Thread: Get your salt!
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Old Wed, Oct-10-12, 12:05
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Originally Posted by juliaca201
so, should I lose faith in the completeness/healthiness of the LC/paleo diet? did our ancestors need sodium supplements, or did they get them elsewhere?

According to Phinney/Volek they didn't lack for sodium supplements. The Masai get it from drinking cattle blood and the Inuit got it from ice of a certain age. I think I quoted them earlier in the thread.

Salt is pretty easy to acquire, especially if you live close to an ocean, or a primordial ocean and our ancestors weren't idiots.

Also, they probably didn't all eat very low carb diets. The more carbs you have, the more your body hangs onto sodium.
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