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Saturday, January 16, 2021
This'll shake you... too LITTLE salt can be bad for us
Health chiefs constantly tell us to slash our salt intake, but new research suggests that having too little also carries health risks.
Doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in London found that too little salt in the body, over a long period of time, weakens the immune system, increasing the risk of infections.
Patients with Gitelman syndrome and Bartter syndrome, which cause an excessive loss of salt through the kidneys, were more likely than others to suffer from recurrent fungal and urinary infections.
The authors of the study, published in the medical journal Nature Communications, explain that a lack of salt halts the production of a type of white blood cell called interleukin 17, which detects and destroys infections.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8750667/HEALTH-NOTES-Thisll-shake-LITTLE-salt-bad-us.html
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