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As with almost everything else moderation is key. Some salt is good, too much is bad. The question is where you are on that scale.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
As with almost everything else moderation is key. Some salt is good, too much is bad. The question is where you are on that scale.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y ago> too much is bad In what way? Your kidneys dump any excess salt your body doesn't need. The long standing 20th century salt alarmism has no basis in reality.
- anoncoward111 8y agoUnless you are like me and have mild kidney failure and your kidneys cant really dump much of anything easily! All parameters should be based on personal experimentation
- marcosdumay 8y agoAs far as I remember, sodium is dumped passively. The one thing kidneys need an effort to make is to keep it at the blood, not to dump it away.
- anoncoward111 8y agoKidney failure = your kidneys are now a clogged shower drain that also lets protein and blood go into places it shouldnt
- 6d6b73 8y agoLess work for kidneys? Any side effects before excess salt is dumped? Like with anything too much of a good thing could be bad.
- latexr 8y ago> > too much is bad > In what way? “Of course too much is bad for you. Too much of anything is bad for you. (…) That’s what “too much” means. (…) “Too much” is precisely that quantity which is excessive. That’s what it means.” From https://youtu.be/XewVicFzRxw?t=2m44s https://youtu.be/XewVicFzRxw?t=2m44s
- astura 8y agoIf we are playing semantics, too little salt will kill you, sodium is vital for life. Some studies have found that the people who have the lowest salt consumption have increased risk of death, so combined with sodium being essential for life, and no increase in the salt consumption over the last half century, I'm not confident that we should, as a population, be artificially moderating our salt intake, the evidence is just not there.
- Retric 8y agoExcess salt can kill you, that’s why we can’t live on sea water. The question is how much is excessive, not can salt hurt you.
- anfilt 8y agoIf you were to eat lets say a pound of salt (probably lethal). You probably would have to be rushed to the ER. Your body can only process things so fast and deal with changes so quickly. Obviously, a person would not eat a pound of salt in one sitting. So you body can not dump any excess salt. It can dump excess to a point.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoYou argument is pointless. Nobody would voluntarily consume that much salt. The same as nobody will drink sea water unless desperate. Once past the point of satiation you would have no desire for more. Hypernatremia will still be a long way off in normal healthy people.
- tomhoward 8y agoYour claim was that, for practical purposes, it's not possible to have too much salt, as your kidneys will process any excess. The respondent's point was that there is a threshold at which the amount of salt ingested is too much for what the body can handle. Obviously a pound is an unrealistic extreme, but it illustrates the point: there is a threshold. More realistically, it would not be unusual for somebody to have a daily salt intake that is a little over the threshold of what the kidneys can easily handle, and bit by bit, harm can develop, just as is the case with too much sugar, too much fat, too much alcohol, or too much of anything in any organic system.
- jplayer01 8y agoThe kidneys (in a healthy state) are able to cope with far more salt than anybody in modern civilization eats or will ever eat in a day. It's not worth talking about the limit (it's in the tens of grams, far above the <10g that majority of people consume).
- agumonkey 8y agoYeah, moderation, diversity too, read that processed foods having a narrow spectrum of molecules may lead to poor gut flora (or excessive selection of some families) Seems to me that geometrical optimization based medicine is poor, we were born in and out of complexity, we feed on it.
- vecinu 8y agoI think the real question is what is too much? Everyone has different needs / capacities.
- maxxxxx 8y agoCorrect. There is no simple answer.