How Much Salt Is Too Much Salt? | Dr. Jim Loomis Live Q&A

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How much salt should you be eating? Most of us are eating way more than we should, and the sodium-rich diet can spell disaster for your health.

Dr. Jim Loomis, medical director of The Barnard Medical Center, joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE to shake out the facts about salt!

Questions Answered:

- How much salt do you need?

- Does all salt raise blood pressure?

- What’s the difference between sea salt and regular salt?

- What foods have the most salt?

- What foods have the least salt?

- What are best salt substitutes?

- Do athletes need more sodium?

- And more!

Dr. Loomis will be speaking at the 2023 International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine.

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0:00.0	Coming up on the exam room.
0:03.5	People have this perception and maybe most of this is marketing that pink sea salt or
0:08.0	Himalayan salt is healthier than table salt or then we've got black salt.
0:12.9	We've got salt from here, salt from there, salt from all over the world.
0:16.2	Are there any nutritional differences?
0:18.4	There are some subtle nutritional differences that mainly have to do with what other minerals
0:22.3	are in there.
0:23.3	So, you know, if you're making sea salt off the coast of France versus sea salt in England
0:28.8	versus pink Himalayan salt from Northern India or black salt, which is a volcanic salt.
0:34.5	So, there are some subtle taste differences and some subtle differences in minerals that
0:39.9	are available, but that's what drives the taste.
0:42.4	But not as far as I know, any solid research to show that one salt, one type of salt is
0:47.8	healthier or less healthful or more healthy than the other.
0:51.8	It is really just again, the depth of the detriment from salt comes from sodium.
0:56.9	And so, it doesn't matter what type of salt that sodium is coming from.
1:08.8	Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
1:12.8	Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll.
1:15.8	Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us, Coast to Coast in the US and
1:20.5	in more than 150 countries.
1:23.3	Hi to everyone listening in San Jose, California, carried North Carolina and Duwala, Cameroon.
1:31.0	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
1:35.8	This is episode 63 of season 6, number 459 overall.
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