Re:Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup
by jgrowl on Saturday June 16, 2018 @08:07PM
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I'm on a ketogenic diet and I measure out a full tablespoon of salt for my daily consumption. I usually get somewhere between 7-8 grams of sodium a day. My mind was blown when I saw the McMaster study on sodium that found that for normal diets, 5 grams daily showed no increased mortality of all causes. I think it was too much below 3g or much above 7g is where things start to get dangerous. I had to do some trial and error to find the right amount of salt for me and I'm still tweaking it here and there.
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But they're talking about all source sodium, not just added sodium. How much sodium is in the rest of your food?
EDIT: one tablespoon is 18 gm of salt. That's over 6 gm of sodium.
EDIT2: Also, the study you're talking about says this:
> We noted that most of the world’s population (about 95%) studied consumes more than 3 g/day of sodium, regardless of hypertension status and only 22% consume 6 g/day or more of sodium—the threshold above which we note an increase in mortality and cardiovascular disease risk.
I don't really eat any prepackaged foods besides macadamia/coconut milk. Mainly broccoli, spinach, celery, eggs, chicken, turkey, tuna and a ton of coconut/olive oil. A tablespoon of salt is 7080 mg of sodium. There haven't been any studies looking at ideal sodium intake for people on keto as far as I know, though it is generally accepted that there is a higher need since the liver gets efficient at excreting sodium.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend others take as much sodium as I do, only that personally I seem to feel better around that level. I have heard from some people that take as much as 11g a day on keto. I would definitely not exceed 5g much if I was on doing a standard diet though.