The palate adapts just as well to less salt as it does to less sugar. You begin to notice it within a week. There are literally hundreds of ways of adding flavour to food when you count all the herbs and spices, vinegars, lemon juice, and flavourful toppings. After your taste buds have adapted, many normal foods taste unpleasantly salty. We cannot find volunteers for formal scientific trials to determine the exact level of salt in the diet needed to control vertigo, but the substantial reduction provided by the salt guideline would eliminate fluid shifts in the body, which can in turn cause vertigo if the fluid balance in the inner ear is affected.
Salt causes fluid retention, varying throughout the day with fluctuating intake.
The Salt Skip Program doesn t provide enough sodium to start a cycle of variable fluid retention. Diuretic tablets accelerate the loss of fluid and sodium, but during the fluid shift some people may still have an attack of vertigo. If vertigo persists, the diet is probably not low enough in salt. You can do this by asking your doctor to order a 24-hour urine collection to measure how much sodium you excrete. A blood test will not measure sodium intake, because healthy kidneys keep blood sodium levels constant within narrow limits.