Limiting salt consumption for infants?
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"In the fetus and the newborn baby, sodium promotes growth. . Progesterone, sodium and glucose are often limiting factors in the growth of the babys brain; when they are deficient, cells die instead of growing." - RP
Is there anything to the conventional wisdom that babies under 1 should have little to no salt in their diet? Ray’s quote seems to contradict this commonly held belief. Personally I feed my 9th month old salty things all the time (butter, cottage cheese, ricotta, soups) and she seems to love it. Should the sodium intake be limited to a certain amount or can salt be eaten liberally at that age?
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I doubt it. Once they're onto solid foods I'd say it's safe. Obviously don't go overboard.
They also say this about adults. "Limit salt intake to avoid heart attack". "Low salt diet is healthier". It's the opposite. Low salt intake has higher deaths in cvd patients. Higher salt intake has lower deaths. Our heart and muscles need salt to function. I would say a large portion of people eat way too little salt, and would be healthier if they increased their intake.
Almost everything is opposite world with mainstream institutions. They do not want us to be healthy.
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929693X23001562
This abstract seems to corroborate what Ray was saying that inadequate salt intake is more of a concern.
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@Hearthfire exactly, my opinion as well. Ray always talked about how the low salt diets people are told to eat are actually damaging them.
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Without ample salt, aldosterone has minimal effects on blood pressure or excretion of potassium and magnesium. In fact, some of the highest levels of aldosterone are found in the blood of primitive people who eat very little salt, yet their pressures and potassiums are normal and their cardiovascular structures pristine. By contrast, salt supplements can expose pressor, kaluretic, and pathologic effects of small amounts of mineralocorticoids in animals and, presumably, in humans. This synergy supports the hypothesis that apparently normal levels of aldosterone can be responsible for hypertension and related diseases when those levels are “inappropriately high” for the quantity of salt ingested. High‐salt intake by itself is epidemiologically associated with cardiovascular deterioration
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@Rayoshi-Pufamoto said in Limiting salt consumption for infants?:
Should the sodium intake be limited to a certain amount or can salt be eaten liberally at that age?
Whenever salt is "mixed" with fat, the taste buds are saturated. This encourages the brain to ask for more because the sensors are out of order.
=> Enough potassium should still be brought. If not sufficient from vegetables and fruit (mainly), I'd add some potassium bicarbonate (not sodium bicarbonate), in a shake.
The dose for an adult is 1.2 g potassium bicarbonate. So, I'd say 1/3 under 6 years old. 1 hour before or 2 hours after digestion. Best not to eat meat just after the take (pH is not optimal then). Not on a continuous way (impact on TH1><TH2 and M1 >< M2). So, with days off, let's say after 8-10 days take.
