Is sodium content a meme?

>>36691494
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt/

>>36691494
It's a fucking meme. You only need to watch it if you have kidney problems or you're dehydrating yourself before a show

>>36691494
Absolutely. If you live in a place where you have unlimited access to clean water, it is most definitely a meme.

No, sodium intake >1000-1500mg is undesirable for many reasons.

>>36692725
Ah yes, the reasonable argument that too much salt might kill you for reasons know by correlation, while ignoring that too little salt might kill you for other reasons know by correlation. And that the too little range actually overlaps with the too much range.

http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sodium-skeptics-try-to-shake-up-the-salt-debate/

>>36692757
More like many lines of evidence including various experimental models relevant to humans, while ignoring Salt Institute-funded methodologically bankrupt epidemiological studies that anyone with a functioning brain / some science education can see through.

>>36691494

If you get colon cancer and they remove your colon you can eat as much salt as you want because you won't absorb much of it anymore.

The primary "reason" people are told to reduce salt is blood pressure, but there are FAR more effective ways to lower blood pressure, such as removing processed food and not being a lazy fat-ass. Those methods are actually proven to prevent disease, versus salt reduction which reduces blood pressure without healing disease.

Like so much of medicine, it's cart before the horse. Heal the disease, not only the symptom.

>>36692895
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24401240
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22907057

>damaging your arteries and vasculature
>healing disease

>>36691494
for dipshits who failed biology, maybe

>>36691494
just fucking hydrate. If you keep pissing you release excess salt

Doesn't increased sodium lead to a higher retention of water weight, hence a net weight "gain"?

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>>36693583
You'll get water retention if there is some deficit in kidney function impairing pressure natriuresis (which high salt intake can cause over time). This increases blood and lymph vessel volume the most, but ECM can also break down and cause mild edema.