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58. Is a carnivore diet the real paleo diet? With Loren Cordain, PhD

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Is It a Critical Nutrient in Human Physiology?

We crave salt because it's actually quite rare. And we evolve to if if we encounter it, to make sure we eat it, because we might not encounter it again. So i guess the question comes up is why does the sodium potassium a t p a pump blow out sodium and take in potassium? Similarly, if you look at the calcium magnesium ratio, it takes in magnesium and blows out calcium. The typical cell whether it's a human, reptile, fish or whatever, contains very tightly regulated amounts of these six ions. When those ions get out of wack, as they do in cancer and heart disease, then we have a lot of problems.

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