grams of sodium to my diet daily. I'm living off of pickles and V8!

Power aid’s water is rlly rlly good for this. I have rlly active pots (I call it super active cuz just moving positions drastically affects my blood pressure and heart) and this stuff makes me feel half normal for a little bit. I highly recommend!!

@@lordparoose48 I use Liquid IV, it's kept me out of the hospital for dehydration. Sorry about your pots! I have something related, my heart stops instead of beating faster

@@kokitsunetora I’ve heard of that stuff! I should give it a try. Power aid seems to just be everywhere and not a lot of people realise how good it is for this sort of thing!! omg, you’re like a fainting goat!!

@@lordparoose48 lol, yeah, fainting goat describes me 😂. I've been fainting less since I got my pacemaker

My Aunt showed me some tricks to avoid large amounts of salt in foods. We're Italian, so I learned that tomato sauce needs to cook for a good long time. Usually it needs to cook for at least 4 hours very low. But if you put salt in too early, the tang of the salt will fade as it cooks. SO, to remedy this, you add the salt later, when the sauce has been cooking for a long while. This rule applies well to most soups that contain vegetables. Add the salt when there is about an hour left for cooking, rather than at the beginning.

I mean, cut out fast food? It's cheaper to cook at home anyway

@@yelpsman exactly. That was my point. Thank you :). Since i stopped or lets be honest, eating less outside, my health improved significantly, salt and salt intake reduction is not only one benefit i recieved.

Yep! A Gatorade or Pedialyte will help with that. I learned that the hard way when I passed out after drinking a gallon in a day when I had the flu.

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Thanks ! I was so confused

exactly. the problems happen because of LOW salts not high, or an imbalance of salts

I have chronically low blood pressure and my doctors wanted to figure out why, so they put me on a high sodium diet for a little bit. I literally just bought one of the Jolly Apple salt licks I give my horses. They're sweet and salty, and are flavored like green apple (my favorite), peppermint, or carrot. I'd chip bits off and suck on them like hard candy. It was like the ultimate sweet and salty snack for a weird kid like me. Never figured out why I have low blood pressure, though.

The common issue in the US is most certainly eating out or eating microwavable, prepackaged food. If people cooked at home, it is extremely difficult to have too much sodium.

Drop the carbs, increase potassium intake. Its not sodium thats the issue, its the imbalance between potassium and sodium in your body. carbs cause you to retain water that disrupts electrolyte balance

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I am curious of this. Every time I visit doctors they get scared bcz I usually have low blood pressure. They ask me if I’m feeling well/unwell. Some people have told me that when our heart is good it doesn’t need to pump as hard?

I tried no salt substitutes. They ALL had a "tin" aftertaste. 😞

I think it's bang on man. I consume loads of salt and I have tracked my blood work, no increase or decrease. I exercise a lot and very rarely eat processed junk foods

I've heard this as well, about indigenous people. Dr. Henry Bieler talks about it in his book "Food Is Your Best Medicine'. I've been following his advice to be salt-free for relief of mental health symptoms and to cleanse from the salt toxemia that caused anxiety and depression for years. When I 'cheat' and have salt, even just one meal, I always suffer for it with insomnia and anxiety. Salt is a powerful stimulant just like caffeine. Some are more sensitive than others.

Complete bs. You need salt to live. Not to mention the rainforest is full of sources of salt

we also need potassium which is not in processed food

Seasalt doesn't have iodine, so you need iodine from other sources if you're not using table salt.

Seaweed is good for iodine