🧂🧠 Why Are Young People Getting Old People’s Diseases?

In recent decades, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in chronic, degenerative, and inflammatory conditions among young people, conditions once considered the domain of aging bodies. These include:

• POTS and dysautonomia
• Type 2 diabetes
• Infertility and early menopause
• Cognitive decline and brain fog
• Chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia
• Autoimmune diseases
• Hypertension and vascular dysfunction
• Osteoporosis and joint degeneration

🔹 1. The Salt Depletion Legacy

Older generations were the first to receive aggressive low-salt dietary advice, based on flawed assumptions about sodium and blood pressure. But their children and grandchildren inherited:

• Increasingly low-salt food environment
• The same anti-salt public health messaging
• Even more processed foods with “salt” but no minerals
• Higher rates of early-life stress, infection, and endocrine disruption

The result? Generational salt depletion and not just in diet but in biology.

🔹 2. The PF4–CXCR4–CXCL12 Axis: A Developmental Vulnerability

This axis is essential for:

• Stem cell migration and immune education
• Neurodevelopment and glial pruning
• Vascular patterning and repair
• Fertility, implantation, and placental signaling

In young people, this axis is still forming and calibrating. If disrupted early by salt deficiency, infection, or environmental stress, it may never fully stabilize. This can lead to:

• Premature immune aging
• Early vascular fragility
• Neuroimmune miswiring
• Hormonal collapse in adolescence or early adulthood

What we’re seeing is not just early onset disease, it’s developmental derailment of the body’s core signaling architecture.

🔹 3. Salt-Wasting Symptoms in the Young Are Misdiagnosed

Many young people report:

• Fatigue, dizziness, and brain fog
• Salt cravings and low blood pressure
• Palpitations and temperature dysregulation
• Menstrual irregularity and infertility

These are often dismissed as:

• “Anxiety”
• “Growing pains”
• “Lifestyle issues”
• “Idiopathic”

But they may reflect undiagnosed salt-wasting syndromes or axis collapse, especially in those with a family history of autoimmune disease, adrenal dysfunction, or early cardiovascular events.

🧠 Clinical and Policy Implications

• Salt repletion should be considered in young patients with unexplained fatigue, dysautonomia, or infertility
• Public health messaging must shift from “salt is bad” to “salt is context-dependent”
• Early-life nutrition and stress must be addressed as axis-shaping forces
• Axis screening (e.g., CXCR4 expression, PF4 levels, sodium status) could become a tool for identifying at-risk youth

We told generations to fear salt. Now their children are collapsing from its absence.

To tell the truth, these diseases weren’t even common in old people until this salt racket pretending to healthcare propped up dietary and lifestyle policies designed to do little more than sicken, cripple and kill those subject to them. 🖕