Salt and the Microbiome: How Sodium Affects Gut Health | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
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Summary
While we often link excess salt intake to heart disease and high blood pressure, the damage to the gut and microbiome is not to be overlooked.
Join Chuck Carroll and the master of gut health, Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, MD, MSCI, for a deep dive into the impact of sodium on your microbiome.
Tune in to discover:
- How excessive salt intake can disrupt your gut bacteria and cause a host of health issues.
- The effects of high-sodium diets on gut bacteria.
- The role of potassium-rich foods in balancing sodium levels.
- Tips to help you navigate the sodium minefield in everyday foods.
- How to reduce salt without sacrificing flavor.
- Dr. B’s exciting announcement about his supplement company, 38Tera.
Don't miss this enlightening conversation that could change the way you think about salt and your health!
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.4 | Most of us, Dr B, are eating one and a half times the amount of salt that we need every single day. |
| 0:11.2 | Like we are salt junkies. So what happens to the |
| 0:15.4 | microbiome when we keep dropping salt bomb after salt bomb down our |
| 0:21.4 | gullets? Okay when you expose microbes to salt you destroy |
| 0:25.4 | lactobacilis and lactobacilis are bacteria that have been known to produce |
| 0:31.5 | short chain fatty acids. Short chain fatty |
| 0:34.0 | acids are the most anti-inflammatory compound that I've ever come across in my |
| 0:38.9 | more than 20 years of study in medicine. So what I'm saying is that excessive salt intake actually disturbs the microbiome |
| 0:46.6 | to reduce your short-chain fatty acid production. |
| 0:50.0 | We think, we think that the connection between salt and blood pressure is not just that salt |
| 0:57.6 | raises the salt level in your blood and therefore your blood pressure goes up. |
| 1:06.0 | We think that the reason why salt raises a person's blood pressure is by disturbing the microbiome. Because short-chain |
| 1:11.4 | fatty acids have been clearly shown when we produce more short-chain fatty acids have been clearly shown when we produce more |
| 1:14.0 | short-chain fatty acids we lower our blood pressure. |
| 1:18.6 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:27.0 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs, coast to coast and around the world. |
| 1:33.3 | High to the exam roomies listening in Charleston, South Carolina, |
| 1:37.2 | Buckeye, Arizona, and Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 1:41.0 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:46.1 | This is episode 50 of season 7, number 549 overall. |
| 1:52.4 | Salt and your gut. |
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