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Huberman Lab
In two episodes, Andrew Huberman highlighted the book as an interesting read that challenges conventional views on salt. He noted that the authors presented data showing that modestly increasing salt while eating unprocessed foods can cut sugar cravings and that a daily intake of 8–12 g of salt may improve health, citing historical errors in salt research. The discussion was positive, presenting the title as a valuable source for rethinking salt recommendations.
Episode: Using Salt to Optimize Mental & Physical Performan...
The Salt Fix is a book that discusses the history of salt in society, emphasizing the errors made in interpreting its role in various diseases. It suggests that increasing salt intake can actually improve health outcomes, striking a balance between common knowledge and what ought to be known about salt.
The Salt Fix is an interesting read because it points to first of all the history of salt in society and as it relates to health it actually emphasizes some of the major missteps maybe even pretty drastic errors that have been made in terms of trying to interpret the role that salt has in various diseases and emphasizes some of the ways in which perhaps increasing salt can actually improve health outcomes and I think it strikes a pretty nice balance between what's commonly known about salt and what I believe ought to be known about salt or at least taking into consideration.
The recommendation he made was anywhere from 8 to 12 grams of salt a day which corresponds to 3.2 to 4.8 grams of sodium
The salt fix also describes in quite beautiful detail the relationship between salt intake potassium intake and the relationship to the sugar consumption system
The salt fix describes the rationale behind those recommendations
Episode: Essentials: Using Salt to Optimize Mental & Physic...
He noted that the book reviewed data showing that increasing salt intake while eating mostly unprocessed foods can dramatically reduce sugar cravings.
and indeed many people find, and it's reviewed a bit and some of the data are reviewed in the book, The Salt Fix, that when people increase their salt intake in a backdrop of relatively unprocessed foods, that sugar cravings can indeed be vastly reduced.