Doctors still advise against consumption of "too much", but Asian cultures are very sodium rich. Noodles tend to have a lot of salt added, either in broth, fermentation or otherwise. Fish is often salted too.
Yet Asians are some of the longest living humans. Why is that, if it were as simple as salt consumption causing high blood pressure or heart problems?
I believe it is just bad science / a correlation or causation problem.
People eat processed foods.
Processed foods are high in salt.
Processed food will cause chronic illness.
Salt is blamed.
Or its that they consume so many electrolytes in asia their bodies are good at maintaining a balance for things like the sodium potassium pump for example. Very bad imbalances in sodium/potassium can cause this pump and therefore muscles to fail, like the heart. But that shouldn't happen very often.
Something similar happens with asians in that they consume much more iodine than the US but their thyroids arent very effected by it either.
Was going to add this. Salt is good for you, and does not cause heart attacks.
Salt is a really interesting subject.
Doctors still advise against consumption of "too much", but Asian cultures are very sodium rich. Noodles tend to have a lot of salt added, either in broth, fermentation or otherwise. Fish is often salted too.
Yet Asians are some of the longest living humans. Why is that, if it were as simple as salt consumption causing high blood pressure or heart problems?
I believe it is just bad science / a correlation or causation problem.
People eat processed foods. Processed foods are high in salt. Processed food will cause chronic illness. Salt is blamed.
Or its that they consume so many electrolytes in asia their bodies are good at maintaining a balance for things like the sodium potassium pump for example. Very bad imbalances in sodium/potassium can cause this pump and therefore muscles to fail, like the heart. But that shouldn't happen very often.
Something similar happens with asians in that they consume much more iodine than the US but their thyroids arent very effected by it either.