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i don’t think enough people understand the importance of pasta shape BEFORE pasta sauce

#does this sentence make sense #not fully but #t hi s is very important to me #sicilian genes go brr or whatever #some shapes hold diff sauces better #it’s legit just a fact like #agh #anyways #also if ur red sauce is sweet i dont want it im so so so so so sorry but #i simply cannot #sweet red sauce makes me die #i love how i say this but #if i was ever brought anywhere they go could serve me worms in a plate n i’d be like ah. Ok!#i have no backbone #BUT!!!!!#i rllyyyyyy don’t like a sweet red sauce :((((#not at all!!!!!#yap #idk like. I’m just rlllllly not a fan of traditionally salty things then being sweet #i’m a salt lover so like I WANT SALT!#lol #anyways ummmm. can u tell im eating pasta rn….#not only are pasta… polished it off w a cup of hot beef broth. Literally i’m just an ad for #salt deficiency #i’m #it’s yeah. A thing. so #this is a multi weekly ritual but arguably prob the most healthy in my life tbh!!!!!!#nutrients acquired. gains reached.#swag? simmering….#also random but i’m pretty sure my manager gave me a three day weekend sooooo. Omg swag. I def am gonna go out tomorrow for pics!!!!!

Ways to eat more salt for salt/electrolyte deficiency:

ANY store bought sauce, think; ketchup, buffalo, any hot sauce, salsa, marinara, pesto, gochujang, whatever

Miso paste! The easiest way to traditionaly use it is to melt it in water and add seaweed(very salty) and tofu. However, you can pretty much add miso to anything. Brush it on top chicken, melt it in just boiling water for tea, anything.

Seaweed snacks are not so salty and come in small packs so you only get like 50 g of salt. It’s more efficient to eat soup full of seaweed in my opinion.

Soy sauce! Try it in American bbq sauce recipe if you get tired of East Asian soy sauce recipes.

Store bought broths. Perfect for last minute soups or gravy or even marinade. You can drink it straight too. You can also use bouillon cubes, powders or pastes. Still salty!

The dish matters. If you are looking to increase salt more than the dish recommends, try dishes that are very flavor forward. I mean yes obviously every dish should have flavor but some cuisines are more minimalist than others. Try recipes with lots of spices and/or a focus on meats like beef so you don’t risk putting the flavors out of balance. Nothing will make you hate a salty diet more than eating foods that only taste like salt.

You can just eat salt if you want. Or shake it into your water. You have free will.

Don’t feel so guilty about takeout! While it’s true chefs don’t have any reason to make food “healthy” in a general sense, they have a reason to heavily salt their food. It tastes good, makes people buy more.

Popcorn is great. When I need a lot of salt, i sometimes feel too ill to eat something greasy like potato chips which used to be my go to before I even realized I was having salt cravings.

ROASTED SOY BEANS. so good, mine don’t come salty so I just spray some oil in the bag with a prepade salty seasoning and shake it up. It takes like a minute in total and it’s class. It also has a lot of good stuff to keep you from fainting like protein and carbs and micro nutrients

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Weird ways your body might signal that it needs salt:

As someone who's had POTS symptoms for years, here are a few unusual things I've experienced that I eventually figured out (through lots of experimenting) were actually cravings for/deficiency in salt. (Note that every body is different, these are just my experiences.)

- Feeling like you're craving sweet things, but eating/drinking sugary things does not help.

- Feeling noticeably thirsty, but drinking water doesn't help.

- Feeling noticeably thirsty, but any liquid you drink seems to immediately pass through your system without satisfying your thirst. (In my subjective experience, this feels different to me from the effect that diuretics like caffeine or stimulants have.)

- Water that normally tastes fine/good to you tastes noticeably different, even unpleasant or bitter.

- Persistent, abnormal digestive problems such as nausea and loose stools/diarrhea that don't have an explanation and, instead of improving within a few days, get gradually worse. This can start with an unrelated digestive issue that causes you to lose electrolytes (for me, it started with side effects from a new medication), but being deficient in salt/electrolytes can make digestive symptoms continue long after they should have improved.

(Related, if you start a new medication, always check the paperwork to see if it can cause hyponatremia, which is lack of salt in the bloodstream. Then if you're getting salt-deficient more often than normal for you, that's probably why, and you can see if increasing salt intake helps, and let your doctor know or ask them about trying a different medication.)

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I love when people judge me for eating salty things or adding salt to things because it's all like "ew that's not healthy you're going to have problems if you keep eating like that!" and okay I get it but I have an extreme salt DEFICIENCY and I'm trying to keep from passing out due to low sodium levels thank you for making fun of me for it

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Stories from a Salt Vampire

So my salt dropped today, suddenly, drastically, and unexpectedly. And while there are days when I hate the shit that my body does, today I managed to simply be extremely grateful that I actually know what the fuck is going on. I was able to take evasive action, consume an absolute metric fuck ton of salt, and salvage the rest of my day. A year ago? I would have honestly probably passed out--it was a ... uh, rather drastic drop.

I amused myself, however, by realizing during my prep period that there is a pharmacy right next to our school...like...legit 6 feet out the door (we share a plaza, my school is wierd, just roll with it). So I grabbed my wallet and shuffled down the hallway like a fucking gremlin and marched into the pharmacy. I stood there just staring at the shelves of chips and snacks, wide-eyed like some demented goblin just going “GIVE ME THE CHIIIIPSSSS”. I proceeded to buy like six snack bags of chips and some pretzels too and just marched up to the cash register grinning like a maniac.

I then retreated to my cave (classroom) to gloat over my hoarde (and eat SALT).

Oh, I also definitely busted into my himalayan salt grinder so that i could straight up eat the salt crystals. It’s been a day.

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Can I ask how you discovered that? Salt as a snack sounds rad:) I've been having issues as well and sodium deficiency sounds plausible

i have a really great medical nutritionist, and she told me over the phone.

she gave me this test to do:

stand up straight and try and reach your toes WITHOUT bending your knees, see how easy it is

then put some salt in your mouth (NOT table salt, it drains the nutrients in your body - try sea salt, rock salt, pink salt, himalayan salt etc - anything "natural”, unbleached, and unprocessed)

and then try reaching your toes again. (putting the nutrient you need in your mouth makes a pretty instant difference, you don’t even need to swallow.)

i guess if you’re deficient it’s way easier the second time.

i can’t tell if it worked on me since i collapsed on the second try since i was so weak from the first try, but she was adamant that the rest of my symptoms are sodium deficiency symptoms (heart palpitations/arrhythmia, insomnia, muscle spasms, weakness, fatigue, nausea, dizziness - which is almost synonymous with magnesium deficiency symptoms, hence me trying to treat that for the last 2 months and failing.)

but yeah, i’ve just been eating salt and putting salt in my water for 3 days, and i am feeling SO MUCH BETTER, y’all don’t even know. i slept twice in two nights without any magnesium tablets at all (i’m allergic to those too, as well as onions and garlic??). whenever my heart starts beating loud enough i can hear/feel it, i eat salt, and it stops.

anyway, shoutout to nutritionist Shelley Gawith, who is clearly a witch and a very good one at that <3

(sidenote to sick people: if your medical professional ever makes you feel bad about being “lazy”, sick, overweight, unmotivated, eating too much, tells you “it’s just x, you’re fine” when it’s clearly worse than that, tries to fix a surface problem when there’s something deeper the matter, or just has a snide judgey expression/vibe when they talk to you, you need a new doctor. you know your body better than them. but the good doctors know your body better than you. and you will know when you’ve found the right one, because what they do works, even if it takes a long time.)

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I have consumed the salted blood of vegetables.

I now have the power of blood pressure.

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American Heart Association: Honestly, you really should just try not to eat salt. You get most of your salt naturally, and there aren’t many things that can go wrong if you “don’t get enough”.

Me: *unable to see straight* *reaching for fourth gatorade* *where the hell did i put my salt tablets* *can you repeat what you just said bc i can’t process it* *what is my name again* *can’t pick up a fork*

Also me: Say what now? Nothing can go wrong? If you don’t have enough salt? Huh, guess my body didn’t get the memo.

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