How to keep the body from excess salt?
Salt is an essential mineral for normal metabolism in the human body. Salt helps balance the body’s water weight, and balances the amount of alkaline. According to the Mayo clinic, a moderate amount of salt will help keep the body healthy, full of energy, a clear and sharp brain and at the same time help prevent dangerous diseases for human health.
Salt is present in natural foods such as animal meat, sea fish and processed foods such as canned goods, milk, cheese, dried meat, dried fish, etc. Usually, we find that food become more delicious when we add a little salt into .
When the body lacks of salt, the amount of sodium in the blood decreases. This will lead to the swelling in the hands and feet due to free water loss. Lack of salt causes electrolyte deficiency, metabolic disorders, decreased blood volume can lead to generalized edema, impaired muscle function causing muscle fatigue, cramps, crawling, hypotension. But when the body has too much salt, it can cause many different diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney disease, joint pains …
Learning how to keep the salt balance in the body is absolutely necessary. This is equivalent to keeping the body healthy and avoiding possible diseases. As for the lack of salt in the body, supplementation is relatively simple. However, most of us often experience salt excess rather than salt deficiency. When the body gets excess salt, the detection often takes place late. Although the excess salt in our body is usually eliminated through urine, sweat and tears. But if we absorb a larger amount of salt than the body can eliminate, this amount of salt will remain in the body and cause many different diseases.
Hypertension
The body needs to retain more water to dissolve the excess salt. This leads to an increase in blood volume and causes a rise in blood pressure
Kidney damage
The kidneys have to work harder to get rid of the excess salt. Plus, water retention causes the blood vessels in the kidneys to weaken. Consuming too much salt for a long time can lead to kidney failure
Slows down brain activity
Many scientific studies have shown that consuming too much salt will affect the brain’s information processing, causing cognitive impairment.
Causes headaches
Usually, headaches are caused by high blood pressure. If you don’t have high blood pressure and have a headache, you might think you’re consuming more salt than you need in your daily diet.
Causes dry mouth
Eating salty makes the body feel the concentration of salt. The body’s imbalance causes dry mouth, which leads to you having to drink more water
Stress on the digestive system
Eating salty foods makes it difficult for the digestive system to process food. It can cause hemorrhoid’s and constipation.
Effects on the cardiovascular system
Too much salt can cause ventricular hypertrophy and cardiomegaly
Osteoporosis
Salt prevents calcium absorption, which leads to osteoporosis and bone related problems
Causes joint swelling
The accumulation of salt in the joints causes swelling of the knee joints, fingers and toes joints, making difficulty to walk, move and work.
How to balance excess salt?
According to the American Heart Association, an adult should consume no more than 1,500 mg of salt a day. Realistically, knowing the exact amount of salt is not an easy task because salt is present in all the food we consume on a daily basis.
To remove excess salt, exercise and sweat are effective solutions to help the body stays healthy.
However, for those who do not have much time for exercise, especially for those who work in an air-conditioned environment, the lack of regular sweating can lead to potential long-term health problems
If you have enough time and economic conditions. Sauna is the best solution for relaxing and removing the excess salt from the body. Or, you can apply a method that is less expensive at your home with a sauna tent. Sauna tent will help you sweat in a natural way. In case you have a cold, the sauna tent can support you quickly get rid the bad feeling and shorter the recovery time
In short, it is important to keep the balance of salt in the body. By doing so, a lot of diseases can be avoided in a simple way.
Source: Mayo clinic
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