At what salt intake threshold does the speaker say physiological effects begin?

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20 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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Dr. James DiNicolantonio explains how eating less than 1.33 teaspoons of salt daily triggers your kidneys to raise insulin levels and reduce blood volume, which impairs glucose delivery to muscles and spikes both blood sugar and insulin. This is your body defending against salt deficiency.

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Consuming less than about one and a third teaspoons of salt.

Tell us about the fascinating connection between salt and insulin resistance.
Basically, there's a few things that happen when you start consuming less than about one and a third teaspoons of salt. And what ends up happening is insulin levels will start increasing as a way to for the kidneys to hold onto and preserve salt. So it's like a defense mechanism. Your body says, wait, it'll start increasing insulin to start holding onto that salt. And also the decrease in blood volume will decrease blood glucose and insulin delivery to the muscle. And so that will raise insulin and blood glucose as well. If you're not consuming enough salt, even.
Talking about salt for a long time, but I still feel like there's this stigma around having too much salt.