Low salt diets are dangerous.

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Hi folks, speaking as one person who is going through the same thing as maybe you.I am on a low salt diet and it's causing havok with my body.I'd like you to speak up if you are on a low salt diet.Here is a website about the importance of salt for everyday.Make sure the salt is unrefined salt too.

http://www.watercure2.org/salt.htm

Since i have been on this low to no salt diet i have eperienced kidney problems and had gout.Not good and i don't know what else is happening either.I am only 28 years old.
 
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I don't mean to be unsympathetic, but you're making some assumptions about cause and effect here.

This happened after I did that, therefore that caused this. Not always the case.

The other issues may be results of the same problems that got you place on the low salt diet in the first place rather than a result of the low salt diet.

And nothing in that list you posted addresses the reason low-salt diets are prescribed, excess sodium and its effects. It actually seems to dismiss the known link between sodium and hypertension as an old wive's tale.

Kidney issues also arise from high sodium, so your own kidney issues may be the reason for the low salt diet, not the result. Again, do not confuse chronology with cause and effect.
 
2 years ago I suffered from kidney stones. My doctor's advice: drink enough. I sometimes could wait 8 hours before going to the toilet. That is not good.

After some hospitalizations and kidney stone crushing operations, I am now good. But I do drink a lot more than 2 years ago. Every hour a glass of water or coffee.

My doctor told me that I was not a subject for a low salt diet, just more drinking should do the trick. Sometimes I drink too much and I start feeling watery, a bit weak and tired.
 
BP is normally high for me, so I have to watch the salt. I've been this way since I was a kid. Not everybody has to watch their salt intake. Most people can eat a lot of salt, provided they drink a lot of water, they can just flush it right out of their body with no bad health risks or problems

But, not for me.

What prompted you to watch your salt intake? High BP?
 
I was told at a gym to go on a low to no salt intake.I need the recommended daily amount of salt.Correct me if i am wrong here but you can get high BP from being overweight.You won't get it if you eat the recommended daily amount of salt.I went from having processed food with high amounts of salt to no salt at all.Your body physiologically cannot survive without all minerals and vitamins fact.
 
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No i didn't, i was going through a bad patch in my life and never entered my mind.
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Low salt diets aren't dangerous. They can be - as can low-anything diets - if applied wrongly and for the wrong reasons. Such as following medical advice given out be a gym.
 
I'm sorry to hear that, but never listen to what gym staff (in the U.K, at least) say about health and fitness, as most are absolutely clueless.

If you want workout advice, go to the general workouts thread in the sports forum of GTP. No bs or broscience there.
 
While gyms shouldn't be giving out advice like that, there is a good reason why you should consult with your GP before changing your diet/starting a new exercise regime.
 
If you have high blood pressure and you start excising, you could cause some bad things to happen.

You dont tell an obese person to run a mile.
You get them to do small exercises first then build up to the mile run.
 
Grayfox
If you have high blood pressure and you start excising, you could cause some bad things to happen.

You dont tell an obese person to run a mile.
You get them to do small exercises first then build up to the mile run.
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This is the reason i am not exercising again.I was told by a best mate of my brother, which makes it kinda difficult.Another thing is i can't taste the salt in my sweat, after a walk which is very worrying.
 
Grayfox
If you have high blood pressure and you start excising, you could cause some bad things to happen.
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Yep. You could 'stroke out' as my doctor described to me. I had to stop lifting weights for quite a while before I could start again, until I got my BP reduced.
 
Yes and no on salt and the gym/health tips. Granted any thing they tell you, I would atleast do research on it before taking it as the golden rule (and that isn't always correct as you might be different).

If you have a high salt diet, things will eventually go down hill as it has some bad health risk involved but salt isn't going to be the problem but limit how much you do have daily. It pretty much goes for anything though as you shouldn't drink soda in excess, or fried foods but salt/sugar both can be very hard to know how much you are actually having.

Best advice here was to talk to your doctor and they can give you the best advice.
 
Diet with low salt intake isn't dangerous and it in some cases helps the moisture in your body to exude effectively losing the weight, yet you should also beware of the amount of intake of flavouring and lipide in the food simultaneously.
 
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A doctor should be able to help you manage your salt intake. You may have to follow a pretty strict diet which would mean just eating natural food that contains natural amounts of salt. Anything processed will have added salt (and in some cases lots of it).

Exercise helps to bring down your blood pressure but if you have high blood pressure it should be relatively light (a fast walk will do). I expect you would need to do that for a few weeks to lose some starting weight. Obviously you'll lose salts through sweating (which you'll do quite a lot if you're overweight) so it's important that you replenish them naturally, which the person at the gym should have told you.

Definitely see a doctor and they should be able to recommend a dietician. It's just about getting the balance right. Then again, if there's an underlying problem you might require medication.

Good luck with it though, I'm sure it's something that you'll get through with a strict diet and moderate exercise. The body is pretty good at repairing itself,
 
Smoke&Slide
Hi folks, speaking as one person who is going through the same thing as maybe you.I am on a low salt diet and it's causing havok with my body.I'd like you to speak up if you are on a low salt diet.Here is a website about the importance of salt for everyday.Make sure the salt is unrefined salt too.

http://www.watercure2.org/salt.htm

Since i have been on this low to no salt diet i have eperienced kidney problems and had gout.Not good and i don't know what else is happening either.I am only 28 years old.
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But how do you know that it's the low salt intake that is the problem? You'd need to put at least 50 people on a low salt intake than they usually do and if the majority of them are having problems then we can know that it is likely that the low salt intake is causing problems.
 
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You were told by a gym to do something, and did it? Didn't you consult your GP before doing so?
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I'm not alone!

I've seen better advice on form come from friends helping friends than Personal Trainers giving paid advice. And they'll all tell you a different diet.

From my experience, low salt diets tend to drop my blood pressure to an unhealthy level. I didn't do it on purpose, it just happened when I moved out from my parents and started cooking my own meals again.
 

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