Our bodies evolved to handle very little salt because our ancestors, like hunter-gatherers, didn’t eat much of it—usually less than a gram a day.
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The Impact Of Modern Industrialized Dietary Sodium Intake On The Plasma Proteome.
The study assumes and uses a very low-salt diet similar to what ancient humans ate, which supports the idea that our bodies evolved with very little salt.
Blood Pressure in Four Remote Populations in the INTERSALT Study
The study looks at people living like ancient humans and finds they eat very little salt—sometimes less than a gram a day—and have healthy blood pressure that doesn’t go up with age. This supports the idea that our bodies evolved with very low salt intake.
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