Comments by "Diana Pennepacker" (@dianapennepacker6854) on "Is salt actually bad for you? Why do some people like salt way more than others do? (PODCAST E27)" video.

As someone with a lot of health issues. Salt is real tricky since I have both stage 4 liver disease which turned into also having stage 4 kidney disease. I should have bare minimal sodium. Technically all people can just get it naturally from eating healthy food. People don't realize salt is in basically all veggies, fruits, milk, and meats. If you're eating healthy you're good to go! In today's modern food its pretty much impossible to go without it. Now if you're an athlete eating just veggies and drinking just water? Or working in the sun? Yeah you can easily lose all your electrolytes and that obviously can be a serious issue! Now back to my condition. I should avoid all. Fluid retention does terrible things to me and sodium is one extra strain on heart rate (not BP. HEART.). I also don't make urine - but I do use the bathroom a lot due to medication and have had some serious issues come up due to lack of sodium and potassium! You see potassium especially is terrible for CKD patients and doctors and nurses basically always assume patients are likely to be super high in it which is dangerous. I am not a typical patient and so the lack of liquids and lack of potassium was nearly killing me.
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Yeah if your body craves something it usually means you are in need of it. Like truly craving it which is hard to explain because you can be addicted to something like sugar. I'm terminally ill with stage 4 liver and kidney disease. Months ago I was craving pickles. Normal for a pregnant woman but salt is very bad for people with this disease so I shouldn't eat it as it is found in all food. I was extremely ill with GI issues as they go hand and hand with liver disease. At first I thought it was salt but my salt was normal but I was suffering from severe GERD too and acidic things don't help acid reflex. We will get to that later. Well I did and went on a pickle craze for a few months. Turned out it was most likely the lactaid acid - my body had very low PH which is dangerous to me. I can get both metabolic alkalosis and acidosis. Both are terrible and dangerous! Feels like you are dying with no fever... Anyway eventually I stopped getting that and stopped craving pickles. Also I am on an anti biotic daily and been in for severe SBP which can kill in 48 hours. Put me near death multiple times last year so my gut microboime was a wreck from the slew of antibiotics I'd be on anytime I was admitted. Yogurt then Kefir fixed MOST of my GI problems within a week when no amount of medication helped. Back to salt. Well I was following the no salt and absolutely little potassium diet that I was told to do once my kidneys failed. So from September to May I was sort of stable but still getting very ill randomly and couldn't gain weight or strength. First I found out they were severely dehydrating me during dialysis as they weren't taking my ascities into account for weight. Also turns out I was critically low on potassium! Luckily for me I met a doctor who said -you're going to die if you don't get a transplant and you need to eat to do that. Don't worry about the salt in bacon as you need protein and fat! So I never was super strict on salt which is why I was only just low on it . However some days I would crave it and just eat a pinch of a pinch. Potassium on the other hand dialysis kept telling me that they will give me some. But they only test my blood near an end of a treatment when they are giving me potassium. Basically in between treatments I was running critically low and since its hard to eat since I'm dying - I don't get enough from food. So for the longest time I would crave something and cramp dangerously at night. Wasn't dehydrated... Salt didn't do the trick but close... A month ago I remembered I had Nu Salt and gave the ingredients a second look - I thought it had phosphorous in it which I do struggle with so it has been sitting there since my liver diagnoses. Well it is actually just potassium chloride! Sure enough when I get that craving a pinch of a pinch will curb it! It also has helped with the cramp although they still happen. Like he said a charlie horse sucks especially at night time. Anyway sorry for the long post. Remember listen to your bodies! PS as for hydrating. Skim milk is better than water for a healthy person!
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