Eating too much salt is a major cause of autoimmune diseases!....

Today's Post:  Thursday, 3-7-2013

Autoimmune diseases are some of the most horrible known to humankind.

ALS traps you in a body you no longer can make move even though you are still in there and conscious.

Rheumatoid arthritis disfigures your joints, causes you pain, and tends to disable you and remove your mobility.

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system in which the body's own immune system destroys the insulating myelin sheath around the axons of neurons which often leads to a variety of neurological deficits and permanent disability.  It's similar to ALS.  And the appearance of people who have it begins to be a bit hard to look at because they begin to lose control of the muscles in their face!

And there are others that are just as bad.

So far there has been little progress on turning them off once they show up.

We already know that people who take less than the optimal 3,000 to 5,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 or who fail to get that much from sun exposure are a good bit more likely to get these diseases.

And, we already know that eating too much salt damages the endothelium or insides of your blood vessels which causes heart disease and other diseases from reduced circulation including high blood pressure.  Further, recent research found this to be one of the major causes of gout.

Now, we have new research done by an international team.

They were able to show that excess salt intake directly caused harmful immune system changes that triggered autoimmune disease.

Wow!

It turns out that adding too much salt to packaged desserts, snacks, dinners, and fast food that has become more prevalent has also directly caused and increased the amount of autoimmune diseases.

Since virtually all these foods fatten you and cause heart disease too, we suggest no longer eating 99 % to all of such foods.

And following a blend of the DASH II diet and the Mediterranean diet that is relentlessly low but NOT zero in salt and yet is still very tasty also is a solution to this.

In my email from Medical News Today, today I found this:

International Study: Excess Dietary Salt May Drive The Development Of Autoimmune Diseases

http://mnt.to/a/4cb7

Increased dietary salt intake can induce a group of aggressive immune cells that are involved in triggering and sustaining autoimmune diseases. 

This is the result of a study conducted by Dr. Markus Kleinewietfeld, Prof.

International Study: Excess Dietary Salt May Drive The Development Of Autoimmune Diseases    Article Date: 06 Mar 2013 - 10:00 PST