When healthy young men eat a lot of salt, their kidneys use the DCT part more to reabsorb sodium — even though the sodium pump in that area is less active — because more sodium is being filtered, so the kidney works harder there.

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

Randomized Controlled Trial

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2022 Feb 25

The study found that when young men ate a lot of salt, their kidneys got better at holding onto sodium unless they took a specific diuretic drug — and when they did take the drug, they peed out way more salt than when they ate less salt. This supports the idea that high salt makes the kidney’s sodium-handling system work harder.

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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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