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Good video how salt intake causing high blood pressure is fake news and how biased "science" is laundered into public conciousness - warning that it is full of inane genZ asides (www.youtube.com)
posted 2 years ago by acp_k2win 2 years ago by acp_k2win +25 / -0
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– current_horror 32 points 2 years ago +32 / -0

Dietary science is so fucked that there’s almost no chance it isn’t deliberate.

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– KekistanPM 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0

I read a comment on another thread about how most people have foods in their diet that slowly poison them (processed foods, foods high in sugar, carbs and soy, pesticide-laden foods, etc.)

It sounds like an exaggeration except that I see a lot of evidence for it around me. I see people shaped like balloons who I never see snacking and their lunches aren't that big (I guess they stuff themselves silly at dinnertime?). I see people who are gone for a week or more because they or family members catch a cold.. I see people going home early because they get headaches or even migraines. I know plenty of people on medication cocktails.

Sometimes I wonder if what is in our foods are a considerable component to all this...or maybe half the country got in terrible bicycling accidents as kids and those wounds never fully healed.

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– Grant_us_eyes 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

It was only after starting to work out on a weekly basis that I stopped getting sick in any severe capacity.

While I do cheat a little when it comes to sinus infections(saline spray is an utter godsend), for most infections I can clearly feel my body just 'fighting it off'. A little bit more tired, a little bit weaker, but not serious or noticeable to others.

I only wish I knew that, yes, you really could just 'sweat the sickness out' alot earlier. Would have saved me alot of time.

A sedentary lifestyle has so many knock-on effects it's positively obscene.

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– KekistanPM 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

Someone close to me in their early senior years had nearly the most sedentary lifestyle possible, and then he had a stroke. He came out of it surprisingly alright, yet continued his sedentary lifestyle. Then he had another stroke...and it practically aged him by another 40 years both physically and mentally, and made it impossible for him to live alone anymore. And his family shares in the consequences because they have to care for him now...merely thinking about that fact pisses me off sometimes.

I already had an affinity to nature hikes, long walks, workouts and Nintendo Switch fitness games...but every time I think of him I motivate myself to get out and about and even enjoy myself along the way.

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– realerfunction 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

i'm at the point where i'm not taking anything anyone says about food as true unless they're absolutely jacked.

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– BandageBandolier 11 points 2 years ago +11 / -0

Moderately jacked is probably safer, they're all generally healthy. The absolutely jacked crowd with strong food advice are 50+% roid addicts like liver king

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– FutaCumDiet 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Besides of issues of being on juice, the kinds of food your average body builder eats requires a degree of rigor and discipline the average person can not maintain on a long term basis. Really, most people just need to be told to cut out the fucking potato chips, chocolate bars, sweets and sugary drinks. That and seed oils are like 90% of the issue.

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– Benevolentdictator 12 points 2 years ago +12 / -0

I'm sure they have some pills for the symptoms of low salt intake.

There are pills for salt retention/salt wasting by the kidneys, but they are reserved mostly for autoimmune cases like the Addison's disease that JFK had that destroys layers of the adrenal glands.

Diuretic and high blood pills messing with electrolytes prescriptions would outnumber the Addison's pills at factors of over 1000:1.

The symptoms of low salt intake would mostly be dizziness and fainting spells (and at VERY extreme levels, altered mental status, brain swelling and death).

The brain and kidneys are VERY autistic of keeping blood and body salt-to-water ratios to a homeostatic level. It's almost impossible outside of the very extremes to alter your blood concentration of salt by your own actions because your kidneys are so good at compensating.

The classic case of low dietary salt intake causing problems is little old ladies nicknamed "tea & toast" ladies.

Some grannies are so small and have so little appetite that they don't consume above the maintenance level of sodium. This problem gets compounded because they often continue to drink "free water" sources of liquid that lack sodium (ie. tea, coffee, etc). This added liquid volume over time in an already sodium-deprived ecosystem eventually breaks down the kidneys autistic homeostatic osmolar balance.

The kidneys try to excrete via urine the daily free water they are given without adequate sodium. But there are minimal levels of sodium that must also be excreted to produce urine and rid of the free water. So each dump of urine to rid of excess daily free water exacerbates the depletion of sodium stores slowly over time.

So the depletion of sodium and the constant cycle of trying to dump excess free water volume to try to remain at proper sodium concentration ratios leads to the shrinking of the intravascular blood volume and constant stealing of volume from tissue stores.

This first leads to positional dizziness, leading to blood pressure drops with the shifting of gravity when rising from supine or sitting. If severe enough, the brain will lose blood supply long enough to cause fainting and falls.

In really severe cases at end stages, the excess free water will cause swelling in the brain due to osmotic forces (more sodium in brain cells then in the interstitial tissues, hence free water will attempt to enter brain cells to achieve desired concentrations).

The cranium is a fixed container, so eventually increased cell volume and increased intercranial pressure can lead to the brainstem "coning" through the foramen magnum hole at the base of the skull, leading to instant death.

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– Chillin_in_PNW 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

so eventually increased cell volume and increased intercranial pressure can lead to the brainstem "coning" through the foramen magnum hole at the base of the skull, leading to instant death

Add that to the list of 'ways I would rather not die'....

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Himalayan pink salt also is popular with the health nuts in my life

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

bruh, healthy is healthy.

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

I suppose the part about coming from a foreign country notable, given the different standards for liability across Nations. that said, companies in the United States lie about the ingredients of their shit all the time, just look at olive oil. it's not an issue exclusive to "brown people"

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– acp_k2win [S] 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0

This is one you can share with normie or even lib friends/associates, doubly so because the presenter is brown.

It methodically breaks down how a "scientific consensus" isn't necessarily the whole picture and can be slanted if not outright fraudulent. Save it in your toolbox to use as a possible wedge with otherwise reasonable people who "trust the science."

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– current_horror 21 points 2 years ago +21 / -0

I like your optimism, but my experience has been that literally nothing works with most of these people. They would rather eliminate whatever relationship they have with you than question themselves for even a moment.

In the specific case of “the science”, these people universally decried - as recently as four years ago, that both the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries were corrupt, heartless, criminal, harmful, and evil. Fast forward to 2020, and those same people trusted every word from these same institutions - implicitly - just to “own the racists”. The same corporations that routinely jack up prices on lifesaving medicine are apparently also totally benevolent with regard to their own highly experimental (and profitable) injections. This is idealogical possession to the point of retardation.

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– ParadigmShift2070 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

sorry didn't work for me i see black pfp, i don't click

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– tappydans 10 points 2 years ago +10 / -0

I eat salt like it’s going out of style and my blood pressure and sodium are routinely low.

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– realerfunction 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

tl;dr a schizo with bad science was taken at face value by the government.

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– FutaCumDiet 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?" - Blight

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– KekistanPM 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

Whew, good thing I avoid salty snacks! (Takes another donut and washes it down with soda)

/s

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– ParadigmShift2070 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

diet soda

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

this reminds me a lot of the gluten-free craze. while some individuals do strictly benefit from cutting gluten, the majority of people who went on this diet benefited not because they were no longer eating gluten, but rather gluten-free products tended to be less processed.

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– Smith1980 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Thanks. Subscribed to channel

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– BetterNameUnfound 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Eat 36 raw eggs a day.

Raw. Eggs.

Vince Gironda did.

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– deleted 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

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