Articles like this are just bizarre - there's this whole genre of "I did this very mildly unhealthy thing for a week and experienced these totally real and defi

Articles like this are just bizarre - there's this whole genre of "I did this very mildly unhealthy thing for a week and experienced these totally real and definitely not-a-placebo health effects even though the negative effects usually take half a lifetime to manifest" that try to reinforce the idea that there's some perfect right clean way to eat that will ensure excellent health forever. This one is that, doubly so - it seemed to be mostly concerned with the effects of sodium, when there's not much evidence for any downside to high sodium consumption except for some sodium-sensitive individuals, and it's not clear that the author actually exceeded recommended values for daily consumption or even really increased their sodium intake all that much.