salt-antidepressant-latest-research

Salt linked to Depression
(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)
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Researchers associate salt deprivation with depression in a study to be published in July in the Journal of Physiology and Behavior.

In experimental studies with rats, the research team at the University of Iowa found that salt deprived rats show disinterest (as though depressed) in pleasurable activity and remarkably regain interest on giving required salt.
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Experiment OBSERVATION
The research team found, “Things that normally would be pleasurable for rats didn’t elicit the same degree of relish.”
Give the rats salt again and “they’re all happy,” Johnson says.
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Experiment INFERENCE
According to Kim Alan Johnson Ph.D, Professor of Psychology , Integrative Physiology, and Pharmacology the research, “leads us to believe that a salt deficit and the craving associated with it can induce one of the key symptoms associated with depression.”

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Pros = THINK
Doctor’s should note that craving for salt by individuals who are forbidden to eat excess salt may be nature’s call saying, “I need the salt to feel good.”

Cons = BEWARE
Doctor’s have known the relation of salt and cardiovascular function.
The extra salt that is consumed through canned food and junk food is proven to be harmful.

The worldwide average for salt intake per individual is about 10 grams per day, which is greater than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended intake by about 4 grams, and may exceed what the body actually needs by more than 8 grams.

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TAKE HOME MESSAGE
Salt is related to brain functions, especially where interest and disinterest is processed.
This is not evidence saying the extra salt that we consume in canned food is good.
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LINKS
[1] Alan Johnson
[2] Journal of Physiology and Behavior
[3] National Geographic News
Titled:
Is Salt Nature’s Antidepressant?
By:
Helen Fields
for National Geographic News
Date:
March 17, 2009
Date accessed:
March 20, 2009
© 1996-2008 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved.

[4]
Title Salt May Be a
Natural Antidepressant
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2009-03-11 12:49:14
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[5]elsevier.com

Findings detailed in the journal Physiology and Behavior.
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