Pflugers Arch March 2015 PMID 25619794

The hidden hand of chloride in hypertension.

Linsay McCallum, Stefanie Lip, Sandosh Padmanabhan

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12
Peak: 3 in Jan 2025
across 4 sources since Apr 2019

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Apr 2019 – Nov 2025

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What people are saying

Discussions express strong support and interest, with users referencing scientific concepts such as chloride's independent role in blood pressure regulation and challenging conventional sodium-focused views. The tone varies from respectful critique to enthusiastic endorsement, emphasizing the significance of chloride's role and potential implications for health, suggesting a meaningful impact on scientific understanding and medical practices.

AgreementModerate agreement

Most discussions show support for the idea that chloride, rather than sodium, plays a key role in hypertension, which aligns with the article's findings.

InterestHigh interest

The participants are highly engaged and curious about the topic, as evidenced by references to biochemical details and implications for health.

EngagementHigh engagement

Posts delve into scientific explanations, challenge traditional views, and discuss potential impacts on health policy, demonstrating deep engagement.

ImpactModerate impact

The discussions highlight the potential for a paradigm shift in understanding hypertension, indicating moderate to high influence on scientific and health communities.

Abstract in brief

  • Dietary sodium chloride is well-known to influence blood pressure, but recent evidence suggests chloride (Cl) may also play an independent role in regulating it.
  • Since most sodium comes from sodium chloride, sodium and chloride levels don't always match up, indicating chloride might affect blood pressure separately.
  • Understanding chloride's role could have important clinical and public health implications, helping us better understand how electrolytes influence hypertension and cardiovascular health.]

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Gymnosperm
@glehman11 · X

@mtobis It has been well known since the 1970's that it is not the Na+ that causes hypertension, but the Cl-. Just another case of institutional science getting it upside down. They just leave the "low sodium" printed folly because the result is the same. https://t.co/n7Q8l5Zjc6

Jul 28, 2022 · 539 followers View post →
Cloward-Piven citizen
@paulojsvaz · X

@RameseSanders sea salt is chloride + sodium. too much of each one creates their own diseases Not sodiun, but chloride indeed creates hypertension https://t.co/jzrOERQzX6 The hidden hand of chloride in hypertension

Oct 5, 2024 · 237 followers View post →
Katerina
@Jerichon_kat · X

The hidden hand of chloride in hypertension https://t.co/gvyHEqRnwM

Apr 26, 2019 · 131 followers View post →
Paulo Vaz
@SubatomicHealth · X

@SportDrinkCo Salt is NaCl which dissossiates into Na+ and Cl- These ions have different effects on body. Each one increases the risk of certain diseases: https://t.co/nqb5TZbJFf Our book «Why Cancer and Alzheimer are mutually incompatible?» will explain.

Jan 9, 2025 · 82 followers View post →
Paulo Vaz
@SubatomicHealth · X

@ChrisDeVocht_ Na+ and Cancer: https://t.co/j9Shiv0IUx Cl- and Hipertension: https://t.co/nqb5TZbJFf Cl- and T2D: https://t.co/B9PbVWUNUq

Jan 9, 2025 · 82 followers View post →
Paulo Vaz
@SubatomicHealth · X

@ValerieAnne1970 Blood pressure is due to Chloride and not Sodium https://t.co/nqb5TZbJFf

Jan 9, 2025 · 82 followers View post →

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Paulo Vaz
@SubatomicHealth · X

@SportDrinkCo Salt is NaCl which dissossiates into Na+ and Cl- These ions have different effects on body. Each one increases the risk of certain diseases: https://t.co/nqb5TZbJFf Our book «Why Cancer and Alzheimer are mutually incompatible?» will explain.

Jan 9, 2025 · 82 followers View post →
Paulo Vaz
@SubatomicHealth · X

@ChrisDeVocht_ Na+ and Cancer: https://t.co/j9Shiv0IUx Cl- and Hipertension: https://t.co/nqb5TZbJFf Cl- and T2D: https://t.co/B9PbVWUNUq

Jan 9, 2025 · 82 followers View post →
Paulo Vaz
@SubatomicHealth · X

@ValerieAnne1970 Blood pressure is due to Chloride and not Sodium https://t.co/nqb5TZbJFf

Jan 9, 2025 · 82 followers View post →
Paulo Vaz
@SubatomicHealth · X

@BenBikmanPhD Just came across your content. I would like to say in a respectful way, that you are wrong about «salt». Indeed «salt» is not Sodium only. It has also Chloride. And maybe Chloride, not Sodium, is the cause of IR and Hypertension https://t.co/nqb5TZbJFf

Dec 21, 2024 · 82 followers View post →
Paulo Vaz
@SubatomicHealth · X

@furniss_jon A biochemistry professor talking about salt as it was only sodium ? Salt is Na+Cl- and Cl- is the responsable for hypertension and TD2 https://t.co/nqb5TZbJFf Digesting Na+Cl- with water means double Cl- ppm relative to Na+. This flush bicarbonate and increase H+ on ECFluid.

Dec 21, 2024 · 82 followers View post →
Cloward-Piven citizen
@paulojsvaz · X

@RameseSanders sea salt is chloride + sodium. too much of each one creates their own diseases Not sodiun, but chloride indeed creates hypertension https://t.co/jzrOERQzX6 The hidden hand of chloride in hypertension

Oct 5, 2024 · 237 followers View post →
Gymnosperm
@glehman11 · X

@mtobis It has been well known since the 1970's that it is not the Na+ that causes hypertension, but the Cl-. Just another case of institutional science getting it upside down. They just leave the "low sodium" printed folly because the result is the same. https://t.co/n7Q8l5Zjc6

Jul 28, 2022 · 539 followers View post →
Katerina
@Jerichon_kat · X

The hidden hand of chloride in hypertension https://t.co/gvyHEqRnwM

Apr 26, 2019 · 131 followers View post →
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