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Hi!!!
A friend pointed out the other day that it's not normal or good for someone to eat teaspoons of salt. I do, at least three times a week. And on the other days I LAYER my food, especially the meat, with salt.
I've had my sodium and potassium (blood/serum) levels checked and they are either normal or low normal.
My Doctor is now checking the levels or sodium and chloride in my urine.(It's a 24 hour test).
Here's the question, all of my metobolic levels are normal, cholesterol level is great, heart is great, HDL/LDL is great, my iron level is low normal. I do have PCOS (Polycystic ovarian syndrome)... so what's the problem with eating the salt if I like/crave it?
(Please no Salty Dog jokes!!!!)
Lisa
In Reply to: Large Quantities of Salt... I love Salt posted by Lisa on March 08, 2000 at 18:38:54:
Lisa,
Your strong craving for salt is probably due to genetic programming (provided by your not so distant ancestors).
I would also guess that along with your low total cholesterol and good HDL/LDL ratio that you have a relatively low uric acid level.
All these provide a metabolic 'thumb print' that is indicative that you have inherited a Hunter-gatherer metabolism.
Your ancestors might have been from Northern Europe where animals served as the PRIMARY nutritional source. In order to survive these people became expert at using salting, smoking and other curing techniques to preserve meat.
Your desire for salt is actually an inherited metabolic need.
You might check the archive section of this site to get a deeper understanding of what your Hunter-gatherer metabolism
requires for good health.
Bob
In Reply to: Re: Large Quantities of Salt... I love Salt posted by Robert McFerran on March 08, 2000 at 21:26:58:
Dear Lisa,
Run, don't walk to someone who knows adrenal and thyroid homones. About half of the folks low on thyroid (or who have Hashimotos) get low or borderline low on sodium, and most crave salt. Also, getting low on thyroid is one of the favorite ways to get low on serum cortisone and you will like salt. I have a patient who used to eat it out of her hand like candy, and her daughter did the same thing. They were both low on thyroid and low on cortisol.
Some other things which would help the history be more convincing include: PFH (periods from hell-painful, clotty, crampy, heavy), a history of infertility or miscarriages, feeling cold, losing hair, dry skin, headaches.
Doc Don
In Reply to: Re: Large Quantities of Salt... I love Salt posted by Doc Don on March 09, 2000 at 00:23:57:
Are u a licensed doc, don??
In Reply to: Re: Large Quantities of Salt... I love Salt posted by Doc Don on March 09, 2000 at 00:23:57:
Doc Don,
As amazing as it might seem all the conditions that you mentioned are a result of eating a diet mismatched to inherited metabolism. Once they make the requisite change their symptoms will resolve and their blood work will normalize.
By this time they probably have leaky gut syndrome with the associated food sensitivities and/or intestinal dysbiosis.
Twenty years ago docs thought that there was no relationship between diet and cardiovascular disease. I mean HOW could there be a connection when two men eat pretty much the same thing and one man dies of a massive coronary at 48 and the other guy lives to 98?
Dietary diversity is just a bit less obvious than racial diversity -- yet for some reason allopathic (and a lot of alternative medicine docs) still don't see it.
Bob
In Reply to: Large Quantities of Salt... I love Salt posted by Lisa on March 08, 2000 at 18:38:54:
Hi, Lisa.
First, you need to understand why animals have a taste for "salt". It is not that they need sodium chloride but that sodium chloride happens to be present where all the other trace minerals hang out (at the salt lick). Since there are about 70 of them ( and they mostly are present only intracellularly) those docs so far behind that they test for serum levels are not only missing the boat BUT would have to test for at least 70 minerals (intracellularly) to find which ones you were deficient in.
What determines the grazing range of deer? They start at the salt lick where the concentration of trace minerals (and the taste of salt) are the highest. When all of their needs for trace minerals are satisfied, they begin to range further and further from the salt lick. FINALLY they get so far from the lick that the trace minerals are SO low in the soil that they begin to become deficient themselves. This is when their natural "craving" for the salt taste begins to drive them to where the other minerals are. SO, they turn around and start grazing back toward the salt lick.
This is repeated over and over for their entire life. The same thing is true of sweet taste. When we are deficient in those nutrients that happen to be present where sweet is, we tend to want sweet things more.
Our bodies do this automatically UNLESS the foods are refined. THEN the nutrients have been separated from the taste that should tell our bodies when we are in the right place to get them. You have heard that if one put a baby on a smorgasboard that they would find and eat the things they needed----UNLESS the foods have been refined!
Until you have discovered the trace minerals you need, and replaced them, you will continue to crave the salt taste. Why do you think pregnant mothers have such "weird" tastes?
All refined salt is, by law, only sodium chloride with all the trace minerals removed. Whose bright idea was that? The World Health Organization.
The soluytion to this is for you to only use mineral salt, mined from salt beds thousands of feet under ground. It is slightly tannish and you have to tap the shaker to get it to sprinkle. It seems to me a very small inconvenience to do that to get the trace minerals you need. SeaSalt will not resolve this problem. Even now, it will take you a couple of years to get enough of them back that you can start grazing further from the salt lick.
Hope this helps.
Walt
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