New Tag: Bipolar

There's information on a different site by me about the salt-lithium connection and you should read probably all of that site or large parts of it. It's got basic information on things like starting a health journal.

I have a salt wasting condition. A primary test for the condition is "How ridiculously salty is your sweat?" Mine? Saltier than normal people, not too bad for the condition in question.

I think historically a score below 40 was "normal" and a score above 80 was Cystic Fibrosis and that 40-80 range was an undefined gray zone. So then someone decided that zone is a milder form of CF. I scored 41.

So what's in my head is THIS:

1. Salt is adrenal support. (There's other stuff that supports the adrenals but SALT seems to be especially pertinent to bipolar pathology.)

2. Licorice comes from a salt-loving plant and is adrenal support.

3. There's a salt-lithium relationship of some sort.

4. Lots of Americans -- especially Black Americans -- get told their high blood pressure is their fault because they eat too much salt. I suspect that's not what's going on and telling them to restrict salt intake actively makes the problem WORSE.

5. Salt and cholesterol both get routinely vilified. Salt is adrenal support and the adrenals are hormone-producing organs and cholesterol is the precursor to every specific hormone I've personally looked up while writing this site.

6. The brain is the highest cholesterol organ in the body and builds 95 percent of it in house from B5. Like salt, B vitamins can be sweated out.

7. Parasitic infections promote allergies and allergies run the adrenals on high. There are other conditions that run the adrenals on high.

8. If you run the adrenals on high chronically, it negatively impacts the thyroid. Certain fats are thyroid support.

9. If you get your adrenals under control, your thyroid may still be running on high. This is known to cause mania.

If you are bipolar, I would recommend testing for allergies and parasitic infection, tracking salt and cholesterol and B vitamins and reading up on the brain and the thyroid and adrenals.

That's NOT a neat and solved answer. It's a quick and dirty place to START solving for X.

But I'm absolutely certain that is useful information for managing bipolar because I use it when my serious underlying medical condition causes various bipolar like symptoms.