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I think the dangers of a high sodium diet are pretty well documented, especially in the west where they have very high obesity rates. I would take Dr. DiNicolantonio's advice with a "grain of salt" haha

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Documented in what way? All studies focus on people who already have heart disease. Just because sedentary couch potatoes on a high salt diet get sick does not prove causation from the salt. Everyone's body has built in regulatory systems to maintain isotonic balance and excrete the excess. We couldn't have crawled out of the sea without this fundamental ability. But, of couse, everybody knows salt is bad.

> Documented in what way?

Some of the most reputable organizations in medicine have documented the dangers of an high sodium diet.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/salt-and-sodium...

https://www.cdc.gov/salt/pdfs/children_sodium.pdf

There are still some people that believe that smoking doesn't cause cancer after decades of research. In the end you are free to believe as you wish. Godspeed

Sodium, while a main (50%) ingredient of salt, gets into us for example with the probably most popular ingredient ever, monosodium glutamate. I personally believe it's the excess of one polarity ion over another that's detrimental to our health.

Well, I've read that 2-3g per kg at once can actually kill you. It's even a method of suicide.

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