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Age Better with Liz Earle

Should I be eating more salt or less?

Age Better with Liz Earle

Liz Earle

Liz Earle, Hormones, Arts, Health & Fitness, Education, Supplements, Healthy Ageing, Fashion & Beauty, Health, Skincare, Wellbeing, Gut Health, Self-improvement, Fitness, Menopause, Midlife, Exercise, Better Second Half, Beauty, Women's Health

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It's one of the most confusing nutrition debates – should you be eating more salt or less? The answer might surprise you, because it depends on your lifestyle. If you're cooking from scratch or you're very active the advice is very different than if ultra-processed foods are part of your diet. Liz explains why salt isn't the enemy, the surprising signs that reveal whether you're getting too much or too little, and why drinking plenty of water might not be hydrating you properly at all.


In this episode:

  • How to know if you need to increase or reduce your sodium intake
  • Are at-home teeth whitening kits safe and do they actually work?
  • Tips for breast tenderness on HRT
  • Can you cook with extra virgin olive oil or is it just for drizzling?
  • What lifestyle and non-surgical options exist for managing lipedema?


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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to Age Better with me, Lesal. Now, I hand the show over to you on a Monday. You ask the questions and I answer with some science-backed research to hopefully inspire you to live better and to age well. Pam emailed me over the weekend with a great tip actually that I'd like to share

0:22.5

with you and she writes, I follow an American menopause doctor on Instagram who recommended

0:28.4

drinking a small glass of tart cherry juice before bed. Apparently the melatonin in the cherry juice

0:35.4

aids sleep and is ideal for menopausal women like me.

0:40.2

Well, not only has it helped my sleep, but it also surprisingly seems to stop my urge to pee at night.

0:47.7

Now, not every night is perfect, but I've seen such an improvement in my sleep overall,

0:52.6

but I thought I must let you know so that you could share

0:55.0

this with other women who are struggling to sleep. F-YI, I drink the Biona organic tart cherry juice.

1:03.1

Oh, Pam, love that. Love these hints and tips. So yeah, if you've got more like that,

1:07.0

please keep them coming. And do you know, tart cherry juice is one of the few foods that

1:13.3

has actually been studied for sleep. Now, as you say, it naturally contains melatonin and also

1:18.9

compounds that support circadian rhythm, which can be really helpful during menopause when

1:23.8

our melatonin levels often decline. And interestingly, I think your observation about fewer

1:29.5

nighttime bathroom trips, that makes sense. Better, deeper sleep can calm our bladder signaling at night,

1:37.4

which is often disrupted in midlife. Now, it's not going to work for everyone, and portion

1:41.8

size matters because of natural sugars. So a small glass here is key. And obviously, if you're drinking lots of liquid before going to work for everyone and portion size matters because of natural sugars. So a small

1:45.2

glass here is key. And obviously if you're drinking lots of liquid before going to bed, then that's

1:49.0

going to be an issue too. But I think, you know, as a gentle food-based option, great to try it

1:54.9

if sleep has become fragile. So why not? And thank you for passing it on. I actually wrote about cherry juice in my book,

2:02.6

about a second half. And of course, you can find Montmorency Cherry as an extract in some of the

2:09.7

sleep supplements, specifically because they help with the melatonin production. So there you go.

2:17.1

Well, if you have a question or indeed a

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