Re: Salt, adrenals and thyroid

[Guest guest]

Way to go Katy! I have had similar results with my salt intake but thought I was 'just crackers' lol. Way to go with the discovery!

Here's salt to you!

Salt, adrenals and thyroid

Hi everyoneI discovered something about my slowly recovering illness that I thought I would share with the group – others may find the information helpful.Firstly a bit of background. I should point out that as a low carber for the past 5 years, I avoid most starches and sugars and also make all my food from scratch, never eating "ready meals" and rarely junk and/or processed foods such as crisps and biscuits. I am strongly of the opinion that this change of diet has held off my hypoT illness for those intervening years and it was only when I started true perimenopause proper that my hypoT symptoms became impossible to ignore.Well, we all know nowadays that 75% of the salt in our diet comes from processed foods, including bread and boxed cereals, which I don't eat. Anyway, during those years of not eating processed foods and ready meals, I have occasionally found that I was feeling very fatigued, a problem which I was able to correct by remembering to salt my meals properly – or even leaving a pinch of salt on my tongue. I eat the most unprocessed salt I can find – grey atlantic sea salt which retains much of it's natural trace mineral content, and not the processed white salt we see for sale in supermarkets.Anyway, to bring us up to date, we here know that fatigue is a symptom of hypoT and also hypoadrenalism and I have been struggling with fatigue much more recently. I tend to have "bouts" of fatigue interspersed with very good times while I recover and find the right dose of Armour. I am also taking Nutri Adrenal Extra. This week, I lapsed into a very bad period of fatigue and was feeling *dreadful* by Wednesday. Suddenly, I remembered the old salt trick that has been so successful on similar occasions over the past few years. I put a pinch of salt on my tongue. I felt better within and hour or two. Later that day, I tried another pinch of salt, and by the next morning I was recovered.What to learn from this? Well I find it fascinating, actually, because researching this issue I've read that people who have exhausted adrenals need extra sodium because they apparently excrete more in their urine. So it could be that I have not only found out that some of my fatigue is due to exhausted adrenals but also that it's the lack of sufficient salt in my own diet which exacerbates the situation. And it can be fairly easily corrected! Yay!I guess it's another one of those times when one of those mainstream accepted ideas (for example, quoting my FIL: "Salt is poison.") just ain't true. And in actual fact, I don't think many of us here would be at all surprised.Katy

[Guest guest]

Pretty cool... I've noticed that myself, as I've become pretty much home cooking only and dont' get bombarded with overly salted and processed foods anymore.

For me, I do 'salt licks' When I crave salt or have been sweating a lot I'll lick the back of my hand and sprinkle some salt on it and then start licking... when my body figures I've had enough I stop.

Here's a bit of trivia..... Salt excreters (those that lose excessive salt in their sweat) are the ones that dogs and cats LOVE to lick... they are after our salt, it's not a love infatuation....

.... sorry...

hehehehhe

Topper ()

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:52:19 -0000 "Katy" writes:

Hi everyoneI discovered something about my slowly recovering illness that I thought I would share with the group – others may find the information helpful.Firstly a bit of background. I should point out that as a low carber for the past 5 years, I avoid most starches and sugars and also make all my food from scratch, never eating "ready meals" and rarely junk and/or processed foods such as crisps and biscuits. I am strongly of the opinion that this change of diet has held off my hypoT illness for those intervening years and it was only when I started true perimenopause proper that my hypoT symptoms became impossible to ignore.Well, we all know nowadays that 75% of the salt in our diet comes from processed foods, including bread and boxed cereals, which I don't eat. Anyway, during those years of not eating processed foods and ready meals, I have occasionally found that I was feeling very fatigued, a problem which I was able to correct by remembering to salt my meals properly – or even leaving a pinch of salt on my tongue. I eat the most unprocessed salt I can find – grey atlantic sea salt which retains much of it's natural trace mineral content, and not the processed white salt we see for sale in supermarkets.Anyway, to bring us up to date, we here know that fatigue is a symptom of hypoT and also hypoadrenalism and I have been struggling with fatigue much more recently. I tend to have "bouts" of fatigue interspersed with very good times while I recover and find the right dose of Armour. I am also taking Nutri Adrenal Extra. This week, I lapsed into a very bad period of fatigue and was feeling *dreadful* by Wednesday. Suddenly, I remembered the old salt trick that has been so successful on similar occasions over the past few years. I put a pinch of salt on my tongue. I felt better within and hour or two. Later that day, I tried another pinch of salt, and by the next morning I was recovered.What to learn from this? Well I find it fascinating, actually, because researching this issue I've read that people who have exhausted adrenals need extra sodium because they apparently excrete more in their urine. So it could be that I have not only found out that some of my fatigue is due to exhausted adrenals but also that it's the lack of sufficient salt in my own diet which exacerbates the situation. And it can be fairly easily corrected! Yay!I guess it's another one of those times when one of those mainstream accepted ideas (for example, quoting my FIL: "Salt is poison.") just ain't true. And in actual fact, I don't think many of us here would be at all surprised.Katy

[Guest guest]

Pretty cool... I've noticed that myself, as I've become pretty much home cooking only and dont' get bombarded with overly salted and processed foods anymore.

For me, I do 'salt licks' When I crave salt or have been sweating a lot I'll lick the back of my hand and sprinkle some salt on it and then start licking... when my body figures I've had enough I stop.

Here's a bit of trivia..... Salt excreters (those that lose excessive salt in their sweat) are the ones that dogs and cats LOVE to lick... they are after our salt, it's not a love infatuation....

.... sorry...

hehehehhe

Topper ()

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:52:19 -0000 "Katy" writes:

Hi everyoneI discovered something about my slowly recovering illness that I thought I would share with the group – others may find the information helpful.Firstly a bit of background. I should point out that as a low carber for the past 5 years, I avoid most starches and sugars and also make all my food from scratch, never eating "ready meals" and rarely junk and/or processed foods such as crisps and biscuits. I am strongly of the opinion that this change of diet has held off my hypoT illness for those intervening years and it was only when I started true perimenopause proper that my hypoT symptoms became impossible to ignore.Well, we all know nowadays that 75% of the salt in our diet comes from processed foods, including bread and boxed cereals, which I don't eat. Anyway, during those years of not eating processed foods and ready meals, I have occasionally found that I was feeling very fatigued, a problem which I was able to correct by remembering to salt my meals properly – or even leaving a pinch of salt on my tongue. I eat the most unprocessed salt I can find – grey atlantic sea salt which retains much of it's natural trace mineral content, and not the processed white salt we see for sale in supermarkets.Anyway, to bring us up to date, we here know that fatigue is a symptom of hypoT and also hypoadrenalism and I have been struggling with fatigue much more recently. I tend to have "bouts" of fatigue interspersed with very good times while I recover and find the right dose of Armour. I am also taking Nutri Adrenal Extra. This week, I lapsed into a very bad period of fatigue and was feeling *dreadful* by Wednesday. Suddenly, I remembered the old salt trick that has been so successful on similar occasions over the past few years. I put a pinch of salt on my tongue. I felt better within and hour or two. Later that day, I tried another pinch of salt, and by the next morning I was recovered.What to learn from this? Well I find it fascinating, actually, because researching this issue I've read that people who have exhausted adrenals need extra sodium because they apparently excrete more in their urine. So it could be that I have not only found out that some of my fatigue is due to exhausted adrenals but also that it's the lack of sufficient salt in my own diet which exacerbates the situation. And it can be fairly easily corrected! Yay!I guess it's another one of those times when one of those mainstream accepted ideas (for example, quoting my FIL: "Salt is poison.") just ain't true. And in actual fact, I don't think many of us here would be at all surprised.Katy

[Guest guest]

Pretty cool... I've noticed that myself, as I've become pretty much home cooking only and dont' get bombarded with overly salted and processed foods anymore.

For me, I do 'salt licks' When I crave salt or have been sweating a lot I'll lick the back of my hand and sprinkle some salt on it and then start licking... when my body figures I've had enough I stop.

Here's a bit of trivia..... Salt excreters (those that lose excessive salt in their sweat) are the ones that dogs and cats LOVE to lick... they are after our salt, it's not a love infatuation....

.... sorry...

hehehehhe

Topper ()

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:52:19 -0000 "Katy" writes:

Hi everyoneI discovered something about my slowly recovering illness that I thought I would share with the group – others may find the information helpful.Firstly a bit of background. I should point out that as a low carber for the past 5 years, I avoid most starches and sugars and also make all my food from scratch, never eating "ready meals" and rarely junk and/or processed foods such as crisps and biscuits. I am strongly of the opinion that this change of diet has held off my hypoT illness for those intervening years and it was only when I started true perimenopause proper that my hypoT symptoms became impossible to ignore.Well, we all know nowadays that 75% of the salt in our diet comes from processed foods, including bread and boxed cereals, which I don't eat. Anyway, during those years of not eating processed foods and ready meals, I have occasionally found that I was feeling very fatigued, a problem which I was able to correct by remembering to salt my meals properly – or even leaving a pinch of salt on my tongue. I eat the most unprocessed salt I can find – grey atlantic sea salt which retains much of it's natural trace mineral content, and not the processed white salt we see for sale in supermarkets.Anyway, to bring us up to date, we here know that fatigue is a symptom of hypoT and also hypoadrenalism and I have been struggling with fatigue much more recently. I tend to have "bouts" of fatigue interspersed with very good times while I recover and find the right dose of Armour. I am also taking Nutri Adrenal Extra. This week, I lapsed into a very bad period of fatigue and was feeling *dreadful* by Wednesday. Suddenly, I remembered the old salt trick that has been so successful on similar occasions over the past few years. I put a pinch of salt on my tongue. I felt better within and hour or two. Later that day, I tried another pinch of salt, and by the next morning I was recovered.What to learn from this? Well I find it fascinating, actually, because researching this issue I've read that people who have exhausted adrenals need extra sodium because they apparently excrete more in their urine. So it could be that I have not only found out that some of my fatigue is due to exhausted adrenals but also that it's the lack of sufficient salt in my own diet which exacerbates the situation. And it can be fairly easily corrected! Yay!I guess it's another one of those times when one of those mainstream accepted ideas (for example, quoting my FIL: "Salt is poison.") just ain't true. And in actual fact, I don't think many of us here would be at all surprised.Katy

[Guest guest]

Thanks for tellin us your story. I know I need to have more salt.

But sea salt is the best and I was told Celtic sea salt is the best

to take and to take it with water about six times a day about a half

of teaspoon I think is what they said. Happy to hear someone is

feeling goodd.

Theresa

Group , " Teague " wrote:

>

> Way to go Katy! I have had similar results with my salt intake but

thought I was 'just crackers' lol. Way to go with the discovery!

>

> Here's salt to you!

>

> Salt, adrenals and thyroid

>

>

> Hi everyone

>

> I discovered something about my slowly recovering illness that I

> thought I would share with the group - others may find the

> information helpful.

>

> Firstly a bit of background. I should point out that as a low

carber

> for the past 5 years, I avoid most starches and sugars and also

make

> all my food from scratch, never eating " ready meals " and rarely

junk

> and/or processed foods such as crisps and biscuits. I am

strongly

> of the opinion that this change of diet has held off my hypoT

> illness for those intervening years and it was only when I

started

> true perimenopause proper that my hypoT symptoms became

impossible

> to ignore.

>

> Well, we all know nowadays that 75% of the salt in our diet comes

> from processed foods, including bread and boxed cereals, which I

> don't eat. Anyway, during those years of not eating processed

foods

> and ready meals, I have occasionally found that I was feeling

very

> fatigued, a problem which I was able to correct by remembering to

> salt my meals properly - or even leaving a pinch of salt on my

> tongue. I eat the most unprocessed salt I can find - grey

atlantic

> sea salt which retains much of it's natural trace mineral

content,

> and not the processed white salt we see for sale in supermarkets.

>

> Anyway, to bring us up to date, we here know that fatigue is a

> symptom of hypoT and also hypoadrenalism and I have been

struggling

> with fatigue much more recently. I tend to have " bouts " of

fatigue

> interspersed with very good times while I recover and find the

right

> dose of Armour. I am also taking Nutri Adrenal Extra. This

week, I

> lapsed into a very bad period of fatigue and was feeling

*dreadful*

> by Wednesday. Suddenly, I remembered the old salt trick that has

> been so successful on similar occasions over the past few years.

I

> put a pinch of salt on my tongue. I felt better within and hour

or

> two. Later that day, I tried another pinch of salt, and by the

next

> morning I was recovered.

>

> What to learn from this? Well I find it fascinating, actually,

> because researching this issue I've read that people who have

> exhausted adrenals need extra sodium because they apparently

excrete

> more in their urine. So it could be that I have not only found

out

> that some of my fatigue is due to exhausted adrenals but also

that

> it's the lack of sufficient salt in my own diet which exacerbates

> the situation. And it can be fairly easily corrected! Yay!

>

> I guess it's another one of those times when one of those

mainstream

> accepted ideas (for example, quoting my FIL: " Salt is poison. " )

just

> ain't true. And in actual fact, I don't think many of us here

would

> be at all surprised.

>

> Katy

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

This is quite fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

I was feeling very sick on Saturday - made worse when I had an episode

of stomach ills that night that were so severe that I was shakey

afterwards. (everything I ate decided to rapidly leave if you get my

drift) Well, this morning I was still very weak, and I thought about

your salt idea. I'm not much for plain salt, but I wondered about mixing

it with a little honey on a spoon. Not bad. I drank a glass of water

with it. I suppose it's like electrolytes, right? Felt better within

minutes. Not perfect, but much better. Fast forward to tonight - I was

feeling a little weak .. could feel that " pre-illness " feeling coming

on. I made a half tea cup of warm water, mixed about a 1/4 teaspoon of

honey and a small shake of salt. Tastes pretty good. Again, I feel

re-energized, but not shakey like a sugar rush. Strangely, even my

sinuses seem more open. I like this. Will keep trying this as a source

of relief. Very interesting! Thanks for the idea.

-Lynn

Katy wrote:

> Hi everyone

>

> I discovered something about my slowly recovering illness that I

> thought I would share with the group – others may find the

> information helpful.

>

> Firstly a bit of background. I should point out that as a low carber

> for the past 5 years, I avoid most starches and sugars and also make

> all my food from scratch, never eating " ready meals " and rarely junk

> and/or processed foods such as crisps and biscuits. I am strongly

> of the opinion that this change of diet has held off my hypoT

> illness for those intervening years and it was only when I started

> true perimenopause proper that my hypoT symptoms became impossible

> to ignore.

>

> Well, we all know nowadays that 75% of the salt in our diet comes

> from processed foods, including bread and boxed cereals, which I

> don't eat. Anyway, during those years of not eating processed foods

> and ready meals, I have occasionally found that I was feeling very

> fatigued, a problem which I was able to correct by remembering to

> salt my meals properly – or even leaving a pinch of salt on my

> tongue. I eat the most unprocessed salt I can find – grey atlantic

> sea salt which retains much of it's natural trace mineral content,

> and not the processed white salt we see for sale in supermarkets.

>

> Anyway, to bring us up to date, we here know that fatigue is a

> symptom of hypoT and also hypoadrenalism and I have been struggling

> with fatigue much more recently. I tend to have " bouts " of fatigue

> interspersed with very good times while I recover and find the right

> dose of Armour. I am also taking Nutri Adrenal Extra. This week, I

> lapsed into a very bad period of fatigue and was feeling *dreadful*

> by Wednesday. Suddenly, I remembered the old salt trick that has

> been so successful on similar occasions over the past few years. I

> put a pinch of salt on my tongue. I felt better within and hour or

> two. Later that day, I tried another pinch of salt, and by the next

> morning I was recovered.

>

> What to learn from this? Well I find it fascinating, actually,

> because researching this issue I've read that people who have

> exhausted adrenals need extra sodium because they apparently excrete

> more in their urine. So it could be that I have not only found out

> that some of my fatigue is due to exhausted adrenals but also that

> it's the lack of sufficient salt in my own diet which exacerbates

> the situation. And it can be fairly easily corrected! Yay!

>

> I guess it's another one of those times when one of those mainstream

> accepted ideas (for example, quoting my FIL: " Salt is poison. " ) just

> ain't true. And in actual fact, I don't think many of us here would

> be at all surprised.

>

> Katy

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I find this interesting. Back when I was 18 and first experiencing

fatigue and poor health I went through a stage of having EVERYTHING

tasting of salt. Like I had eaten a box of salt - continous salt taste

24 hours a day. It lasted at least 6 months. Since then - cannot touch

salt at all. All food tastes 'normal' without it.

I am not sure what it meant then, and still don't know what it means

now. But I am very curious about the whole adrenal thing and fatigue

symtoms that are corrected by salt.

My kidney sits in my tummy and appears to function. But wondering,

wondering ....if function is compromised by its position. Recently had

an ovarian cyst removed and everything was so congested in there - I

just wonder about function.

Aussie Jane

> > Hi everyone

> >

> > I discovered something about my slowly recovering illness that I

> > thought I would share with the group – others may find the

> > information helpful.

> >

> > Firstly a bit of background. I should point out that as a low carber

> > for the past 5 years, I avoid most starches and sugars and also make

> > all my food from scratch, never eating " ready meals " and rarely junk

> > and/or processed foods such as crisps and biscuits. I am strongly

> > of the opinion that this change of diet has held off my hypoT

> > illness for those intervening years and it was only when I started

> > true perimenopause proper that my hypoT symptoms became impossible

> > to ignore.

> >

> > Well, we all know nowadays that 75% of the salt in our diet comes

> > from processed foods, including bread and boxed cereals, which I

> > don't eat. Anyway, during those years of not eating processed foods

> > and ready meals, I have occasionally found that I was feeling very

> > fatigued, a problem which I was able to correct by remembering to

> > salt my meals properly – or even leaving a pinch of salt on my

> > tongue. I eat the most unprocessed salt I can find – grey atlantic

> > sea salt which retains much of it's natural trace mineral content,

> > and not the processed white salt we see for sale in supermarkets.

> >

> > Anyway, to bring us up to date, we here know that fatigue is a

> > symptom of hypoT and also hypoadrenalism and I have been struggling

> > with fatigue much more recently. I tend to have " bouts " of fatigue

> > interspersed with very good times while I recover and find the right

> > dose of Armour. I am also taking Nutri Adrenal Extra. This week, I

> > lapsed into a very bad period of fatigue and was feeling *dreadful*

> > by Wednesday. Suddenly, I remembered the old salt trick that has

> > been so successful on similar occasions over the past few years. I

> > put a pinch of salt on my tongue. I felt better within and hour or

> > two. Later that day, I tried another pinch of salt, and by the next

> > morning I was recovered.

> >

> > What to learn from this? Well I find it fascinating, actually,

> > because researching this issue I've read that people who have

> > exhausted adrenals need extra sodium because they apparently excrete

> > more in their urine. So it could be that I have not only found out

> > that some of my fatigue is due to exhausted adrenals but also that

> > it's the lack of sufficient salt in my own diet which exacerbates

> > the situation. And it can be fairly easily corrected! Yay!

> >

> > I guess it's another one of those times when one of those mainstream

> > accepted ideas (for example, quoting my FIL: " Salt is poison. " ) just

> > ain't true. And in actual fact, I don't think many of us here would

> > be at all surprised.

> >

> > Katy

[Guest guest]

Hi Lynn

I'm absolutely delighted that the information has helped somebody

else!

Today I've been feeling quite grotty (is that an English phrase?!)

and have been dosing with salt quite a bit! Actually, I think it

might be mostly because I missed my morning dose of Armour because I

had blood tests today and didn't want to skew the results. Funnily

enough, I'm feeling much better since I took my dose after the

tests ... :¬P

Katy

>

> This is quite fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

>

> I was feeling very sick on Saturday - made worse when I had an

episode

> of stomach ills that night that were so severe that I was shakey

> afterwards. (everything I ate decided to rapidly leave if you get

my

> drift) Well, this morning I was still very weak, and I thought

about

> your salt idea. I'm not much for plain salt, but I wondered about

mixing

> it with a little honey on a spoon. Not bad. I drank a glass of

water

> with it. I suppose it's like electrolytes, right? Felt better

within

> minutes. Not perfect, but much better. Fast forward to tonight - I

was

> feeling a little weak .. could feel that " pre-illness " feeling

coming

> on. I made a half tea cup of warm water, mixed about a 1/4

teaspoon of

> honey and a small shake of salt. Tastes pretty good. Again, I feel

> re-energized, but not shakey like a sugar rush. Strangely, even my

> sinuses seem more open. I like this. Will keep trying this as a

source

> of relief. Very interesting! Thanks for the idea.

> -Lynn

>

[Guest guest]

To let you know Aussie Jane,

I have polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and diseases that effect your kidneys or being jumbled I read somewhere can effect it. So you may wish to see a nephrologist to make sure everything is going okay for you.

Good luck,

Re: Salt, adrenals and thyroid

I find this interesting. Back when I was 18 and first experiencingfatigue and poor health I went through a stage of having EVERYTHINGtasting of salt. Like I had eaten a box of salt - continous salt taste24 hours a day. It lasted at least 6 months. Since then - cannot touchsalt at all. All food tastes 'normal' without it. I am not sure what it meant then, and still don't know what it meansnow. But I am very curious about the whole adrenal thing and fatiguesymtoms that are corrected by salt.My kidney sits in my tummy and appears to function. But wondering,wondering ....if function is compromised by its position. Recently hadan ovarian cyst removed and everything was so congested in there - Ijust wonder about function.Aussie Jane> > Hi everyone> > > > I discovered something about my slowly recovering illness that I> > thought I would share with the group – others may find the> > information helpful.> > > > Firstly a bit of background. I should point out that as a low carber> > for the past 5 years, I avoid most starches and sugars and also make> > all my food from scratch, never eating "ready meals" and rarely junk> > and/or processed foods such as crisps and biscuits. I am strongly> > of the opinion that this change of diet has held off my hypoT> > illness for those intervening years and it was only when I started> > true perimenopause proper that my hypoT symptoms became impossible> > to ignore.> > > > Well, we all know nowadays that 75% of the salt in our diet comes> > from processed foods, including bread and boxed cereals, which I> > don't eat. Anyway, during those years of not eating processed foods> > and ready meals, I have occasionally found that I was feeling very> > fatigued, a problem which I was able to correct by remembering to> > salt my meals properly – or even leaving a pinch of salt on my> > tongue. I eat the most unprocessed salt I can find – grey atlantic> > sea salt which retains much of it's natural trace mineral content,> > and not the processed white salt we see for sale in supermarkets.> > > > Anyway, to bring us up to date, we here know that fatigue is a> > symptom of hypoT and also hypoadrenalism and I have been struggling> > with fatigue much more recently. I tend to have "bouts" of fatigue> > interspersed with very good times while I recover and find the right> > dose of Armour. I am also taking Nutri Adrenal Extra. This week, I> > lapsed into a very bad period of fatigue and was feeling *dreadful*> > by Wednesday. Suddenly, I remembered the old salt trick that has> > been so successful on similar occasions over the past few years. I> > put a pinch of salt on my tongue. I felt better within and hour or> > two. Later that day, I tried another pinch of salt, and by the next> > morning I was recovered.> > > > What to learn from this? Well I find it fascinating, actually,> > because researching this issue I've read that people who have> > exhausted adrenals need extra sodium because they apparently excrete> > more in their urine. So it could be that I have not only found out> > that some of my fatigue is due to exhausted adrenals but also that> > it's the lack of sufficient salt in my own diet which exacerbates> > the situation. And it can be fairly easily corrected! Yay!> > > > I guess it's another one of those times when one of those mainstream> > accepted ideas (for example, quoting my FIL: "Salt is poison.") just> > ain't true. And in actual fact, I don't think many of us here would> > be at all surprised.> > > > Katy

[Guest guest]

>

> Hi everyone

>

> I discovered something about my slowly recovering illness that I

> thought I would share with the group – others may find the

> information helpful.

>

> Firstly a bit of background. I should point out that as a low

carber

> for the past 5 years, I avoid most starches and sugars and also

make

> all my food from scratch, never eating " ready meals " and rarely

junk

> and/or processed foods such as crisps and biscuits. I am strongly

> of the opinion that this change of diet has held off my hypoT

> illness for those intervening years and it was only when I started

> true perimenopause proper that my hypoT symptoms became impossible

> to ignore.

>

> Well, we all know nowadays that 75% of the salt in our diet comes

> from processed foods, including bread and boxed cereals, which I

> don't eat. Anyway, during those years of not eating processed

foods

> and ready meals, I have occasionally found that I was feeling very

> fatigued, a problem which I was able to correct by remembering to

> salt my meals properly – or even leaving a pinch of salt on my

> tongue. I eat the most unprocessed salt I can find – grey

atlantic

> sea salt which retains much of it's natural trace mineral content,

> and not the processed white salt we see for sale in supermarkets.

>

> Anyway, to bring us up to date, we here know that fatigue is a

> symptom of hypoT and also hypoadrenalism and I have been

struggling

> with fatigue much more recently. I tend to have " bouts " of

fatigue

> interspersed with very good times while I recover and find the

right

> dose of Armour. I am also taking Nutri Adrenal Extra. This week,

I

> lapsed into a very bad period of fatigue and was feeling

*dreadful*

> by Wednesday. Suddenly, I remembered the old salt trick that has

> been so successful on similar occasions over the past few years.

I

> put a pinch of salt on my tongue. I felt better within and hour

or

> two. Later that day, I tried another pinch of salt, and by the

next

> morning I was recovered.

>

> What to learn from this? Well I find it fascinating, actually,

> because researching this issue I've read that people who have

> exhausted adrenals need extra sodium because they apparently

excrete

> more in their urine. So it could be that I have not only found

out

> that some of my fatigue is due to exhausted adrenals but also that

> it's the lack of sufficient salt in my own diet which exacerbates

> the situation. And it can be fairly easily corrected! Yay!

>

> I guess it's another one of those times when one of those

mainstream

> accepted ideas (for example, quoting my FIL: " Salt is poison. " )

just

> ain't true. And in actual fact, I don't think many of us here

would

> be at all surprised.

>

> Katy

>

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Betty