hello friends welcome to my channel i'm glad you decided to join me today i'm dr t i'm a board certified international cardiology physiology and lifestyle medicine today we're going to review what we learned in the last video we're going to look at the 10 signs we're eating too much salt you're going to ask the big question how bad is it we'll answer that at the end of the video we'll end up with a quiz time so in the last video look at the importance of salt white gold throughout history as a currency as a source of wealth like venice that gained its importance as the city it is today because of the white gold they had the monopoly sold at that time we distinguish between table salt and sodium as well so let's dive in top 10 signs and symptoms you're eating too much salt number 10 you're feeling in intense first all the time you dry mouth so if you eat too much salt the body will try to compensate by sending a signal to your brain to let you up now that you need to drink more on the other hand your kidneys will work harder to eliminate the sodium and bring the sodium level into a normal range uh number nine you are urinating too much the sod will pull water out of your cells into the extracellular space that will be eliminated by the urine if it happens at night can obviously interrupt your sleep it's important to notice there are other causes of the excessive first and excessive urination one damage diabetes so if the symptoms persist you need to talk to your doctor and make sure you test it that you don't miss diabetes number eight you crave salty foods your food tastes meh not that great so using too much salt in fact plants the taste receptors requiring more salt for your food to taste good the good news is the taste receptors actually will not notice uh 20 to 30 decrease in the salt in your food we could take advantage of that to decrease the amount of salt in our diet and number seven uh fatigue and headaches narcon the british medical journal recently showed that salt actually triggers radix independent independent of the rise in blood pressure number six excessive salt will stress your kidneys potential leading to leak protein and urine in addition excessive sodium also leads too much calcium in the urine leading to kidney stones mostly kidney stones in our calcium oxalate we are halfway through i will learn something new so far start to the end of the video learn some more stuff number five swallowing and edema you may feel bloated you may notice puffiness below your eyes your fingers are swelling your ring is too tight and your ankles swell these are all signs of being we could be eating too much salt increasing fluid in the tissue space number four you may notice and explain weight gain even without much swelling the scale will let you know if you go out and have a salty meal next morning the scale will tell you uh that you had too much salt even the weight will be up you know two or three pounds that's why patients with congestive heart failure and other conditions we tell them to weigh themselves uh daily or very frequently they call us if their weight goes up more than five pounds or more in a week trying to avoid further decompensation that could potentially lead to real hospitalization number three uh brain fog you can't think straight a little bit confused this could be a sign to you having too much salt number two you're not sleeping well you may have sleep interrupted because you feel too thirsty because you need to urinate or you may have you know shortness of breath especially if you have historical congestion heart failure that could be a cause why you're not sleeping well and number one high blood pressure and you have to be careful some people are salt sensitive and even a single meal can increase their blood pressure but other people are salt resistant and even if they eat quite a bit of salt it won't increase high blood pressure regrettably we do not have a test to distinguish who is salt sensitive and who is solves salt resistant but in general uh salt sensitivity is high in hypertension about 50 percent 51 percent obese elderly and african americans and in normal tensives uh people with normal blood pressure 26 are still salt sensitive one size does not really uh fit all in conclusions we have to say salt is absolutely vital to our health uh 70 of our salt comes from processed and restaurant foods 90 of americans eat too much salt we went over the signs and symptoms that we may be uh getting too much salt i will tell the bathroom scale will let you know what you had for the end of the night before if the weight is up it's probably because you had too much salt and the big question is how bad is it in fact it is uh pretty bad because too much salt is deleterious to your health it's going to cause high blood pressure going to contribute to more heart attacks and more strokes and even alzheimer's it's a quiz time which nutrients americans do not eat enough potassium magnesium fiber vitamin d is sodium is all the above except sodium which are signs you are eating too much salt you're very thirsty you urinate a lot you feel brain fog none of these one two or one two and three one two and three are in fact correct and next video which uh which is the statements are are strew uh himalayan salt kosher salt the different types of salt do they have the same sodium content or one are better than the others next question consuming too much sodium will increase your risk for high blood pressure heart disease and stroke all none of the above if you like this video please subscribe to my channel and click the notification bell i'm trying to make these videos as interactive as possible we'll publish a video on the second and fourth friday of each month and remember your health is too important to be delegated to others let's take control see you on next video [Music]
