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- 0:24Speaker 1: Now Here is doctor Troy.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. This is a fascinating
- 0:41Speaker 2: podcast that I've been wanting to do for a while,
- 0:43Speaker 2: and this is on salt and the possibility of high
- 0:47Speaker 2: blood pressure. And so this particular article came across my
- 0:51Speaker 2: desk and it's entitled I want to make sure I
- 0:53Speaker 2: get the article title correct here Hypertension Worst foods for
- 0:58Speaker 2: high blood pressure. Now, the public out there, and that
- 1:01Speaker 2: probably includes you and probably even me if I were
- 1:05Speaker 2: before asked, Hey, what do you think they're going to
- 1:08Speaker 2: talk about on a hypertension article worse foods for high
- 1:11Speaker 2: blood pressure? I'm thinking anything with a lot of salt
- 1:17Speaker 2: in it, and you'd be correct. Out of like the
- 1:20Speaker 2: ten foods that they tell you, nine of them are
- 1:24Speaker 2: all because of salt content. But here's the thing. I
- 1:27Speaker 2: want to read you the very first paragraphs, a couple sentences,
- 1:29Speaker 2: and we're going to kind of digest what exactly are
- 1:32Speaker 2: they saying in this particular thing. So here we go.
- 1:35Speaker 2: It says the shrimp fried rice at your favorite spot
- 1:40Speaker 2: might be amazing, but it's likely full of sodium. Research
- 1:44Speaker 2: suggests most of the sodium in US diets comes from
- 1:49Speaker 2: restaurants and packaged foods. Look for low sodium menu options,
- 1:53Speaker 2: or ask the chef to make your meal without salt.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Try other flavors instead, like lemon juice on fish and veggies.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Most adults should eat no more than twenty three hundred
- 2:07Speaker 2: milligrams of sodium a day. That's one teaspoon. Now, interestingly enough,
- 2:12Speaker 2: on this medicine Net article, it has no research whatsoever.
- 2:21Speaker 2: So we're just going to allow these people whoever wrote
- 2:23Speaker 2: this to just basically tell us their opinion that, hey,
- 2:26Speaker 2: twenty three milligrams of sodium a day is plenty for you,
- 2:31Speaker 2: my friend. And while that is true, it's about one
- 2:34Speaker 2: teaspoon or five grams of sodium chloride because seventy percent
- 2:39Speaker 2: of sodium chloride is chloride. And we'll get to the
- 2:41Speaker 2: chloride aspect in just a moment. But this is not
- 2:45Speaker 2: necessarily the greatest thing. So as we look at this,
- 2:49Speaker 2: we're like, okay, well, what really is going on here?
- 2:53Speaker 2: So what it says is if we do not consume
- 2:56Speaker 2: sufficient sodium, I'm reading from another article. This is one
- 2:59Speaker 2: of the trusted side that I will actually look at
- 3:03Speaker 2: freely frequently for nutritional information. And I love west and
- 3:07Speaker 2: Aprice dot org. You can actually find decent information that
- 3:12Speaker 2: is probably very close to the truth, if not the truth,
- 3:16Speaker 2: or at least how what is real and how the
- 3:19Speaker 2: body responds to certain things. So this particular paragraph that
- 3:23Speaker 2: I'm going to read you is what journal article reviewed.
- 3:28Speaker 2: But there are actually five articles to support this particular
- 3:33Speaker 2: two paragraphs that I'm getting ready to read you in
- 3:35Speaker 2: this long article. But so here we go. If we
- 3:38Speaker 2: do not consume sufficient sodium, our metabolism, driven by specific
- 3:42Speaker 2: feedback mechanisms, goes into a sodium sparing mode so that
- 3:47Speaker 2: the circulatory system can maintain osmotic balance and adequate blood pressure.
- 3:53Speaker 2: So let me explain a little bit more about that
- 3:55Speaker 2: first sentence. If we do not eat enough salt, our
- 3:58Speaker 2: body tries to actually start conserving any salt leaving because
- 4:03Speaker 2: it knows it needs it. Sodium has to be in
- 4:06Speaker 2: balance with potassium as water is made to go in
- 4:11Speaker 2: and out of cells via that. So we have sodium
- 4:14Speaker 2: pumps on the cell membranes. That's every cell in our body,
- 4:18Speaker 2: doesn't matter, you know what cell it is. We have
- 4:21Speaker 2: sodium pumps. And these sodium pumps are super important to
- 4:26Speaker 2: get things in and out of cells. We have potassium
- 4:28Speaker 2: pumps all of that, and so when we don't have
- 4:31Speaker 2: enough sodium, it actually is a major detriment. So let's
- 4:37Speaker 2: read a little further. This has several important consequences for us.
- 4:42Speaker 2: A reduced intake of sodium is characterized by the stimulation
- 4:47Speaker 2: of renin, angiotenson, aldosterone hormonal system. Now I'm gonna just
- 4:54Speaker 2: pause here. You don't necessarily have to know what each
- 4:58Speaker 2: of these things do, though you could look them up. Rennin, ngeotenson,
- 5:03Speaker 2: and aldosterone. There's certain hormone systems, and they're going to
- 5:07Speaker 2: go on and say, hey, rennin. The first enzyme taking
- 5:11Speaker 2: part in this RaaS, which is the renin aldosterones angiotension system,
- 5:19Speaker 2: was clearly shown to in a dose response curve. Now,
- 5:24Speaker 2: this is where the research article comes from to increase
- 5:27Speaker 2: as sodium intake falls below one hundred and fifty million
- 5:32Speaker 2: miles of sodium or one point five tea spoons or
- 5:36Speaker 2: eight grams of salt per day. So let's go back
- 5:40Speaker 2: real quick and recap that they said we shouldn't have
- 5:43Speaker 2: more than one teaspoon of salt today, but at below
- 5:48Speaker 2: one point five teaspoons of salt per day, we start
- 5:51Speaker 2: to have rennin increase. So what renin does? Now, it's
- 5:56Speaker 2: really nice that they tell us at a point of
- 5:59Speaker 2: intake below one hundred and ten million moles just over
- 6:02Speaker 2: a tea spoon of sodium per day, renin begins to
- 6:06Speaker 2: rise rapidly. The feedback mechanism is the most transparent measure
- 6:12Speaker 2: of our dose response to salt intake and is a
- 6:16Speaker 2: fundamental indicator of sodium intake sufficiency. So how they recognize
- 6:20Speaker 2: whether or not you're getting enough sodium in your diet
- 6:22Speaker 2: is how much renin you have. Now, here's the thing.
- 6:25Speaker 2: This next paragraph is much shorter, but it talks about
- 6:29Speaker 2: what happens when renin and aldosterone both begin to elevate
- 6:33Speaker 2: because of this system, and it's salt dependent. Although this
- 6:37Speaker 2: cascade of reactions is designed to sustain osmotic balance or
- 6:43Speaker 2: water in and out of cells and blood pressure. Chronically
- 6:47Speaker 2: elevated levels of renin and aldosterone have significant negative effects
- 6:52Speaker 2: on the condition of the circulatory system. That means your
- 6:55Speaker 2: heart and vascular system, your blood vessels like heart disease,
- 6:59Speaker 2: and may stem emulate inflammatory agents within the body. Now
- 7:04Speaker 2: this last sentence is really key here, so just hear
- 7:07Speaker 2: this out. It says, included among the negative outcomes of
- 7:12Speaker 2: chronically elevated levels of rennin and aldosterone, meaning chronically low
- 7:16Speaker 2: levels of sodium, we see insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease,
- 7:26Speaker 2: cognition loss, so brain problems, and it says others. These
- 7:32Speaker 2: are all referenced. So it's pretty fascinating that you can
- 7:36Speaker 2: actually find references on low sodium causing disease conditions, but
- 7:41Speaker 2: you really won't find anything on its benefits because there
- 7:46Speaker 2: really aren't any. Now, is there an issue if we
- 7:49Speaker 2: do too much salt? Yes, but low sodium is extremely detrimental.
- 7:55Speaker 2: So the question now begs is what kind of levels
- 8:00Speaker 2: should I be doing? And so most of the research
- 8:03Speaker 2: out there says, hey, eight grams or one and a
- 8:07Speaker 2: half teaspoons of sodium a day would be awesome. So
- 8:11Speaker 2: sodium in and of itself, we would say, okay, well,
- 8:13Speaker 2: thirty five hundred milligrams of sodium is about kind of
- 8:18Speaker 2: a threshold. We'd like to stay somewhere around there, maybe
- 8:21Speaker 2: even a little bit more. So, now we could go
- 8:23Speaker 2: back to this article on what foods are really important
- 8:27Speaker 2: or high blood pressure. Of course, low sodium can cause
- 8:30Speaker 2: high blood pressure, but you know high sodium doesn't seem
- 8:36Speaker 2: to do that so much. Now you might say, well,
- 8:39Speaker 2: I've read read articles. Okay, well, let me at least
- 8:41Speaker 2: tell you what is actually happening or what the articles
- 8:45Speaker 2: at show for high sodium intake. So here it is
- 8:49Speaker 2: dalt and blood pressure. Major reductions in salt more than
- 8:54Speaker 2: half of our current consumption, About thirty percent of the
- 8:57Speaker 2: population will experience a slight drop in systolic blood pressure.
- 9:02Speaker 2: Now let me say that again. With salt reduction, we'll
- 9:06Speaker 2: notice about two to six millimeters of mercury. So let's
- 9:11Speaker 2: say that my blood pressure is high, like what medical
- 9:14Speaker 2: doctors would say is high. Like let's say one fifty
- 9:16Speaker 2: five over ninety five. And the first number, that one
- 9:20Speaker 2: fifty five is systolic, and that's where they're seeing the
- 9:23Speaker 2: drop of two to six millimeters. So if I drop
- 9:26Speaker 2: two millimeters instead of one fifty five, I'm at one
- 9:28Speaker 2: fifty three. Is that going to be like shocking to
- 9:31Speaker 2: my doctor? Oh my gosh, you don't need medication, you're
- 9:33Speaker 2: you're good. Well, what if it's six Okay, it's one
- 9:35Speaker 2: forty nine. No, it really is meaningless. Now, while about
- 9:42Speaker 2: twenty percent of Americans we'll see a similar increase in
- 9:47Speaker 2: blood pressure if they are on a low sodium diet,
- 9:50Speaker 2: so fascinating. Now what about the remaining fifty percent, there's
- 9:55Speaker 2: no effect. So if we reduce salt, we actually see
- 9:59Speaker 2: a minimum reduction in about thirty percent of the population
- 10:03Speaker 2: with systolic blood pressure. Now that's not the diastolic, that's
- 10:07Speaker 2: not the lower number, which is actually the more important number.
- 10:09Speaker 2: And I have a blood pressure podcast on that, so
- 10:13Speaker 2: you're welcome to look at that. That's totally fine. So
- 10:16Speaker 2: as we reduce sodium, it actually isn't what we hoped
- 10:20Speaker 2: to actually achieve. Now, I do remember long ago reading
- 10:24Speaker 2: an article that said they took I think it was
- 10:28Speaker 2: ten thousand people, but it might only been sixty six
- 10:31Speaker 2: hundred people. So six six hundred people are about ten
- 10:34Speaker 2: thousand people. They took them all off their high blood
- 10:37Speaker 2: pressure medication and it was something crazy. They like stopped
- 10:40Speaker 2: it in like six months because half of them had
- 10:42Speaker 2: died and they realized that a low sodium diet meant nothing.
- 10:45Speaker 2: And so with that, I think we've known for quite
- 10:48Speaker 2: some time that salt is not the deal that we're
- 10:51Speaker 2: making it to be for blood pressure. So with that understanding,
- 10:54Speaker 2: I'm going to go back to the medical article that
- 10:57Speaker 2: talked about food. So shrimp fried rice, my gosh, don't
- 11:01Speaker 2: do that because the sodium in it is so high.
- 11:04Speaker 2: Frozen meals they said, again they're quoting in this nothing
- 11:08Speaker 2: health benefit, they're just touting sodium limits. And so guess
- 11:13Speaker 2: how much is in some convenient fast food. Oh my gosh,
- 11:19Speaker 2: six hundred milligrams of sodium. And I'm just thinking, really,
- 11:24Speaker 2: that's loaded. And so it's just like, all right, well,
- 11:27Speaker 2: salty snacks, okay. So if we're gonna eat popcorn, crackers,
- 11:32Speaker 2: most chips, they're gonna be high in sodium. An ounce
- 11:35Speaker 2: of plain potato chips is about fifty to two hundred milligrams.
- 11:38Speaker 2: That's that's a big range. So if I eat a
- 11:42Speaker 2: five ounce bag of potato chips, which is quite a
- 11:45Speaker 2: few I might get between two hundred and fifty and
- 11:48Speaker 2: possibly one thousand milligrams of sodium, which would be a
- 11:52Speaker 2: third of my daily allowance if we were dealing with
- 11:55Speaker 2: numbers that made some sense. Now, do I really want
- 11:58Speaker 2: to eat the pros sodium in some of these meals
- 12:02Speaker 2: because they're not using Celtic salt. They're not using unrefined
- 12:06Speaker 2: sea salt, which would be a big deal actually, and
- 12:08Speaker 2: if they just did that, we probably wouldn't be talking
- 12:10Speaker 2: about salt at all, so we could say, well, yeah,
- 12:14Speaker 2: the amount of salt that they're using probably isn't great,
- 12:17Speaker 2: and the kind of salt probably isn't great, but the
- 12:20Speaker 2: chloride in it is really good for digestion because the
- 12:24Speaker 2: chloride in food or sodium chloride that we eat in food,
- 12:27Speaker 2: the table salt is actually going to make hydrochloric acid
- 12:30Speaker 2: in our stomach, which is going to help tremendously digestion
- 12:33Speaker 2: and detox So it's something that I tell folks that
- 12:37Speaker 2: if you're thinking about avoiding salt for high blood pressure,
- 12:39Speaker 2: you're on the wrong You're on the wrong train. You
- 12:42Speaker 2: really need to think about something different. They took on
- 12:44Speaker 2: pickled foods and their juices, thinking, okay, so now we're
- 12:48Speaker 2: going to actually measure. Pickle juice has about nine hundred milligrams,
- 12:53Speaker 2: depending on the brand, in three ounces of pickle juice.
- 12:56Speaker 2: I don't know how many people were drinking pickle juice,
- 12:58Speaker 2: but hey, go for it. I get so I drink
- 13:00Speaker 2: pickle juice. Well, yeah, the extra sodium probably might be
- 13:02Speaker 2: actually helpful for it. Bread I thought, well, yeah, bread
- 13:05Speaker 2: does have some sodium inutes because that's the way it's made,
- 13:09Speaker 2: and so one slice of bread is between eighty and
- 13:12Speaker 2: two hundred milligrams or two hundred and thirty milligrams. Oh
- 13:15Speaker 2: my gosh, we should be dying on a piece of bread.
- 13:19Speaker 2: So again, it's kind of laughable, but this is the article,
- 13:22Speaker 2: and I think they're just trying to make sure it
- 13:24Speaker 2: has enough content to reach some type of threshold so
- 13:28Speaker 2: that Google will pick it up. I don't know. Soup now, okay,
- 13:32Speaker 2: if anybody's had a can of soup, they've got some soap,
- 13:35Speaker 2: they've got some salt, But ultimately one cup or eight
- 13:40Speaker 2: ounces of tomato soup they're taking here has seven hundred
- 13:43Speaker 2: to twelve hundred milligrams now again you're thinking that is
- 13:46Speaker 2: actually a lot of salt, and yeah, but it's still
- 13:50Speaker 2: only a third of the daily allowance, and could you
- 13:52Speaker 2: handle doing more? I suppose if you're doing five cans
- 13:56Speaker 2: of tomato soup a day, you know, maybe that is
- 13:59Speaker 2: a problem. It would be roughly thirty five hundred milligrams
- 14:03Speaker 2: of sodium, and well that would be our daily allowance.
- 14:07Speaker 2: You might find that it's not so great because it's
- 14:10Speaker 2: just sodium chloride and it's not everything else that we
- 14:14Speaker 2: would get. I think like unrefined salt has twenty two
- 14:17Speaker 2: or twenty three or twenty four minerals in it, where
- 14:20Speaker 2: some types of salt have even more minerals that are
- 14:23Speaker 2: naturally occurring in that, which is awesome. I mean, it's
- 14:26Speaker 2: a better way to go. And so here we now
- 14:29Speaker 2: look at tomato juice. How many people have drank tomato juice?
- 14:33Speaker 2: Or six hundred and sixty milligrams of sodium in three
- 14:36Speaker 2: quarters of a cup? So six ounces. They're not letting
- 14:39Speaker 2: you have a cup. They're just letting you have three quarters.
- 14:40Speaker 2: I don't know what three quarters meant. I don't know
- 14:43Speaker 2: why that was such a deal six ounces, But we
- 14:46Speaker 2: could pretty much say, okay, every ounce has one hundred
- 14:49Speaker 2: milligrams of sodium. All right, well, thank you for letting
- 14:52Speaker 2: me know how much that has. Next they say process
- 14:56Speaker 2: meat is like, okay, well this is not a big shocker.
- 14:58Speaker 2: Process meat, sure, and so how much? So lunch meat
- 15:02Speaker 2: typically has about seven hundred and fifty milligrams or more
- 15:05Speaker 2: of sodium per serving, So now you got to look
- 15:08Speaker 2: at serving size. But even the package is going to
- 15:11Speaker 2: tell you in a serving how much sodium is there.
- 15:13Speaker 2: And if you're trying to add up your total daily allowance,
- 15:17Speaker 2: I suppose you could so eating soup and you're eating
- 15:19Speaker 2: lunch meat and who knows what else, trimp fried rice. Okay,
- 15:25Speaker 2: you're getting some sodium, all right, Well your digestion probably
- 15:29Speaker 2: is pretty happy about it. So they're gonna now they're
- 15:32Speaker 2: they're hitting me below the belt here on this one. Pizza.
- 15:35Speaker 2: I love pizza. Now, it's hard to find really good pizza.
- 15:39Speaker 2: You might even text me, or rather email me and
- 15:43Speaker 2: shoot back like what your favorite pizza is and where
- 15:45Speaker 2: I can get it in what city? Because I do
- 15:47Speaker 2: visit places on a frequent occasion. In Chicago, is having
- 15:52Speaker 2: what is it? Stuff? Pie? Oh my gosh, do they
- 15:55Speaker 2: do it well there so for anyways, So a four
- 15:58Speaker 2: ounce slice of froz cheese pizza, I'm thinking, who would
- 16:02Speaker 2: eat a frozen cheese pizza? I mean, my friend do
- 16:04Speaker 2: it right? But there's three hundred and seventy to seven
- 16:07Speaker 2: hundred milligrams in that. A four ounce slice of restaurant
- 16:10Speaker 2: has even more five ten to six seven sixty on average.
- 16:14Speaker 2: I think I'm going for the restaurant at this point.
- 16:16Speaker 2: And so that's I mean, I'm not even sure what
- 16:19Speaker 2: four ounces a pizza is. How much is one slice
- 16:22Speaker 2: of pizza? I don't even know, but apparently they're going
- 16:24Speaker 2: to tell us four ounces. So now we got to
- 16:26Speaker 2: ask the staff in the back to weigh it. Now
- 16:28Speaker 2: here was the one thing I found fascinating the article,
- 16:30Speaker 2: the one thing that wasn't sodium related alcohol, So this
- 16:36Speaker 2: was interesting. They said that alcohol you should stick to.
- 16:40Speaker 2: Men should stick to two drinks and women should stick
- 16:43Speaker 2: to one. And so what one drink, one drink looks
- 16:46Speaker 2: like is twelve ounces of beer, four ounces of wine,
- 16:48Speaker 2: or one and a half ounces of eighty proof or
- 16:50Speaker 2: one ounce of one hundred proof spirits. I'm thinking, all right,
- 16:55Speaker 2: so I'm allowed two drinks a day. Well, probably not
- 16:59Speaker 2: going to do that. But then they pulled on cheese.
- 17:02Speaker 2: I'm thinking cheese, are you kidding me? Like, what are
- 17:04Speaker 2: they gonna say in cheese like saturated fat? Oh no,
- 17:06Speaker 2: it's more about salt, and thinking what you get to
- 17:10Speaker 2: pick on salt? And it was it was sodium, like
- 17:12Speaker 2: Swiss is low in salt, seventy five milligrams per ounce. Well,
- 17:17Speaker 2: thank goodness, but half a cup. Now we're dealing with
- 17:20Speaker 2: four ounces of cottage cheese is four hundred and thirty
- 17:25Speaker 2: or excuse me, four hundred and fifty five milligrams of sodium.
- 17:29Speaker 2: I have other issues with cottage cheese. I don't know
- 17:31Speaker 2: about you, but I'm just not sold on cottage cheese.
- 17:34Speaker 2: And then they get into condiments. I'm like, oh, this's
- 17:36Speaker 2: gotta be sodium. Oh yeah, it's sodium. Even ketchup soy
- 17:39Speaker 2: sauce they talk about all have a fair amount. But
- 17:42Speaker 2: they say, hey, you could do some low sodium substitutes
- 17:45Speaker 2: like lemon juice or vinegar. Thinking, all right, but I'm
- 17:50Speaker 2: not real interested. So this article on sodium and high
- 17:54Speaker 2: blood pressure would lead us to believe that it is
- 17:59Speaker 2: high blood pressure that is caused by sodium, and yet
- 18:04Speaker 2: there's nothing in here that talks about any peer reviewed
- 18:08Speaker 2: journal articles to substantiate hypertension and sodium intake. And yet
- 18:14Speaker 2: here on another site where I trust the nutritional information,
- 18:18Speaker 2: and they talk about how much sodium ality you actually
- 18:22Speaker 2: ought to have, at least a minimum, and what conditions
- 18:26Speaker 2: you could have if indeed you were on a low
- 18:29Speaker 2: sodium diet. And why wouldn't we get at least enough
- 18:34Speaker 2: salt in our body to allow our cells to exchange
- 18:37Speaker 2: water and be healthier and live a healthier, happier, much
- 18:42Speaker 2: more tasteful life. It is interesting at the end of
- 18:45Speaker 2: the article. I didn't know this, but they said that salad,
- 18:49Speaker 2: the old term or the reason that it's called salad,
- 18:52Speaker 2: is for sal which means salt. You salt vegetables with
- 18:57Speaker 2: which helps liberate certain things out of the vegetable. I thought, Wow,
- 19:02Speaker 2: it's just fun to learn something new every single day.
- 19:06Speaker 2: So hope this was helpful for you. I hope you
- 19:08Speaker 2: had a good journey with me on the salt thing,
- 19:10Speaker 2: and that it's really just kind of calms your mind
- 19:12Speaker 2: about sodium and high blood pressure. And if you have
- 19:15Speaker 2: high blood pressure, you might find that doing enough sodium,
- 19:18Speaker 2: or at least good you know, unrefined salt. You might
- 19:24Speaker 2: find that as you lower the rennin and aldostrone in
- 19:27Speaker 2: your body, that all of a sudden you may notice,
- 19:30Speaker 2: you know what. I think my blood pressure is better,
- 19:32Speaker 2: I think my inflammation is better. I think everything is better,
- 19:36Speaker 2: and everything tastes better too. So until next time, I'm
- 19:41Speaker 2: doctor Troy, and remember there is way more right with
- 19:44Speaker 2: you than there is wrong with you.
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