If women with metabolic syndrome regularly eat a lot of salt—like 2400 mg or more a day—they might have more trouble managing their blood sugar, according to this claim. It’s like their bodies don’t respond as well to insulin, and this could be especially true for women.

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.

If you're an adult with metabolic syndrome and you regularly eat a lot of salt, your body might have trouble managing blood sugar because a key gut hormone doesn't respond the way it should after meals.

Eating too little or too much salt might both be bad for your heart — people who eat way less than 3,000 mg or way more than 6,000 mg of salt a day seem to have a higher chance of heart problems or dying from them.

For adults with slightly high or mildly high blood pressure who aren't on medication, strictly limiting salt to 2,000 mg a day for three months doesn't seem to lower the number of people who develop metabolic syndrome any more than just getting basic advice to watch their blood pressure.

Eating too much salt may raise your chances of getting high blood pressure—every extra gram of salt you eat daily is tied to a 16% higher chance of having high blood pressure.