I love salt. Am I setting myself up for a heart attack?!


Question: I love salt. Am I setting myself up for a heart attack?
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Well, if you crave salt that much, it could be due to a potassium imbalance or other medical issues. Have you run this past your doctor? Drinking lots of water can actually cause salt cravings, too, as your kidneys work to prevent hyponatremia.

Salt is excreted pretty efficiently by your kidneys, so if they are working properly, you'll be all right. Still, ask your doctor, who can evaluate you for underlying medical issues and give you individual guidelines.If your doctor says that you're normal and healthy and your blood pressure is OK, then you're probably OK.



Salt has been given a bad reputation by doctors who seem to enjoy looking through the wrong end of their microscope. Salt does not cause high blood pressure.

Salt is an essential nutrient that is transported by water. The tissues are made up of 75% water and salt, the brain is 85% water and salt and the blood is 94% water and salt. Salt removes toxins from the cells. It prevents muscle cramps.Follow this link to learn all kinds of functions of salt in the body that get impaired when you follow the doctors' advice to "cut back on salt" - http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/art…

High blood pressure (and high cholesterol - which blocks the arteries and causes a heart attack) is caused by a lack of an adequate water intake.

Contrary to the old adage "you can't get enough of a good thing", you actually can get too much salt. But then again, you can get too much of any vitamin or mineral. Unless you intentionally eat large amounts of salt, the chances of getting too much are the same, since the kidneys are quite adequate in flushing out the excess.

There are signs that you have too much salt- such as puffy eyes and edema. Puffy eyes is just a simple case of eating too much salt. Edema is a condition when the body stores salt due to dehydration. Water is stored in the tissues outside the cells and is injected into the cells.. When the body senses a drought condition, it retains salt, which in turn, retains water.

In both cases, reversing the condition is done by increasing the water while decreasing the salt for a few days so that the kidneys can flush out the excess.



In my apenyon yes cuase salt has sodium in it n if iam mistaking yur body sodium



High blood pressure would be the first thing that would happen, not a heart attack.

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Yes, among many other various health issues.




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