What Happens When You Quit Salt?

Consume salt. Forget about sugar.

Actually, for hundreds of years people consumed 50-100 grams of salt a day, because of using it for conservation of food. They did not have more heart disease

There was nothing about your education background in the video. Are you a scientist or hold a degree in Science or a medical student? That is some strong stuff about the destructive changes in the body that come from giving up salt completely? Did you test it out on yourself or did you have a friend do it, so you could document it? If not, then was it a study? Maybe, it would be good to cite your research. If you went to college, they must have taught you how to quote sources.

Salt is not food. It is toxic. And we use it as a drug to stimulate

I’d rather die than reduce my salt intake

Optimal salt is between 3000mg and 5000mg of sodium and potassium and 400mg of magnesium

I have a connective tissue disorder called hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and extra salt is actually required,along with fluids and supplements.
My mother had her first heart attack just days after a colonoscopy. We didn't know about hEDS and the need for sodium, and the "prep" (AKA poop soup goop) caused her great harm.
I think cardiologists should be better informed.

Salt isn’t bad for you

Replacing Some Salt with potacium salt makes for a faulty study.
Its now 2 variables instead of one, rendering the findings less clear.

A pet peeve: there is no such thing as "the average American" - there is an annual average salt intake of people in the US. The former phrasing encourages thinking in absolutes and archetypes when the reality of salt intake, and many other things, is that there is a distribution.

What about Cl? For stomach acid?

Don't listen to this guy. Sodium is very important electorlyte and balance is the key.
He is making sodium like a evil villain that makes us to die. Which is not. Even water in excess can kill you.

Somethings dose taste tastier with salt than without which could make someone really thirsty

Quit salt but don´t quit iodine. People eat too little fish, especially when you´re not in US where there is sufficient iodine in the soil. Since I supplement iodine I don´t like salt as much anymore! What I really recommend to everybody is to get a blood test done. This will show you exactly if there is a problem with salt or not or any other problem.

Correlation does not imply causation...

Sure….its the salt
Not the processed food, vegetable oils , sugar, lack of movement


Ofcourse mist be the salt

Keep earing mcdonalds

This is bad science. Salt is NOT responsible for high blood pressure.

I’m tracking calories and am keeping my sodium intake to 2000mg daily. I feel SO much better now that I’m not eating processed foods

I don't like salty food and I barely use it, I think Unami is much better for taste except for oatmeal, my question is why do I like bitter stuff?

Look for dr Fung

I do not eat salt much but I do eat too much sugar.

You know people normally have 2 kidney(s)

My biggest surprise when I completely cut salt and sugar for an entire week was the weight loss, since the reward system salt activates basically is shut down, I ate far less and there was no pleasure in eating, at least not in the traditional sense. The whole "function in the body" salt seems to have appears to be exaggerated, in my opinion.

Real enemy is sugar, not a salt.

Hyponatremia is typically only seen in people with eating disorders, especially those that take dieuretics.

I love when videos like this sort of forget people live before 1900 and that humans use extreme amount of salt before refrigeration without causing any of the disease. You cant survive without salt on plant based diet and meat have been vilified without reason.

Salt has been demonized and in my opinion, for no good reason. A gross, completely unreasonable daily overconsumption of salt is dangerous, but so is everything else in these quantities.
Salt is absolutely fantastic for you, and especially more so if you do any sort of physical activity regularly.
Jist like everything else in this world, the poison is in the dose, and the body is pretty good at regulating sodium.

Salt is necessary, especially if you sweat a lot

yall acting like salt is a drug

I have varicose veins wrapping around my upper Gi and various other organs. I hemorrhage heavily last year needing two blood transfusions to stabilize. I definitely didnt help myself through certain lifestyle choices, but now I make everything from scratch. Sodium wants to kill me and I found out the hard way when I bled rectally with fresh blood for a whole day. I did a few experiments myself and I dont know my threshold for sodium intake, so I keep it low. Having a near daily intake a few times a week for 3-4 weeks will also make me bleed. So accumulated consumption of sodium also has dilitarius effects for me. My life has changed drastically and ngl I miss doing certain things, but I enjoy a lot in my life regardless, so not yet mentally debilitating brain.

Biggest issue I have with your science is from using anything China says cause they dont do studies on improving the lives of their people they could give a shit about their slaves. China lies about everything their leaders suck.

I cut out adding my own salt, as well as all fast food. It was like 3 months in when I started to have real consequences. I drank so much water and worked out frequently, never replenishing. I was spacey and felt faint upon standing. My lips and fingers would turn blue. My doctor told me I’ve always had hypotension and should be ADDING salt if anything. I’d always eaten nearly 8oz of queso or a Big Mac every day so it was never a problem. Now I don’t eat meat, I put as much seasoning salt as I want on whatever I cook. Still don’t eat fast food. Creepy to see what was happening inside me when I was without sodium

Why always everithing for woman worse 😒

"What Happens When You Quit Salt?" You risk your life, easy. It's a higher risk then to much

Sodium its good but not much

summary: you will die if you do not consume salt

You start sweating more.

I got too much blood? Lemme drain some of that real quick

If you do an hour of high intensity cardio you need that much salt because you sweat up to 1800mg an hour.... So you don't need to change your diet, u just need to workout more.... I didn't know people only had 3400mg of sodium a day, it's dramatically lowered since early 2000's. It was like closer to 5-6grams... I actually tried reducing salt intake even though I exercise a lot and I was always feeling dehydrated and weak, I doubt I was so deprived in salt that I had the hypo he's talking about but It was a bit of an issue... Now I sprinkle salt in my water with my Gatorade everytime before cardio

If u stop eating salt ur stomach acid will be non existent

Salt is my favorite rock to eat.

I just use a tad of salt when cooking and I don't eat processed food. I might get it from my kefir or cheese but i make sure I'm hardly adding salt. And honestly everything tastes super salty after a while.

After quitting salt. Food doesn't taste the same.

Goats learned to climb mountains to lick salt in the rocks

Quitting salt is almost impossible. Grocery store meat is filled with salt cause that makes the meat store longer as a matter of fact 100 years ago without fridges we had to use salt to preserve food for longer as well. Quitting salt entirely is impossible anyways and if you somehow figure out a way to then you’re dying cause you’re body needs salt. We just eat way too much just like sugar

I'm lost because here the recommended amount of salt is 5 g and say under 2,4 grams its bad

but my yummy nom noms

Mannn i never added salt to my food. Ever. Rarely ate salty food. Dr told me lol u have POTS you need to get up to like 2 grams of salt a day and see how u feel. Finally have normal blood pressure but it messes with my stomach so its been harder to eat. Amazing having warm hands n feet regularly tho

When people talk about "no salt", they mean table salt. Your body needs sodium and chloride, and BOTH can be found in leafy greens.
So, when you quit salt, you have to eat loads of greens. You might think a salad a day does it, but "loads" means LOADS. :)

Those who can get through that transition (salt has an addiction factor, too), get fantastic health benefits.