In my opinion, everyone should be free to choose whether they want to be healthy or not. It’s not my place to tell others how to live their lives, and I greatly appreciate it when others extend me the same freedom to make my own choices. However, many people lack access to critical information that would empower them to make truly informed decisions.
Shouldn’t everyone have access to information that helps them make informed choices? Unfortunately, they don’t.
Take sodium intake, for example. Many people are highly concerned about it, and the government gets involved by labeling foods “high in sodium.” But is sodium really the problem? Generally, no. The real issue is insulin resistance, which causes the body to retain sodium.
Most people have never even heard of insulin resistance. I hesitate to write a long article or post about it because I know there’s another 20-minute scroll of useless information waiting to distract people. Simply put: if people weren’t insulin resistant, they wouldn’t need to fear sodium. Yet the government doesn’t mention that on the label—it just says “high in sodium.”
I won’t say more than that. I know there’s another post you might be itching to read, and this one is already too long…
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I’m shocked to see someone identify insulin resistance as the underlying cause of sodium intolerance. Insulin resistance is the cause of the vast majority of diseases of the affluent. And your doctor probably doesn’t have a clue, and worse yet doesn’t want to have a clue. Because you dont need a prescription to correct IR, it’s free!
And insulin resistance probably starts in the liver. I think everyone should be free to choose whatever but there needs to be some basic truths that are reiterated throughout, like warnings on cigarettes (which I think are nocebos btw just like pink ribbon anything) and that is everything is buyer beware. Everything. Just because it says 'No BPA' doesn't mean it doesn't use a worse plastic they haven't tested at all. People see warnings on everything and they think *someone* has it all under control. Have you met people who work for the government? Do you know doctors and nurses who eat like shit? Who smoke? No one has anything under control and they shouldn't try, it would be impossible. The other truth is that everything anyone in public says is marketing, either for themselves or someone else. Buyer beware and marketing. If you can reiterate this before you go into the world each day then you have half a chance of making a workable decision for yourself.