Why is too much salt bad for you?

[UnrealDreams]

Thank you for all of your comments. It's good to get as much solid information out there as possible. Unfortunately for us, we need to find the truth on our own. This thread is probably going to be more helpful to someone who has non stop medical issues, and they don't know why. If you are healthy, this is probably not going to be a concern. If you are on several medications a day, and your Dr. has no clue about the critical potassium sodium balance at a cellular level, this information could be critical. Removing excess salt from the diet, and detoxifying from all of the further toxic medications would be essential.

Thanks to all who exposed the truth about table salt here. While sea salt is certainly better than table salt, lets not confuse these two issues. Table salt can harm the arteries, and cells. Too much sodium of any variety in the body will cause the "flip" of the cell from potassium based to sodium based, which will certainly cause disease to set in.

Any salt, no matter what variety it is, is a toxin to the human body. This is a fact. It's up to you what you want to do with this info. Another fact is that your body does need sodium. The body gets plenty of sodium in natural foods such as fruits and veggies, and requires zero supplemetal salt. Personally, I use very little supplemental salt in my diet, and I take potassium supplements to maintain this critical potassium sodium balance.

Wishing you all a happy, healthy day-

[UnrealDreams]

Posted by dAkapacity (here)

There's a difference between sea salts and table salt. Salt and other natural minerals are actually very important for the body.

You are correct, the body does need sodium. What I'm trying to point out here is that most people don't understand that you get enough sodium in your diet without any supplemental salt. Even a strict plant based vegetarian diet provides perfect amounts of sodium. The average western diet provides too much salt, and adding salt on top of it will certainly cause cellular distruption as has been documented here.

Thanks-

[Wantsthetruth74]

I use Redmonds real salt. love it!!

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9pa2shuuM

[UnrealDreams]

Here is an interseting article on the toxicity of salt, for those interested: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/357085

It's an interesting read. Basically, the author indicates that studies show that excess salt is implicated in strokes as well as hypertension and gastric cancer. And he admits that higher potassium intake seems to mitigate the damage of excess toxic salt intake through "some unknown mechanism", even calling potassium "protective" in reference to excess dietary salty intake.

That "unknown mechanism" will never be taught to medical establishment doctors, but that information is located in the OP of this thread.

[The Truth Is In There]

Posted by Watching from Cyprus (here)
Just a comment on sodium increases the acid in the stomach !!! Sodium Bicarbonate which is also a salt, reduces the acid in the stomach and KILLS CANCER. Stop listening to the idiot medical doctors taught only lies in the universities established by JP Morgan with his false books.

FACT: CHOLESTEROL IS SO IMPORTANT FOR YOUR BODY THAT MEASURED IN EEGs EVERY GROWN UP SHALL HAVE 15 SOFT EGGS PER DAY. CHOLESTEROL IS THE FOOD FOR THE BRAIN (THEY DONT WANT YOU TO WAKE UP SO THAT IS WHY WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE IT)
FACT: TABLE SALT IS 1/3 SALT, 1/3 SAND, 1/3 GLASS. THE GLASS CUTS YOUR VEINS INSIDE. CHOLESTEROL COMES TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE OVER AND OVER WHICH NARROWS THE PASS-WAY FOR THE BLOOD AND THEIR COMES THE DANGER. SO PLENTY OF WATER AND 1.5 TSP OF SEA SALT EVERY DAY PLUS A BUNCH OF EGGS IS GOOD FOR YOU AND YOU WILL SEE WHO IT EFFECTS YOUR BRAIN.. HE HE . .

By the way our body works on electricity, and electricity cannot move around without salt. All is logic, but not if you dont have any sense left by listening to rubbish. Eat eggs and feel Eggcellent ;-)

Dont be fooled by tricksters .

perhaps you should read a post before commenting. who said that sodium increases stomach acid? here's a quote from wikipedia for you:

Gastric acid is a digestive fluid, formed in the stomach. It has a pH of 1.5 to 3.5 and is composed of hydrochloric acid (HCl) (around 0.5%, or 5000 parts per million), and large quantities of potassium chloride (KCl) and sodium chloride (NaCl). The acid plays a key role in digestion of proteins, by activating digestive enzymes, and making ingested proteins unravel so that digestive enzymes can break down the long chains of amino acids.

chloride plays the acidic part here. what sodium bicarbonate does is kill your stomach acid.

i don't know why you include cholesterol in this discussion since it's something totally unrelated but i'll address your statement anyway.

cholesterol ingestion is not required by the body. the body is perfectly capable of producing its own cholesterol in the liver. otherwise vegans would have a(nother) big problem.

the reason why cholesterol collects in arteries is that excessive free radicals damage the artery walls and small oxidized particles of the LDL cholesterol get stuck in there. if more get stuck than can be removed by phagocytes the artery will eventually get blocked.

there is no glass in veins and there's no arteriosclerosis in veins. nor is there any glass in arteries (where ARTERIOsclerosis happens) which cuts them. how should it get in there? it would have to pass through the cells in the intestinal wall first and then through the liver (a filtering organ, among other things).

get your facts straight. arteriosclerosis and high cholesterol have nothing whatsoever to do with salt intake.

oh, and sand or glass consist in large part of silicium dioxide. silicium is a vital trace element that is a component of pretty much all plants and animals.

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Posted by UnrealDreams (here)
Any salt, no matter what variety it is, is a toxin to the human body. This is a fact. It's up to you what you want to do with this info. Another fact is that your body does need sodium. The body gets plenty of sodium in natural foods such as fruits and veggies, and requires zero supplemetal salt. Personally, I use very little supplemental salt in my diet, and I take potassium supplements to maintain this critical potassium sodium balance.

it's not a fact that all salts are toxic to the body. in fact, lots of stuff that we ingest every day is partially composed of salts. to quote wikipedia again:

In chemistry, salts are ionic compounds that result from the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base. They are composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is electrically neutral (without a net charge). These component ions can be inorganic such as chloride (Cl−), as well as organic such as acetate (CH3COO−) and monatomic ions such as fluoride (F−), as well as polyatomic ions such as sulfate (SO42−).

Common salt-forming cations include:
Ammonium NH4+
Calcium Ca2+
Iron Fe2+ and Fe3+
Magnesium Mg2+
Potassium K+
Pyridinium C5H5NH+
Quaternary ammonium NR4+
Sodium Na+

Common salt-forming anions (parent acids in parentheses where available) include:
Acetate CH3COO− (acetic acid)
Carbonate CO32− (carbonic acid)
Chloride Cl− (hydrochloric acid)
Citrate HOC(COO−)(CH2COO−)2 (citric acid)
Cyanide C≡N− (N/A)
Nitrate NO3− (nitric acid)
Nitrite NO2− (nitrous acid)
Phosphate PO43− (phosphoric acid)
Sulfate SO42− (sulfuric acid)

somebody who eats mostly or only fruits and veggies will all but stop to produce stomach acid because fruits and veggies are alkaline and don't contain much chloride, and they're built in large part of carbohydrates which are digested by enzymes in the mouth and small intestine, not in the stomach. the body won't produce a lot of stomach acid of it's not needed and if only a little or no chloride (from sodium chloride) is ingested.