Eating more salt won’t make your blood pressure stay high over time if you’re otherwise healthy — your body adjusts and keeps things in balance.
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The Impact of High Dietary Sodium Consumption on Blood Pressure Variability in Healthy, Young Adults.
This study gave people a lot more salt than normal for 10 days and found their blood pressure didn’t go up — which means the claim that salt doesn’t cause lasting high blood pressure in healthy people is supported.
This study gave healthy people a lot of salt for 10 days and found their blood pressure didn’t go up, even temporarily. Since long-term high blood pressure usually starts with short-term spikes, this suggests salt might not cause lasting high blood pressure in healthy people.
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