Add Salt to Your Food Daily - Despite What Your Doctor Says
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Salt is an essential nutrient required for blood pressure regulation, transportation of nutrients into and out of your cells, ion exchange, and brain-muscle communication.
Decades of scientific research have failed to show the benefits of a low-salt diet, and in fact tend to show the opposite. Low-salt (DASH) diets are associated with higher cardiac risk across multiple studies.
The primary original study responsible for the "sodium myth" did not control for fructose consumption, which is a major factor contributing to heart disease.
All salts are not equal, in terms of their impact on your health.
