Fuck this ref <| sep |> What ' s a potato ? <| sep |> She ' ll make Chewie sounds right back at ya ! y 3 yRv 5 Jg 5 TI <| sep |> That ' s disappointing . It was such a good play . <| sep |> The role of sodium in high blood pressure is NOT as well understood as presented . Eating a lot of salt at once can cause a temporary rise in blood pressure at least in some people , sometimes , which is not harmful if temporary . Pathological hypertension is a persistently elevated blood pressure . All the time . It still varies , but the average is higher than what was deemed normal . The body DOES effectively , quickly excrete excess salt consumed in most cases to maintain a targeted blood concentration . But this doesn ' t prove that salt itself causes hypertension . Some studies simply couldn ' t find any correlation between salt intake and h y p e r t e n siontimetoendthewaronsalt . In fact they found those who ate a LOT of salt tended to have the healthiest blood pressure . 2752096 S a l t D O E S N T c a u s e h i g h b l oodpressurenewstudyclaims . htmlPeople with the lowest salt in urine which comes from reduced salt intake had higher overall mortalityBasic problem here people dismiss science that contradicts known facts , because they must be wrong , because we know the opposite to be true because someone established the truth in the 70 ' s . Lowsalt diet reduced blood pressure readings , but did NOT reduce mortality in the end . This could mean hypertension is only an indicator of the problem , but not THE problem . e . g . your car makes a ticking noise , but you can no longer hear the noise if you turn up the radio . And also mechanics are advising everyone to keep their radios loud to prevent ticking noises . What they DID find , and a solid theory goes like this TLDR it ' s mostly obesity 1 . High blood pressure often accompanies high BMI , a wellestablished health risk 2 . High salt intake often occurs in high BMI individuals , because a lot of less healthy food likes to use a lot of salt . But maybe the salt ' s not the problem here , the massive fat and carbs in it are . 3 . Even if you got blood pressure down by reducing salt intake , it may do nothing to improve your health and longevity . Lowering BMI would , though , even without a lowsalt diet . To add to the confusion , I ' ve heard a lot of anecdotal accounts at least that lowsalt diets intended to reverse or prevent high blood pressure would sometimes increase blood pressure , or cause negative symptoms . Not well studied , though .