When healthy young men eat a lot of salt for a week, their daytime blood pressure goes up a tiny bit — but their nighttime pressure and overall 24-hour pressure don’t change, meaning their bodies mostly handle the salt fine.

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Dietary sodium intake does not alter renal potassium handling and blood pressure in healthy young males

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2022 Feb 25

The study gave young men a lot of salt and found their daytime blood pressure went up a little, but their nighttime and overall blood pressure didn’t change — just like the claim said.

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Dietary sodium intake does not alter renal potassium handling and blood pressure in healthy young males

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DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfaa381

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