Thank you again, Jean-Claude, for this important additional information about
salt. It is all to easy to get a huge excess of salt (sugar, bad fats, etc.)
when processed foods are consumed. Also, as you so wisely point out, refined
salt is not the same thing as natural sea salt. Personally, I prefer
French/Atlantic or Celtic sea salt; it tastes very different to me than the salt that
"pours when it rains". Since I rarely eat processed foods anymore, I wasn't even
thinking about anything other than using sea salt and salting my meats and
vegetables to taste. I don't cook with salt either; rather, I salt lightly to
taste when I eat my food.

If your mother ate heavily salted foods, perhaps she did have some degree of
adrenal fatigue, and was "self-medicating."

Maddy Mason,
Hudson Valley, NY

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Maddy wrote:
> 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.
>
Jean-Claude wrote:

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