Testing your own salt sensitivity. New research suggests a way to do this at home.

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I attach a recently published article on 12 normal subjects showing

that the ingestion of a 6gm sodium serving of soup consumed over 20

minutes can increase BP more that a similar soup with no salt.

So how to do the salt test I think but would be interested in others

input before we begin testing.

1. Consume an 6 gm salt per day for 2 weeks-about 105 mM Na or ~2100

mg sodium per day.

2. The night before the salt testing day do not eat or drink anything

after 10 PM.

3. At 7:30 AM begin measuring BP every 5 minutes or maybe every 10

minutes. You will likely need an assistant to take the BP but not sure

yet. Will be testing myself in AM.

Take 3 reading every 5 minutes. or take 1 every 5 minutes. So you

have baseline BPs.

4. At 8 AM drink the warn soup over 20 minutes.

5. Measure the BP every 10 minutes 3x at each so you now have 12 post

salt BPs

6. Do this for 2 hours. so you now have 12 post salt BPs

7. Plot time on x and BPs on the y. Decide in your BP went up. Note

the aveage at 1 hour was 14 mm Hg but one went up to 40 mm Hg.

8. We could also compare the 6 baseline readings with the 12 post

readings using a t-test or better yet use analysis of variance

(repeated measures) Some one here must be an expert in doing the data

analysis.

Details from the article are below.

Lets design a quick way to test SS. Drugs may block this but some here

are on no drugs.

Also one could just do it on what ever diet you are eating. If no

pressor effect then would need to repeat on a 2400 mg diet for 2 weeks.

CE Grim MD

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pastedGraphic.tiff

Macgregor SS oral testing 2012 KI.pdf