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There is so much controversy about salt. One time I was talking to a fellow gym rat about taking in enough sodium through eating salt, and had a nurse who was working out in the same general area come over to me, literally shaking with rage, and berate me for making such obviously harmful statements. You would have thought I’d been caught in the middle of some particularly heinous act.

Didn’t change my mind. In fact, I gently referred her to a recent AMA release that admitted that their stance on sodium for most people, who do not have a certain relatively rare medical condition, has been in error for years. I asked her to get back to me after she read it. Never saw her again.

The body needs the electrolytes sodium and potassium to function. You die if you do not have enough of each. I’ve been studying this subject for a long time. The action of the sodium-potassium pump in the human body just happened to be the subject of my first college class that I sat in on when I was a senior in high school. If you do not have enough of both, you have huge short-term AND long-term problems. One of my high school classmates learned that lesson the hardest possible way. He died from a diet substance that leached potassium from his body.
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