The Surprising Truth About Salt, Inflammation & Longevity: What Most Doctors Get Wrong With Mara Labs
Update: 2025-09-15
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Episode Highlights With Mara Labs
- We're made of salt and have an inner ocean within us
- Our inner “salt sink”, which is a place where salt reserves are stored in our body
- If you under-eat salt, this will start depleting your salt
- Problems that increase when we don’t get enough salt
- How the kidneys come into play
- The myth of too much salt leading to hypertension and high blood pressure
- Only 25% of the population is salt sensitive
- Three classes of people: inverse salt sensitive, salt sensitive, and salt resistant, and how to know which you are
- Every study ever done there is a group of people known as inverse salt sensitive
- Why the current guidelines around salt consumption are not just wrong, but possibly dangerous
- The real story of sodium and longevity - and it's often higher than the average person eats
- How much salt we actually need daily for optimal health (10g!)
- The relationship with insulin and salt and how insulin resistance increases salt sensitivity
- CO2 bicarbonate connection and how baking soda can be helpful
- The not well understood connection between supplements and how they impact salt
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