Monday, March 10

Salt Sensitivity and the Sea

No brining for this chick.  Low to no sodium foods are impossible to find (where are no salt El Milagro Tortilla Chips anymore).  Plenty of gluten-free but no foods (without sodium) for me (sodium sensitivity) besides cooking from scratch.
The Mother Load at Central Market in Houston, are five bags enough for the month?
For over ten years after moving to Mississippi I suffered from what I thought was food poisoning or acute (hot burning pain) pain in my left shoulder blade and left arm (felt like hot lava burning down my left arm to my ring finger) after eating but over the past 2 years discovered that it is the salt and it is a genetic trait.  A piece of brined turkey or pork will have me suffering all night long.

My Personal Salt Index: no more a one-size-fits-all approached from American Heart Association and the Institute of Medicine.  The resulting research funded by NHLBI shows that each individual is genetically programmed with a “personal salt index” and thus sodium chloride dietary guidelines should be personalized.

Study of Salt Sensitivity, Feb 2001
I can walk or run now and feel no pain or shortness of breath.


Here is the supporting research that 1 in 4 suffer from sensitivity to salt (possibly from sodium).  
“The blood pressure of about 25 percent of the population is sensitive to salt, increasing risk for strokes, heart attacks and kidney failure. An individual’s response to salt cannot be measured in a doctor’s office. Therefore, we developed a simple test to help the medical community determine an individual’s ability to tolerate salt, which we are calling the ‘personal salt index.’"
"You can also read the ingredient list to identify sources of sodium in your food. Watch for the words: “soda” (referring to sodium bicarbonate, also known as baking soda) and “sodium” (including sodium nitrate, sodium citrate, monosodium glutamate [MSG] and sodium benzoate)."
University of Virginia Medical Researchers, published in Clinica Chimica Acta, (International Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Diagnostic Laboratories Medicine, IFCC) New Diagnostic Test for Salt of a 183 sample size
"Twenty-five percent of individuals are salt sensitive, and about 11 percent are inverse salt-sensitive, and everybody else sits in the middle," says Felder.
Dietary Salt Intake, Salt Sensitivity, and Cardiovascular Health, 2008

Recipes for yummy Saltless dishes
 They found that, after about 25 years, 123 (about 21 percent) of the original group had died from a cardiovascular disease or other cause. Participants who had normal blood pressure but were salt sensitive at the outset fared no better than those who were hypertensive at the outset. Only those with normal blood pressure who were not salt sensitive at the outset had a significantly better survival rate.
In the new research, investigators followed up on persons who had participated in a hypertension study done more than 25 years ago. The original group included 708 persons aged 18 to 80. Investigators located 596 of the group and re-examined those still living. For those who had died, the investigators identified the cause.
At the time of the initial study, about 40 percent of the group had hypertension, about 45 percent were salt sensitive, about 44 percent were women, and about 25 percent were African American. About 26 percent of the original group had normal blood pressure and a sensitivity to salt.
Dietary salt intake promotes endothelial cell production of TGF-β1 and Nitric Oxide
Diabetic patients differ from nondiabetic patients by having an increase in total body sodium (2,3), renal tubular sodium reabsorption, and an impaired ability to excrete a sodium load (4). These factors suggest that natriuretic peptides (NPs) may play a key role in the pathophysiology of hypertension in the diabetic population. 
Peripheral Neuropathy (of tingling or numbness in the arms) may must be a symptom of a larger problems with how some pass through sodium and potassium ions.  Most doctors that I have been to over the decades only attempt to treat the pain and not help to prevent it in the first place.  I had one doctor (who owned a gym) say that I need to lift weight more.  Well I did that and still got sick after coming back from a holiday to see family (where too much salt was unknowning ingested).  Another one gave me a chest x-ray and said that I had pre-pnemonia (aka walking pneumonia). One doctor said to not worry about it and let him worry about it. Hogwash.  Reducing salt intact and cooking my own foods are the only that works even chips, bread, and crackers.

Occurs at night: Darkness cyclic GMP opens up the Sodium and Calcium ion channels in the outer segment of the photoreceptor, thus depolarizing the cell after sodium influx.  Light (1 photon) actually depletes the cGMP in the outer segment which has the effect of closing aforementioned ion channel and hyperpolarizing the cell.

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