Katherine Jacques

“Adding 2,300 milligrams of sodium (1 teaspoon of salt) per liter of water has been found to reduce total fluid loss during exercise.”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“glucose challenge test” along with an insulin assay. In this test, your insulin and blood sugar levels are measured two hours after consuming a drink that contains 75 grams of glucose. The test helps to determine if you have a large blood sugar and insulin spike after a meal, often a better gauge of internal starvation. If you have a high fasting insulin or high postprandial (after a meal) insulin level, you probably have some degree of internal starvation, and those high insulin levels will cause you to store an abnormal amount of fat for each calorie consumed. Reevaluate”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“The heart receives blood supply during relaxation, whereas every other organ gets blood when the heart is contracting. So the quicker one’s heart pumps means the less time the heart is relaxed to receive blood and, hence, oxygen. This is one reason why low-salt diets122 have been implicated in increasing the risk of heart attacks: by reducing blood flow to the heart. The increase in norepinephrine on low-salt diets may even produce cardiac hypertrophy, overgrowth of the heart, which can lead to heart failure.123”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“Inhabitants of Kotyang, Nepal Sodium intake: ~ 4,600 mg sodium/day Blood pressure: No cases of hypertension in the men. Blood pressure did not increase with age. In the women, hypertension was extremely rare (1.4 percent). The authors concluded, “In the present study, no significant increase in systolic blood pressure with age was found in men living in Kotyang, and no hypertensive men and very few hypertensive women were detected in Kotyang”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life