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“In short, salt’s function in the body is exactly the thing it’s been demonized for. “The ultimate physiological purpose of sodium intake is precisely the maintenance of blood pressure,” Robert Heaney, MD, wrote in Nutrition Today. “Demonizing sodium is not only unsupported by evidence but is counter-physiological as well, as it ignores sodium’s most basic function in mammalian bodies.”21”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“Bjorn Folkow, the pioneering Swedish hypertension researcher, made a compelling case that the overall stress on the heart and arteries was from the combined effects of heart rate and blood pressure, suggesting that salt restriction increased the combined effects of heart rate and blood pressure.41 In other words, low-salt diets would increase the overall stress on the heart and arteries and hence increase the risk of hypertension and heart failure.”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“As we’ve also seen, many people with normal blood pressure, prehypertension, and hypertension may even get a rise in their blood pressure if they restrict their salt intake.18 This is because when salt intake is severely limited, the body begins to activate rescue systems that avidly try to retain more salt and water from the diet. These rescue operations include the renin-angiotensin aldosterone system (well known for increasing blood pressure) and the sympathetic nervous system (well known for increasing heart rate).19 Clearly, this is the opposite of what you want to happen!”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“It says something about the ugliness of September 11, 1777, that this boy woke up a Lutheran and went to bed a Quaker.”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States