Well functioning kidneys will handle moderate excess sodium with no issues. Remember hackers, population statistics and outcome studies help with diagnostics bu

Well functioning kidneys will handle moderate excess sodium with no issues. Remember hackers, population statistics and outcome studies help with diagnostics but do not have to tell you how to treat your specific body. It's in one's best interest to know your unique makeup: kidney function, liver function, IQ, testosterone levels, neurotransmitter levels, genetic fingerprint via 123AndMe or other, etc. Stats are only decent guides from an expected value metric if you consider yourself equally probable in the population distribution. But you aren't, you can find out all the above priors with some work..a pain in the ass but well worth it considering the time that health issues can take from you in the future. So take some time to do some mental psychometrics and physical biometrics on yourself. It's always worth it to be better able to see which science applies to you even when the science is results from totally uniform population.