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If you were to eat lets say a pound of salt (probably lethal). You probably would have to be rushed to the ER. Your body can only process things so fast and dea
by anfilt 8y ago
If you were to eat lets say a pound of salt (probably lethal). You probably would have to be rushed to the ER. Your body can only process things so fast and deal with changes so quickly. Obviously, a person would not eat a pound of salt in one sitting. So you body can not dump any excess salt. It can dump excess to a point.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoYou argument is pointless. Nobody would voluntarily consume that much salt. The same as nobody will drink sea water unless desperate. Once past the point of satiation you would have no desire for more. Hypernatremia will still be a long way off in normal healthy people.
- tomhoward 8y agoYour claim was that, for practical purposes, it's not possible to have too much salt, as your kidneys will process any excess. The respondent's point was that there is a threshold at which the amount of salt ingested is too much for what the body can handle. Obviously a pound is an unrealistic extreme, but it illustrates the point: there is a threshold. More realistically, it would not be unusual for somebody to have a daily salt intake that is a little over the threshold of what the kidneys can easily handle, and bit by bit, harm can develop, just as is the case with too much sugar, too much fat, too much alcohol, or too much of anything in any organic system.
- jplayer01 8y agoThe kidneys (in a healthy state) are able to cope with far more salt than anybody in modern civilization eats or will ever eat in a day. It's not worth talking about the limit (it's in the tens of grams, far above the <10g that majority of people consume).