#375: Salt, Sodium & Health
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Danny and Alan discuss the current evidence base related to sodium intake and health, most notably cardiovascular disease. The episode walks through understanding diet-disease relationships, the epidemiology of sodium and health outcomes, the reasons for conflicting conlusions, sodium measurements in research, intervention trials, and more. Importantly, the claim that the sodium-CVD risk relationship exhibits a "J-shaped curve" (i.e. risk is low at moderate intakes and higher at both low and high intakes) is dissected, with recommendations given on how to reconcile all the available evidence.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 375 of Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am Danny Lennon. I'm here with Alan Flanagan. Alan, how are you, |
| 0:24.1 | my man? I'm good. I've been thinking about how my perception of time has been distorted by lockdown. |
| 0:30.2 | Like when life is kind of normal, I feel like I do, I have the same amount of like work to do, but I also find time to do loads of other stuff. |
| 0:42.6 | And then I get into lockdown and it's as if now I've nothing but time, but I feel like, I feel like I've less time to actually do the work that I usually get done in less time. It's just, it's that, |
| 0:56.1 | maybe it's that site, what do they call it, the Parkinson effect in psychology? Is that, you know, |
| 1:00.9 | work expands to fill the time you have available? It's funny. I was having a kind of similar |
| 1:05.0 | conversation with someone the other day that because they have kind of a busy enough schedule, |
| 1:09.7 | even now, they're finding that they've |
| 1:11.9 | taken on some extra study recently. |
| 1:15.0 | And they're finding because it has to be crammed into a certain time period at the weekend, |
| 1:19.1 | that they're being really productive with it. |
| 1:21.0 | Whereas I was kind of commenting that a lot of people have had the opposite through these |
| 1:24.5 | lockdowns of this initial motivation motivation I'm going to take on |
| 1:27.6 | and learn this or we're going to pick up this new hobby, etc. And then after a while, because you |
| 1:33.3 | have so much time, you just end up like not really doing anything because there's no pressure |
| 1:37.8 | on it. That's it. And even things that I like tend to do just out, you know, for my kind of day-to-day enjoyment. |
| 1:46.5 | Like I'm usually, I find myself actually reading less during lockdown or going through phases |
| 1:53.4 | where I'm kind of reading everything and then it's as if I get just bored of reading and |
| 1:58.4 | just stop. |
| 1:59.8 | So I kind of find I'm, I'm, even things that I get huge enjoyment out of in day-to-day |
| 2:06.3 | life, because it's all I have right now. |
| 2:09.8 | Even, even that has a shelf life. |
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