Welcome to the Eat to Live podcast. I am here with my amazing father, Dr. Furman.

Hi, I'm Joel Furman, Dr. Furman, here with my amazing daughter, Jenna

Furman. Oh, that's me. Today we are talking about a very hot topic, something I talk to many people

who are converting or interested about health and nutrition, and that is salt, sodium, high blood

pressure, and strokes. Right. It's a good subject. People have to learn about this.

So Dr. Furman, honestly, people get really touchy about salt and sodium because I was doing a lot of research for this episode.

And it seems like it's a really big part of culture and even ancient civilizations, which we hear about a lot.

Right.

Which is fascinating.

So from my research, basically, I learned that people have been adding salt to their meat and

stuff and curating that stuff and adding salt to people's diets.

Humans have been doing that for over 5,000 years.

Wow.

5,000 years.

Which sounds like, here's the disclaimer,

sounds like a very, very long time.

Ancient civilizations, however,

when you look at the entire history of humans on the planet Earth,

we've been around for 5 million years about.

Wow.

Or even 100,000 years, whatever it is.

It's like the 5,000 years is irrelevant compared to the genetic change of the human species.

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