Hello Dear One!

If you’ve put a dark mark through the option of salt, you might wish to put it back on the table for WAY more than adulterating the taste of your food.

Salt has a relationship with Insulin. 

Insulin has a relationship with which type of fuel you’re burning (sugar or fat), cravings, and hunger.

A newer habit that I’ve been personally employing, and also recommending to my Fat Burners, is to use 1 tsp of salt in water in the morning.

We do this to combat something called, “The Dawn Effect”, where Cortisol rises, and with it blood sugar, and with it insulin…which can create the feeling of hunger.

Salt can also positively affect hangovers, and even how hungry you are the next day!

When we drink more than moderately electrolytes get depleted along with water – as alcohol is a diuretic.

When we deliberately drink (or eat) more salt around said offensive behavior – we feel better AND less hungry as our body won’t have to go hunting to get the minerals it needs.

A TBS in 16oz of water or more might be something to check out if you find yourself insatiable AND eating foods you’d rather not.

And lastly salt can affect one’s blood pressure – and not necessarily in the direction you might think.

I’ve just grazed the tip of the iceberg with relationship to insulin resistance being fostered due to a low salt diet.

Insulin affects blood pressure by affecting the arteries and causing vasodilation – blood pressure lowers, or affecting the kidneys and creating sodium reabsorption – blood pressure rises.

When the body is insulin resistant (easier to gain weight and harder to lose it), it ONLY loops through the kidney side of this process – making blood pressure rise.

The tricky bit in this equation is that there ARE some people that are salt sensitive where more salt WILL increase one’s blood pressure – but that is the exception more than the rule.

But one rule that IS constant – is that a low salt diet will create insulin resistance, which raises blood pressure as well as creates a HOST of negative health issues.

DO MORE RESEARCH ON THIS!!!  

I will be, but if you believe yourself to be salt sensitive it might be worth getting more of a handle on what could be affecting your health picture more fully.

The more I do research on weight loss, aging, muscle mass retention, affects of carbs and sugar on the body, insulin and ANYTHING ELSE – the more I’m alerted to just how beneficial the mode of Fat Burning is for EVERY aspect of our waistline and our health.

Should you desire a boost yourself – get yourself in a Fat Burning mode with either Fat Burning PRO or (the more hand hand variety) Fat Burning Mastery.

To getting you clearer on how the body works, and how to make it work for you.

xox, M