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Like the great majority of health advice, especially from governments, limiting salt is based on what is essentially either a misunderstanding at best or pure p
by holbrad 4y ago
Like the great majority of health advice, especially from governments, limiting salt is based on what is essentially either a misunderstanding at best or pure pseudo-science at worst.
First two studies I found when you google for Salt intake and all cause mortality. All cause mortality is in my opinion the only real metric that matters for this discussion. You can find studies on it increasing blood pressure temporarily but if it doesn't translate to death who cares (See Japan and Korea)
https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/492034#:~:text=No%20association%20was%20observed%20between,intake%20of%209%20g%2Fday https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/492034#:~:text=No%20.... (In dialysis patients)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33351135/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33351135/
*Not really expecting this to convince anyone, so low effort, but maybe people can acknowledge biology is complex and we don't have any idea about what any food really does. Hence so many studies showing different results because the signal is so weak.