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Salt or fat, I was having a debate recently with someone about whether one or the other

is more important for heart health.

Your expert opinion as a cardiologist, should we be more concerned with one than another?

So when you think about sodium, sodium is pretty controversial in some respects because

I guess like many things, there's a sweet spot in the middle and there's recent data

out of heart failure literature.

We always use to recommend low salt, low salt, low salt for our heart failure patients,

particularly in the hospital, you know, so that they would retain less fluid and be

less short of breath.

But it turns out it's not like limbo.

You can go to love and you also can go to high.

So there's a sweet spot in the middle.

So like most things, it's kind of nuanced.

Now if you compare salt to fat, I'm assuming we're talking more about saturated fat, the

kinds of fat you would find in a coconut oil or palm oil, kind of junk food, vegan-y,

kind of foods.

Through the Hegg's dead equation, we know that saturated fat can increase LDL cholesterol

in a pretty predictable way.

And LDL cholesterol is necessary for the development of atherosclerosis, the number one killer.

And that's, it seems like it's one of those interesting academic arguments, but practically

at the end of the day, you're going to want to keep your salt intake on the lower side

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