sodium and potassium....is this true?

Cs and others..is this true? how much sodium to potassium? thanks!

http://www.stophairloss.com/sodiumpotas.html

Salt can be the culprit!

Salt can be a toxic substance for hair follicles. If you have too much salt in your system, your body will deposit the excess sodium around the hair follicles. These veritable salt licks serve as a powerful barrier preventing necessary nutrients from entering the follicle. The resulting lack of nutrients causes your hair to fall out.

However, if you have too little sodium in relation to potassium, your hair will fall out, too. Not enough salt means the electrolytes are wrong and nutrients can't pass from your blood stream into the hair follicles. Your hair falls out for the same reason: the cells are starving, even the cause is different.

For example, the drug Minodoxil works by allowing the nutrients to enter the hair follicles, restoring health.

Potassium sensitizes the body to hormones, which tell your body what to do. If you don't have enough potassium in your system, your tissues become less sensitive. That makes it difficult to grow back hair because the cells don't get the message. Fast metabolizers have too much potassium. The cells are too sensitive and don't get all of the message.

If you have too much salt in your system, stop eating salty foods and ingest foods high in potassium.

Good sources of potassium include: bananas, lean meats, whole grains, sunflower seeds, bran, fruits and vegetables.

If you have too little salt in your system, cut down on the above foods and lightly salt your food.

So, how do you know if you have too little or too much? Only a TMA test will know for sure.

Find out if a sodium/potassium imbalance is contributing to your hair loss!

RobHealthMan - Sodium to potassium ratio has a lot to do with insulin resistance. How much salt the body holds is dependant upon aldosterone levels. The best salt to use I think in the link below, and based on the research spanning decades, there's no disupting it. It's called Wright salt which was formulated to match the salt used in Finland.

http://www.tahomadispensary.com/istar.asp?a=29&search=salt

CS, progesterone is a precursor to aldosterone. Would supplementing with a natural progesterone cream elevate aldosterone over the long term?

It depends on your hormonal balance.

What about sea salt or celtic salt? has a host of minerals....

CausticSymmetry wrote:RobHealthMan - Sodium to potassium ratio has a lot to do with insulin resistance. How much salt the body holds is dependant upon aldosterone levels. The best salt to use I think in the link below, and based on the research spanning decades, there's no disupting it. It's called Wright salt which was formulated to match the salt used in Finland.

http://www.tahomadispensary.com/istar.asp?a=29&search=salt

thanks CS.

how bout true-real official sea salt?

RobHealthMan - I had previously thought that sea salt, Himalayan salt and Celtic were good. However, I quickly changed my mind when I found that most of the time, these harvested, unrefined salts are "too old" to be active with respect to being electrically charged.

That all said, I updated an earlier article I wrote on salt. Here it is below:

http://www.immortalhair.org/apps/blog/show/2090441-salt-restriction-increases-risk-of-death

CS,

Is wright salt "natural"?

The wright salt is

sodium-reduced, potassium-, magnesium-, and l-lysine HCI-enriched salt

Does the chemical process used to reduce sodium and add the other ingredients mean this salt is not natural, it's chemically manufactured? do we know the product is safe and doesn't contain other ingredients like heavy metals? I am just curious that's why I ask.

Did Dr. Wright get the exact ratios of these ingredients from the Finnish experiment?

Thanks

that page is not loading for some reason? I think you could combine sea salt with salt subsitute which is 100% potassium chloride and just take a magnesium supplement.

Balthier wrote:that page is not loading for some reason? I think you could combine sea salt with salt subsitute which is 100% potassium chloride and just take a magnesium supplement.

Very interesting. thanks

How about this Tri-Salt product? http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/store/en/browse/sku_detail.jsp?id=CV-1061

I just finally bought some wright salt... and it's disgusting haha. i can barely stand it. it just dries out my mouth and has a stinging feeling on the tongue as opposed to a sodium taste. maybe ill get used to it? anyone else tried it?

i might reserve it for salt water flushes, but only if it worked well for that purpose. thinking the unique mineral makeup may impede its flushing ability.

Hey yanks,
If I were you I would use it for saltloading, mouthwash etc. and get a delicious salt for cooking. Himalayan and realsalt are the ones I got, both pretty tasty

I have some, i dont mind it. Use it in my cooking.

CS, I've heard about the Finland study from you and Wright.. I wanted to find the study but could not locate it on pubmed, is there an abstract of the Finnish salt study somewhere that I could read?

I wanted to chime in on the potassium link. Most of the information I have is related to information regarding progesterone replacement with drugs and how it creates a weird and vicious cycle.

The information is taken from Mirena Awareness website that tries to inform about the dangers of certain contraceptive for women.

1) Naural Progesterone causes concentration dependant inhibition of glucose stimulated Insulin release.

2) Levonorgestrel does not function as Natural Progesterone AND causes decreased production of Nat. Prog.

3) Mirena: initial surge of Synthetic Prog mimmicks Nat. Prog., could cause initial loss of weight

4) Subsequent ongoing usage causes the opposite, too much Insulin, weight gain: because of body decreasing Nat. Prog production( low prog=high insulin)

5) Constant use causes continually high Insulin causing Insulin Resistance.

The less Progesterone, the more Insulin release.

6) Low Progesterone. results in excess Oestrogen relative to Prog., triggering even more Insulin release

7) Pancreas starts suffering: Insulin overproduction

Excessive Insulin causes low Potassium : because Insulin promotes Pot. to enter skelettal muscle cells.

9) Leads to: Insulin Resistance: cells don't store Magnesium, lost through urine

Hence less Potassium because Pot. uptake requires Magnesium.

10) Magnesium lack causes blood vessels to constrict: bloodflow decreases: destructive ability of liver enzymes decreases.

11) Insulin causes Sodium retention, leading to even less Potassium.

A decrease in cellular Potassium would (under normal circumstances) cause less Insulin release.

Hence the body initiates more Potassium loss to decrease Insulin release (because the higher the Potassium level, the higher the Insuline release level, but the Insulin levels surge high in spite of Pot. loss because Nat. Prog. is absent/low)

Research and Side Effects

Some women report that potassium supplementation of 600 to 1200mg(in rare cases) has been effective in eliminating menopause symptoms.

Remember also that the TRX2 supplementation actually contains potassium so I wonder if there is something to potassium that many are overlooking. Sugar, low progesterone, caffeine and sodium all eliminate potassium from the body and that 97% of all Americans are potassium deficient(from a 2007 study).

(potassium also affects magnesium and vice versa)

Just texted a buddy who I recommended buy Wright Salt and he said it tastes fine to him, uses it all the time.