lime and saltwater

ionakathrynevans

I just read an article about drinking lime and coloured saltwater first thing when you wake in the morning - has anyone tried this?
Opinions? By tracking my diet on MFP it seems I have enough salt in my diet already!

http://www.strengthsensei.com/start-the-day-right-lime-salt-water/

Thanks

dontjinxit

That must be why my teen stole the salt shaker for a while. I ended up lecturing him on the dangers of too much salt. I don't know if it works, but I didn't notice any change in his appearance while he was hoarding the household salt and making cooking difficult.

Alluminati

Sounds ridiculous

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SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage

Makes perfect sense to me

brandiuntz

Oh my goodness, so much wrong in that "article".

Put lime in your water if you like the flavor. Don't add salt. If you have low sodium levels for some reason, see a doctor.

If you'd like to lose weight, follow a reasonable calorie deficit.

jenglish712

Change water to tequilla and I think I did try that first thing in the morning back in college.

jennifershoo

NO.

missiontofitness

I don't like accidentally getting salt water in my mouth at the beach. Not sure how I would like that.

Laurend224

He's joking, right? This has to be a joke...

Lasmartchika

Ugh... only memory of saltwater I have is - when I was small, every time my mom would pull out a baby tooth, she'd make me swish saltwater to stop the bleeding.

I agree with jenglish and make it tequila instead.

miriamtob

Drinking saltwater causes madness!

williams969

Drinking salt water gives you diarrhea. True story. Google "salt water flush". About once or twice a year I may have a horrible constipation issue, and I don't do enemas (that's a "one way street"), so I drink saltwater to move things out.

This recipe is a laxative, nothing more. And it's dumb and potentially dangerous to do it daily. Unless lab work from the doctor says otherwise, the vast majority of people get sufficient (and often in excess) amounts of sodium from their diet. No need for salty water.

Laurend224

williams969 wrote: »

Drinking salt water gives you diarrhea. True story. Google "salt water flush". About once or twice a year I may have a horrible constipation issue, and I don't do enemas (that's a "one way street"), so I drink saltwater to move things out.

This recipe is a laxative, nothing more. And it's dumb and potentially dangerous to do it daily. Unless lab work from the doctor says otherwise, the vast majority of people get sufficient (and often in excess) amounts of sodium from their diet. No need for salty water.

Oh yes, the salt water flushes from The Master Cleanse...so very nasty.

SilverRose89

There are so many things wrong in that article, I wouldn't even know where to start.

JillyCornwall

I can actually see what he is basing his article upon as he is quite correct in that the salt balance in our bodies does play an important part in the control of certain hormones essential for health and well being and the major one is Cortisol production which is as he correctly said produced by the adrenal glands above the kidneys.
There has been a lot of research into 'salt loading' and the production of cortisol. if you take his advice within context what he is advocating can absolutely do NO harm to anyone, you probably consume more than 1/4 teaspoon of salt in you breakfast cereal unless its just oatmeal! Lime or lemon juice in warm water has for many years been considered a good way of intaking vit c..so again will not do any harm.

Whether we 'need' to do this or whether it has great benefit is a matter of opinion and debate but certainly is neither ridiculous or harmful, and infact if the people he is promoting this too also drink more than 2 litres of water a day may do them great benefit as the modern day fashion for drinking huge amounts of water 'flushes' the system not just of toxins but also of essential salts and electrolytes as my OH found out after being hospitalised for low sodium after drinking 4 litres of water a day for two weeks and not eating properly at the same time.

LKArgh

Is this link a joke? Perhaps a bet, like "post as much nonsense as possible and make it sound scientific"?

Alatariel75

williams969 wrote: »

Drinking salt water gives you diarrhea. True story. Google "salt water flush". About once or twice a year I may have a horrible constipation issue, and I don't do enemas (that's a "one way street"), so I drink saltwater to move things out.

This recipe is a laxative, nothing more. And it's dumb and potentially dangerous to do it daily. Unless lab work from the doctor says otherwise, the vast majority of people get sufficient (and often in excess) amounts of sodium from their diet. No need for salty water.

Your post reminded me of this story. A number of years ago, my old flatmate took his 2 boxers to the beach. While they played in the surf and chased sticks, one of them drank a whole lot of salt water. Cut to the drive home, and all of a sudden the dog gets the runs. Like, projectile liquid poop. The dog freaks out and, as dogs do, starts trying to look at its own butt to work out what's going on. So there's my flatmate, ebing 80km/hour down the freeway with a spinning dog poop sprinkler in the back of his station wagon. There was poop EVERYWHERE, including all over the back of flatmate's head.

That car never smelled the same again.

tekkiechikk

Yeesh.. yet another pseudo-scientific article filled with promises of false hope. It's cleverly written, though... "One of the most important changes he made was to start every day with himalayan salt and lime juice in a glass of water." The key being ONE of the most. I bet hitting the weights and eating right was about 99% of his success- you don't get that body from sitting on your butt swilling salt water and resetting your biorhythms.