Low-Salt diets and athletes
🧂🏃♂️ While most athletes don’t intentionally follow low-salt diets, some do so indirectly due to general health messaging, dietary trends, or medical advice. Here’s how it breaks down: 🧘♀️ Athletes Most Likely to Follow Low-Salt Diets Athlete Type Why They Might Limit
HFE H63D & VO2 max
SMOKE EM IF YOU GOT EM The HFE H63D is a single-nucleotide polymorphism in the HFE gene (c.187C>G, rs1799945), which results in the substitution of a histidine for an aspartic acid at amino acid position 63 of the HFE protein (p.His63Asp). HFE participates in the regulation of iron absorption.

