The Romans paid their soldiers an allowance of salt called a salarium - hence our word salary, and the phrases ‘worth one’s salt’. Our value of salt has plummeted. Why is salt so valuable?
Without enough SALT (sodium and chloride) muscles won’t contract, blood won’t circulate, food won’t digest, and the heart won’t beat.
Without sodium: nerves don’t function. By the way, that makes it harder for me as a chiropractor to help you.
Without chloride: your digestion will not work right.
James Laragh MD. who published an article on salt and blood pressure in the American Journal of Hypertension, had this to say “…normal blood pressures rarely change when we change our salt intake…”
This is a very complicated system so I am going to try and simplify what the good doctor above had to say in the rest of the article. Salt keeps fluid in your vessels, if you don’t eat enough salt your kidneys kick out an enzyme that constricts your vessels to maintain the pressure levels. If you eat salt, your kidneys don’t make the enzymes. Salt actually eases the burdens on your body, and eases the burden on your heart, because your vessels won’t be so constricted. And it is seen in research, the people with high blood pressure differ from healthy people. How they differ gets even more complicated, so here is all you need to do first. The kidney enzyme is called “renin”. The next time you have lab work done have your renin tested. A low salt diet will only help about 20% of people.
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