> I would also like to add, that although the Paleo pros and cons of salt
> consumption have been discussed on this list ad nauseum (check the
Archives),
> anyone with compromised adrenal function knows that it is all too easy to
become
> dangerously ill if one's sodium level falls too low. People are often
admonished
> to make sure to get enough potassium, but this can be dangerous advice for
an
> Addisonian. Someone with Addison's Disease would likely not have survived
in
> Paleolithic times, but today we do survive, so one must be careful not to
get
> caught up in the thinking that a strict Paleo diet by itself will cure any
> condition.
>
i wrote before here posts about salt . It still don't know what to think .
i have the intuition that overdose of salt ( the refined one ) have a lot to
do with collapse of the adrenal ( my mother loved to eat very salty and was
cooking for us that way , she had probably adrenal insufficiency at times)
I have gone for 3 months at a time without any salt intake except some
seaweeds.and i am also going thru phases of high salt intake ( but unrefined
ones like celtic sea salt ).too much salt like too much of everything create
insufficiency in the body by reaction . in the instive eating frame wotrk it
was easy to know how much salt to eat because evrything was eaten by itself
and in that context it is impossible to eat too much salt.

one thing i know is to to avoid refined salt ( the common kind that is
sodium chloride ) it is hard to avoid when eating processed foods as it is
everywhere .
jean-claude