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I wonder if any lady member here has managed what Ray has spoken in his 2012 interview on blood pressure (alleviation of PMS with increased salt). (Blood Pressure Regulation, Heart Failure And Muscle Atrophy - Kmud, 2012-07-20).
"HD2: It can be a little bit confusing for patients sometimes.
I wanted to talk about salt, and how this affects water retention, swelling of the heart, heart failure and pregnancy toxemia. I think they are all linked to a salt deficiency. And scientific studies have shown that.
RP: If you just inject a fairly concentrated salt solution, you can see that it directly reduces the leakiness of blood vessels; but once anything such as starvation or high estrogen or whatever starts the leakiness problem of your capillaries, sodium tends to be the first thing that you lose. Estrogen is a major factor in causing the retention of water and the loss of sodium. So your fluids become hypotonic and they tend to force water into your cells, rather than drawing water out, as it's produced.
HD2: And this is common with PMS, when the estrogen rises. A lot of women experience increased swelling and bloating around this time.
RP: Yah. And the toxemia symptoms of pregnancy are essentially the same as PMS symptoms. And surprisingly, menopause involves many of the same symptoms as premenstrual syndrome. And that's one of the great mystifications created by the estrogen industry: they say [claim] that all of these bad symptoms are caused by a deficiency of estrogen. But in fact, you see the effects on the circulatory system - high blood pressure, leakiness, a tendency to form aneurisms and to have the aneurisms rupture and cause bleeding, the spontaneous hemorrhaging - all of these tend to associate with the time of menstruation, at the end of the premenstrual time (when the progesterone falls, leaving unopposed estrogen) and in toxemic pregnancies (when a women isn't getting good nutrition, especially not enough protein and salt, and in menopause).
The menopause, in particular, has been characterized as a time of estrogen deficiency; but if you look at all of the events of menopause, the health failures of the various systems, they’re all identical to these other times of estrogen excess.
HD2:So, how does salt play a part in helping relieve this edema and excess of leak of water from the blood into the surrounding tissues, causing a puffy feeling and appearance?
RP: It has some direct effects on the mitochondria, increasing energy production and shifting the balance of the cell in the right direction to produce more carbon dioxide. And working with the carbon dioxide, it's very close to thyroid's effects in regulating its own concentration in the body (it increases carbon dioxide; and the carbon dioxide helps to retain as much sodium as you need). Without the sodium or thyroid, you tend to produce more lactic acid, displacing the carbon dioxide, causing inflammation and water retention. So many doctors will just insist that the more salt you eat, the more water you will retain and the higher your blood pressure will be. But David McCarron was the first medical person to point out that it's a calcium deficiency rather than a sodium excess that accounts for so much of the high blood pressure related to nutrition."
Salt ingestion could be a very easy and cheap solution to PMS; but Ray doesn't mention real-life cases in this interview.
"HD2: It can be a little bit confusing for patients sometimes.
I wanted to talk about salt, and how this affects water retention, swelling of the heart, heart failure and pregnancy toxemia. I think they are all linked to a salt deficiency. And scientific studies have shown that.
RP: If you just inject a fairly concentrated salt solution, you can see that it directly reduces the leakiness of blood vessels; but once anything such as starvation or high estrogen or whatever starts the leakiness problem of your capillaries, sodium tends to be the first thing that you lose. Estrogen is a major factor in causing the retention of water and the loss of sodium. So your fluids become hypotonic and they tend to force water into your cells, rather than drawing water out, as it's produced.
HD2: And this is common with PMS, when the estrogen rises. A lot of women experience increased swelling and bloating around this time.
RP: Yah. And the toxemia symptoms of pregnancy are essentially the same as PMS symptoms. And surprisingly, menopause involves many of the same symptoms as premenstrual syndrome. And that's one of the great mystifications created by the estrogen industry: they say [claim] that all of these bad symptoms are caused by a deficiency of estrogen. But in fact, you see the effects on the circulatory system - high blood pressure, leakiness, a tendency to form aneurisms and to have the aneurisms rupture and cause bleeding, the spontaneous hemorrhaging - all of these tend to associate with the time of menstruation, at the end of the premenstrual time (when the progesterone falls, leaving unopposed estrogen) and in toxemic pregnancies (when a women isn't getting good nutrition, especially not enough protein and salt, and in menopause).
The menopause, in particular, has been characterized as a time of estrogen deficiency; but if you look at all of the events of menopause, the health failures of the various systems, they’re all identical to these other times of estrogen excess.
HD2:So, how does salt play a part in helping relieve this edema and excess of leak of water from the blood into the surrounding tissues, causing a puffy feeling and appearance?
RP: It has some direct effects on the mitochondria, increasing energy production and shifting the balance of the cell in the right direction to produce more carbon dioxide. And working with the carbon dioxide, it's very close to thyroid's effects in regulating its own concentration in the body (it increases carbon dioxide; and the carbon dioxide helps to retain as much sodium as you need). Without the sodium or thyroid, you tend to produce more lactic acid, displacing the carbon dioxide, causing inflammation and water retention. So many doctors will just insist that the more salt you eat, the more water you will retain and the higher your blood pressure will be. But David McCarron was the first medical person to point out that it's a calcium deficiency rather than a sodium excess that accounts for so much of the high blood pressure related to nutrition."
Salt ingestion could be a very easy and cheap solution to PMS; but Ray doesn't mention real-life cases in this interview.
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