● The American Heart Association (AHA) recommended daily dietary sodium intake is 1500 mg. The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) is 2300 mg. IMO, the minimum daily amount of dietary sodium that you need to poison your body is between 1500 mg and 2300 mg.
It doesn’t matter if you eat unrefined salt – such as Celtic sea salt. But, for the record, Celtic sea salt is a lot better than any refined salt. That said, too much salt is still never good. Try not to confuse salt with sodium. Salt is made up of 40 percent sodium and 60 percent chloride.
Studies indicate the human body only requires about 500 mg of dietary sodium daily to function properly. IMO, eating between 700 and 1200mg of sodium daily is adequate, with intakes of sodium limited to around 300mg per meal. In the case of a minimally processed food, such as a snack that contains multiple servings per package. Try and limit the total number of servings you eat to around 300mg of sodium.
Minimally processed food is sodium-free or low sodium. If the need arises, you can put 1/8 teaspoon (0.63ml) of salt (which contains a little less than 300mg of sodium) in the palm of your hand and then sprinkle on the food in a few pinches. A high sodium diet can trigger the immune system to initiate an inflammatory response even when there is actually no damage or infection present. Chronic inflammation will eventually develop if a high sodium diet remains constant.
Bacteria is sensitive to dietary sodium because it can cause dysbiosis. The human microbiome is home to trillions of microorganisms that live on and inside our bodies. Our microbiome is composed of both good and bad bacteria that create a healthy balance in the body.
A disrupted oral microbiome caused by a high sodium diet usually leads to cavities and gum disease. Sodium can disrupt your intestinal microbiome and cause intestinal permeability (aka a leaky gut). This may lead, not only to chronic intestinal inflammation, but systemic as well.
The gut microbiome also helps to regulate your blood pressure. Therefore, a disrupted microbiome resulting from a high sodium diet may have a negative effect on your blood pressure. You see, gut bacteria produce certain chemicals that can normalize and or keep blood pressure normal. For more on dietary sodium.
Poison in the Guise of Sugar
Fructose is fruit sugar and is also part of the following: honey (21-43% fructose), maple syrup (50% fructose), agave syrup (70-90% fructose), white and brown table sugar (50% fructose), high-fructose corn syrup (55% fructose) and invert sugar syrup (50% fructose). Invert sugar syrup is an added ingredient in almost all syrups. Yet, for some strange reason, it is most often not listed as an ingredient.
Fructose is useless to the body and the cause of chronic and acute inflammation. It’s a poison in the guise of a simple sugar. The major sources of fructose in our daily diet are sugar-sweetened beverages, fruits, UPFs and QSR foods.
You can indulge in dried or fresh fruits that are part of the main course at events like birthdays, weddings, holidays etc… – avoid between events. Do not eat dried or fresh fruits separately as a snack anytime.
To my knowledge, there are two food sources of sugar that are fructose-free. They are corn sugar and brown rice syrup, both easily accessible online. All vegetables contain fructose, but in comparison to fruits the amount is minimal, so vegetables are okay anytime.
Fructose can only be broken down by your liver cells. The breakdown of fructose stimulates the overproduction of purines by the liver cells. A purine is a critical base molecule of a nucleotide and nucleotides are the essential building blocks of DNA and RNA, which play a crucial role in forming our genetic code. Okay.
Fructose in combination with eating high purine foods both contribute to high levels of uric acid in your blood. You might want to limit your intake of high purine foods (red meat, fish, poultry) to 3.5 ounces (100g) daily.