If people with type 2 diabetes eat less salt, their bodies pee out about 38 millimoles less sodium in a day, which means they’re actually following the low-salt diet.

If you eat a lot of salt—like 18 grams a day for 10 days—your body will flush out more salt in your urine and also have a bit more salt in your blood, which proves you actually ate the salty food they gave you.

Cutting back on salt in your diet can lower your blood pressure a bit—about 5.6 points for the top number and 1.7 points for the bottom number—if you have type 2 diabetes.

If you eat a lot of salt—like 18 grams a day for 10 days—your body will pee out more salt and your blood will have a bit more salt too, which proves your body is responding as expected to the extra salt.

When people who don’t get high blood pressure from salt eat more or less salt, their kidneys adjust how much salt they pee out—no matter if they’re male or female.

Even though dapagliflozin lowered blood pressure, it didn't cause people with type 2 diabetes and healthy kidneys to excrete more salt in their urine when they ate a controlled amount of salt.