Susan > wrote:

>Steve Pope wrote:

>> Understood, but of the people in the U.S. taking medicine
>> for hypertension, I wonder for what fraction of them their
>> doctors had them check for sodium sensitivity first, in
>> any sort of rigorous way. I bet it's less than one-third.
>> Maybe one-tenth.

>I've never heard of any doctor testing it. Mineral balance is maintained
>by adrenal hormones, and hypertension is most often a
>metabolic/endocrine problem.

>Everyone seems to be getting pills for every ill, without evaluation of
>underlying mechanisms. That's what was being thrust upon me for years,
>but I refused, and researched my own symptoms and found that low carbing
>and potassium (first from lite salt, then rx K Dur) lowered my bp to
>very low normal, it's been years now.

Good. My doctor is one of the few (apparently) who had
me check myself for sodium sensitivity, using the procedure
I described earlier, before putting me on BP meds.

Steve