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🗓️ 6 November 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Conventional health literature often focuses on a supposed connection between sodium intake and blood pressure. But sodium plays an important role in our health and even regulation of other electrolytes. Join me and my guest Robb Wolf as we discuss recent research, why sodium may be unfairly villainized, and guidelines on salt intake to shoot for. https://drruscio.com/?p=41555
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0:37.1 | Now, let's head to the show. |
0:40.9 | Hi, everyone. |
0:41.9 | Welcome back to Dr. Rucho Radio. |
0:45.0 | We are honored to have not only the good looking, but also the devilishly intelligent |
0:50.5 | Rob Wolf here to talk about salt. |
0:52.9 | And I'm super excited to have this conversation, Rob, |
0:55.4 | because someone asked me the other day, well, isn't salt bad for you? And I said, no, but then I |
1:00.3 | realized, you know, I don't feel like I'm super up to date on this argument. I have kind of the bag |
1:05.9 | of, you know, the few typical talking points, but I haven't actually gone into the literature |
1:10.7 | and dug around |
1:12.6 | to really substantiate the case. And so I thought of, you know, who could I bring on to do this? |
1:20.0 | And I know you've been really doing a lot with the ketogenic diet. You've also released, formulated, |
1:25.6 | and released your own product. And I know as part of doing that, |
1:28.4 | you really dug into the evidence. So let's update everyone on why salt is important because there are |
1:36.0 | still some people who think that salt is bad for you is going to cause high blood pressure or |
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