Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published October 31, 2018. Your body requires a specific sodium-to-potassium ratio to normalize your blood pressure that does not rely on your total sodium intake. In other words, your body uses the sodium you eat to help maintain the balance, and excretes the sodium you… Read More »
Sodium Chloride (NaCl), also known as table salt or rock salt, is the most common compound used for deicing roads and highways in the U.S.1 While it’s extremely effective at melting snow and ice, the 20 million tons of salt used for highway deicing annually2 in the U.S. doesn’t stay put on the roads. Road… Read More »
This article was previously published March 15, 2017, and has been updated with new information. The theory that salt is bad for you and contributes to high blood pressure and heart disease is an idea that has become more or less cemented as dogma. Alas, the war on salt has had a number of drawbacks… Read More »
Research has found that besides being bad for blood pressure, a high salt diet is also bad for the immune system. Mice suffered from more bacterial infections of greater severity after being given a high-salt diet. Human volunteers consuming an extra 6 grams of salt a day experienced pronounced immune deficiencies. This amount is equivalent… Read More »
This includes patients with heart failure, high blood pressure hypertension, and pulmonary hypertension. Sodium acts like a sponge in your body, making it hold onto water. Moving this extra water through your body requires your heart to work harder, which raises blood pressure. For patients with heart failure or pulmonary hypertension, whose heart or blood… Read More »
One large egg is a good choice because it only has 71 milligrams of sodium and less than 1 gram of net carbs. Although more research is needed, individualized sodium recommendations may be most appropriate for managing CHF. Here are the 9 biggest myths and misconceptions. The Lancet Moderate salt restriction with or without paricalcitol… Read More »