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I found this after searching a bit more on salt and thought I would share it. It's a few paragraphs from the Men's Health magazine. - Sodium is an electrolyte, a humble member of that hyped class of minerals that help maintain muscle function and hydration; that's why sport drinks contain sodium. You're constantly losing sodium through sweat and urine, and if you don't replenish that sodium and water, your blood pressure may drop far enough to make you dizzy and light-headed. "Sodium acts like a sponge to help hold fluids in your blood," says Rikki Keen, R.D., an adjunct instructor of dietetics and nutrition at the University of Alaska.
However, people who chug too much water can lower their sodium levels so far that they develop hyponatremia, a potentially deadly condition more common among recreational exercisers than professional athletes, says Marie Spano, R.D., a sports nutritionist in Atlanta. Salt does more than just make our food taste good; without it, we'd die.
I think it's more about moderation, too much and it's bad, not enough and it's not good either. Im shocking with salt myself though, really need to cut down. Didn't realise until reading this this thread and this article just how much impact salt had until now.
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