Help Your Body Heal Ep. 2 - Salt And Sweat | Biological Programming For A Niche We No Longer Live In

Disclaimer: This information is to the best of my knowledge true, but I am human and live in a society with a culture and dogma and indoctrination. There are many examples throughout history of doctors believing what they did was helpful, but it wasn’t. And the opposite has happened where a doctor found a truth and nobody believed him/her until years after that doctor died. More importantly, everyone is different and everyone’s situation is different, whether that be their diet, genes, living situation, local environment, weather, profession, and hobbies. So what works for one person may not work for another. This health information is available for you to evaluate and choose if and how you want to apply it for your own body. This video and the comments do not represent a doctor patient relationship since I am not able to fully know your history, physical examination, lab results, and imaging. This information is provided for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute providing medical advice or professional services. Most importantly, listen to your body. It tells you what it needs and lets you know how things are going.

This topic may be actually more important than the first episode. The whole topic of plants vs meat might actually be secondary to this topic of salt balance in the body. Here, I discuss the biological adaptations humans developed in their niche as hunter-gatherers and how that biological programming is still at work today even though we live in a modern agricultural civilization. Because our bodies still run on the biological programming of hunter-gatherers, there a few things we can do to help our bodies heal and function well in the civilization we live in today.

**Please check out episode 3 for a full whole picture framework on sodium balance and flow through the body. In reading the comments, I realized that I have to add one thing and correct another. First, I forgot to say that the main way sodium is excreted from the body is by the kidneys making urine and we pee out the salt. That's been known for a very long time. The storage of salt in the insoluble form in the skin and muscle is new information over the past ten years or so and that is the focus of this talk. Somewhere in this talk, I said that salt is stored in the fat. That was incorrect. Salt is stored in the skin and muscle and other areas with glycosaminoglycans. High salt concentrations lead to inflammation that stimulates fat growth in areas like the visceral fat and in between the muscle fibers, but the salt is not stored in that new fat. Here is the published paper regarding the relationship of sodium to intermuscular fat accumulation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
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Timestamps
00:00 Overview
04:32 What is sodium and where is it found in nature
07:18 What is so valuable about sodium for our body
11:23 What niche did humans develop in
16:55 Human anatomy made for endurance running and sweating
25:45 How does the body store salt
33:12 What happens when we eat too much salt
38:20 How much sodium do hunter-gatherers eat daily
42:45 How much sodium is in common foods today
53:29 What about eating meat or a carnivore diet
57:43 What are the recommended salt intake levels? It is a balance with sweating!
1:01:54 Biological hacks to excrete more salt
1:05:28 Not getting enough sodium can be deadly! Hyponatremia
1:10:52 A spine surgeon's experience of patient's skin fat muscle and spine inflammation
1:18:20 How to help your body heal in today's modern agricultural civilization

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