Salt may not make you thirsty, and it may help with weight loss.
Yep, those on the conclusions of a NYT article on Russian Cosmonaut studies. Researchers rarely get to put people in isolation and measure all their excretions (what a great job!) so they can be forgiven for missing this particular discovery.
It turns out that the cosmonauts had twenty-eight-day cycle of salt retention, even if they were on a low salt diet. Because these were men, it's a new discovery. If they'd been women, everyone would have said, "I knew that."
The men also lost weight when they ate lots of salt, and weren't thirstier overall. Again, this seems miraculous until you remember that iodine reacts with the thyroid to stimulate thyroid function. Lots of salt, lots of thyroid function. But the reason we don't do tons of salt is because you can't really control thyroid function well with salt. Sometimes it becomes active (weight loss) sometimes it gets very active (panic attack) and sometimes it desensitizes the body to thyroid (weight gain despite all your best efforts).
So, while researchers scratch their heads, here's the take home. Turns out men have a twenty-eight-day cycle too. If he's cranky and looks bloated, it may really be his time of the month.
Yep, those on the conclusions of a NYT article on Russian Cosmonaut studies. Researchers rarely get to put people in isolation and measure all their excretions (what a great job!) so they can be forgiven for missing this particular discovery.
It turns out that the cosmonauts had twenty-eight-day cycle of salt retention, even if they were on a low salt diet. Because these were men, it's a new discovery. If they'd been women, everyone would have said, "I knew that."
The men also lost weight when they ate lots of salt, and weren't thirstier overall. Again, this seems miraculous until you remember that iodine reacts with the thyroid to stimulate thyroid function. Lots of salt, lots of thyroid function. But the reason we don't do tons of salt is because you can't really control thyroid function well with salt. Sometimes it becomes active (weight loss) sometimes it gets very active (panic attack) and sometimes it desensitizes the body to thyroid (weight gain despite all your best efforts).
So, while researchers scratch their heads, here's the take home. Turns out men have a twenty-eight-day cycle too. If he's cranky and looks bloated, it may really be his time of the month.
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