The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

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Product Description What if everything you know about salt is wrong? A leading cardiovascular research scientist explains how this vital crystal got a negative reputation, and shows how to lower blood pressure and experience weight loss using salt. The Salt Fix is essential reading for everyone on the keto diet!   We’ve all heard the recommendation: eat no more than a teaspoon of salt a day for a healthy heart. Health-conscious Americans have hewn to the conventional wisdom that your salt shaker can put you on the fast track to a heart attack, and have suffered through bland but “heart-healthy” dinners as a result.    What if the low-salt dogma is wrong?    Dr. James DiNicolantonio has reviewed more than five hundred publications to unravel the impact of salt on blood pressure and heart disease. He’s reached a startling conclusion: The vast majority of us don’t need to watch our salt intake. In fact, for most of us, more salt would be advantageous to our nutrition—especially for those of us on the keto diet, as keto depletes this important mineral from our bodies.  The Salt Fix tells the remarkable story of how salt became unfairly demonized—a never-before-told drama of competing egos and interests—and took the fall for another white crystal: sugar.   According to  The Salt Fix, too little salt can: • Make you crave sugar and refined carbs  • Send the body into semistarvation mode  • Lead to weight gain, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and increased blood pressure and heart rate   But eating the salt you desire can improve everything, from your sleep, energy, and mental focus to your fitness, fertility, and sexual performance. It can even stave off common chronic illnesses, including heart disease.   The Salt Fix shows the best ways to add salt back into your diet, offering his transformative five-step program for recalibrating your salt thermostat to achieve your unique, ideal salt intake. Science has moved on from the low-salt dogma, and so should you—your life may depend on it. Review “The truth about what salt is really doing to your body.” —The Telegraph “James DiNicolantonio shakes up a nutritional hornet’s nest with The Salt Fix. . . . [A] smart and interesting account of [the ferocious scientific debate].” —Michael Bader, author of More than Bread and Butter, for Alternet “DiNicolantonio’s premise completely overturns the conventional wisdom about salt consumption.” —Take Care Broadcast “Thought-provoking, evidenced-based information for anyone interested in improving their health.” —Library Journal “Why we should embrace the salt shaker, not shun it.” —Canadian National Post “Dr. DiNicolantonio takes us away from hype and hyperbole to a place of rationality as it relates to salt. This extensively researched text lets us finally erase the guilt all of us felt when catering to our desire for this important mineral.” —David Perlmutter, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain and The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan “Dr. James DiNicolantonio shatters the age-old myth that salt is a cause of heart disease. He also makes excellent recommendations for a heart-healthy diet that your tastebuds will really enjoy! If you want to learn how to make food taste great again, discover tips to improve your heart health, and be enlightened about the truth about salt, you’ve got to check out this book!” —Dr. Josh Axe, author of Eat Dirt, founder of DrAxe online “For decades, doctors and mainstream medicine have recommended that you lower your salt intake, but in this well-researched and surprising book, Dr. DiNicolantonio explains why this seemingly well-informed advice is, in fact, wrong.  The Salt Fix provides the advice and the program you need to add back the salt and in the process improve your health and your waistline.” —Robb Wolf, New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Solution and Wired to Eat “The medical profession has done a disservice to