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Salt Linked To Autoimmune Diseases
ananyo writes "The incidence of autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, has spiked in developed countries in recent decades. In three studies published today, researchers describe the molecular pathways that can lead to autoimmune disease and identify one possible culprit that has been right under our noses — and on our tables — the entire time: salt. Some forms of autoimmunity have been linked to overproduction of TH17 cells, a type of helper T cell that produces an inflammatory protein called interleukin-17. Now scientists have found sodium chloride turns on the production of these cells (abstract). They also showed that in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, a high-salt diet accelerated the disease's progression (abstract)."
Salt, sugar, ethanol, nicotine, any food that isn't raw and tasteless--in an ideal healthy world, we would all eat a diet of cardboard and water and walk around flagellating ourselves all day.
Enjoyable = sinful = unhealthy
90 years of whole wheat is indistinguishable from death.
Nobody tell Bloomberg!
...is somewhere between 0 and 100kg per day. Now we just need to zero in on the exact number and we'll be all set.
Koans and fables for the software engineer
You should always take news like this with 64.79891 mg of NaCl.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Because those folks are dying of diseases we already cured here. Stop the noble savage BS already.
Sin and salt and ruthless efficiency!
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
Zombies get their salt from the human flesh tartare they consume. Humans taste salty. Just ask any dog that is trying to lick your face, or a coyote that is gnawing on your leg.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!