Excess sodium, its not just the high blood pressure

[Aldous]

Excess sodium might be doing damage even before you have symptoms of high blood pressure.

Check out these articles. I knew about the effect of sodium on blood pressure for a long time, but from what I figured out recently, it appears to be a lot more important than I thought before.

Sodium, Blood Pressure, and Cardiovascular Disease
Further Evidence Supporting the American Heart Association Sodium Reduction Recommendations
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1...013e318279acbf

USC study showing loss of salt and body fluid stimulates kidney regeneration in mice, suggests new therapeutic approach to chronic kidney disease.
https://stemcell.keck.usc.edu/to-reg...pass-the-salt/

The body needs only a small amount of sodium (less than 500 mg per day) to function properly.
https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-liv...-i-eat-per-day

Tips for extreme low sodium diet
https://www.reddit.com/r/LowSodium/c...w_sodium_diet/

Also search for "no salt" and "low sodium" on amazon and Ebay.

[BigJohn]

Where I live, it seems most of the food is loaded with salt and/or sugar.

[Podshell]

What I read from Mercola seems well informed. (I have always used very little but buy the pink Himalayan one now)

https://foodfacts.mercola.com/himalayan-salt.html

"Managing Sodium and Potassium Levels Can Make a Difference
Many experts have suggested that consuming as little salt as possible is good for your health. However, there are major drawbacks to this train of thought. While consuming too much salt is definitely dangerous for your body, there are also health risks attributed to a major decrease in salt intake.

According to a study published in the Lancet, while high-salt diets were linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular events and death in hypertensive populations, low-salt diets were alarmingly also connected to a higher possibility for cardiovascular events like heart attacks, stroke and deaths in people with or without hypertension."

[Aldous]

The thiazide receptor is a sodium-chloride transporter that pulls NaCl from the lumen in the distal convoluted tubule. Thiazide diuretics inhibit this receptor, causing the body to release NaCl and water into the lumen, thereby increasing the amount of urine produced each day.[6]

Thiazide diuretics are primarily used to treat the hypertension (high blood pressure) and edema (swelling) caused by water overload as well as certain conditions related to unbalanced calcium metabolism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiazi...m%20metabolism.