Craving salty foods such as potato chips is a common, common symptom of adrenal fatigue.
Most of us like potato chips; it is high in fat, it is low in calories nowadays, but some
are still high of course. But the concept that the potato chips bring in a lot of salt,
together with other foods that bring in salt is often times a very, very common finding
in people with adrenal fatigue. The question is why.
This is Dr.Lam, founder of DrLam.com. Here, I'm going to explain to you that when you
have adrenal fatigue, the body's ability to retain sodium or salt goes down.
This is usually a result because the adrenal glands, when working very hard in advanced
cases, tend to lose a hormone called aldosterone. When this compound or this hormone goes down,
the body's ability to retain salt goes down. And as a result, there's usually a salt craving.
It's very common for people to experience an increased craving for salt when they have
adrenal fatigue. In fact taking a little bit of salt in a drink throughout the day can
be a significant improvement, and this is a primary indicator that the aldosterone level
is low.
Now you have to be careful because excessive salt can also be problematic especially in
regards to blood pressure and if your heart is not very strong. But for most people in
adrenal fatigue, they love to take salt. They love to salt their food and the more salt
they do, the better they feel, even though it may be contrary to conventional medical
thoughts.
Now, aside from those people who really cannot tolerate salt or have salt problems, adrenal
fatigue people tend to love salt as a result. And what are the foods that are high in salt?
Potato chips are easy to get and that's why most adrenal fatigue people tend to love it.
Now of course there's a problem along with this; it's that potato chips and other high
salty foods tend to be very oily, and in the case of potato chips, does not have very much
dense nutrients, so they tend to cause the body to go into a stressful situation to be
able to assimilate the potato chips, for example, in such a way that generates good nutrients.
So while the salt component has been taken care of, the other components are actually
made worse. I mean we know that potato chips as a snack should not be used for people in
adrenal fatigue. But you can always compensate the salt by simply salting the food more as
tolerated, provided there's no heart problems and there's no blood pressure problems.
So, recognizing there's a salt craving for salty foods is a very early and subtle sign
of adrenal fatigue. Now, most people don't pay attention to this, but if you ask and
you look back, everybody or most people with adrenal fatigue that has been longstanding
can tell you that they started off liking a lot of salty foods when they were young.
So actually this process usually takes a long time to gradually advance to such a point
that adrenal fatigue comes on. But salt craving is indeed one of the very early early subtle
signs of an adrenal problem, so do pay attention to this and I think you'll be able to put
the whole picture together and understand how the adrenals are related.
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