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Anon sees through the lies (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

35g of salt can be a lethal dose for a human of about 70kg, so no one's going to last too long on this diet.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    LD50 for a human of 70kg is 210g (3g salt per kg of human), so it seems rather unlikely that it will be lethal short-term (though always possible). It mostly becomes lethal when you don't have any water that's actually hydrating.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I think you may be thinking of the LD50 for rats. People have died from much less than 3g/kg.

    The lethal dose was estimated to be less than 10 g of sodium (<5 teaspoons of salt) in two children, and less than 25 g sodium in four adults (<4 tablespoons of salt).

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5537768/

    An acute toxicity from excess sodium intake with the possibility of fatal outcome has been reported in relation to the ingestion of huge amounts of sodium, such as 0.5–1 g of salt/kg body weight.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3951800/

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