Paul Saladino· MD
I think evolutionarily right now my sense is that we had about a thousand milligrams of sodium maybe 2000 milligrams of sodium per day that makes a lot of sense yeah and that balance is it with potassium
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I think evolutionarily right now my sense is that we had about a thousand milligrams of sodium maybe 2000 milligrams of sodium per day that makes a lot of sense yeah and that balance is it with potassium
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I'm probably getting 4 4 grams of salt per day and I think that's about what our ancestor would have done somewhere in that range and when you do that your sodium is balanced with your potassium it's like 1 2 1
my sense is that we had about a thousand milligrams of sodium maybe 2000 milligrams of sodium per day