Sodium, Thyroid, and Metabolism
I've been listening to a lot of Stan Efferdings seminars and read a lot of research studies that he referenced. Prior to this, I was a Salt-Nazi, I was one of those people that had been brainwashed into thinking Sodium was the devil. For those unaware, the vertical diet was popularized by Stand and he is also a trainer for professional athletes, one of which is Brian Shaw (4 times World Strongest Man)
One of his big messsges is iodized salt is a critical part to an athletes diet - because during intense training, the body sweats out a lot of salt not just water. On top of that, he talks about the important of Iodine and it's role in stimulating the thyroid, which plays a big role in metabolism.
Over the last 4ish months I incorporated salt into more of my meals, especially post workouts. I did bloodwork last week and had thyroid tested, came back at 1.32 my last thyroid test was 1.01 from the start of the year, so a big improvement of 31%. Obviously there are a lot of other factors and 2 blood work tests isn't a very big sample size. However, Subjective speaking, I do "feel" like I've had an increase in metabolism and energy.
Just some food for thought (pun intended) Next round of blood work is in 3 months.
Sodium, Thyroid, and Metabolism
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I've been listening to a lot of Stan Efferdings seminars and read a lot of research studies that he referenced. Prior to this, I was a Salt-Nazi, I was one of those people that had been brainwashed into thinking Sodium was the devil. For those unaware, the vertical diet was popularized by Stand and he is also a trainer for professional athletes, one of which is Brian Shaw (4 times World Strongest Man)
One of his big messsges is iodized salt is a critical part to an athletes diet - because during intense training, the body sweats out a lot of salt not just water. On top of that, he talks about the important of Iodine and it's role in stimulating the thyroid, which plays a big role in metabolism.
Over the last 4ish months I incorporated salt into more of my meals, especially post workouts. I did bloodwork last week and had thyroid tested, came back at 1.32 my last thyroid test was 1.01 from the start of the year, so a big improvement of 31%. Obviously there are a lot of other factors and 2 blood work tests isn't a very big sample size. However, Subjective speaking, I do "feel" like I've had an increase in metabolism and energy.
Just some food for thought (pun intended) Next round of blood work is in 3 months.
Iodine is definitely important!...on the thyroid test you are talking about, what exact levels are you actually talking about? TSH, T3, T4....?
