How to use sodium potassium twist to lower blood pressure
If you’ve got salt sensitive hypertension you need to WORK the body’s potassium excretion system to your benefit,…
Eat salt, your tongue and your heart, will like it
A low salt diet causes insulin resistance in everyone. Granted in salt sensitive’s, it lowers blood pressure, but…
Why salt restriction is not the perfect fix for high blood pressure
Like cholesterol, health gurus have picked on sodium for years, but from a biological perspective, sodium is an…
The “safe” way to eat salty foods
A bowl of salty soup, will send your blood pressure up. If you’re salt sensitive, this is a…
Aldosterone in insulin resistance
We look at aldosterone, a hormone associated with high blood pressure, in this week's episode of the UPS…
Mother nature can handle salt – most of the time
Sodium does cause the blood pressure to rise but mother nature is quite capable of “handling” this rise…
What does your skin and pickled cucumbers, have in common ?
Skin cells, work closely with the immune cells to keep the border closed. The same techniques humans use,…
Chips ahoy – the science of dodging run away chip consumption
You planned to eat a few chips from the packet but you end up eating the whole packet…
Bacteria are brushing away salt crystals to restore old walls
A bacteria, which is able to eat salt for breakfast, is restoring the walls of the Church of…
Salt stokes the fires of the belly
H.pylori lives peacefully in the gut but expose it to salt and it turns into a “psychotic” burner…