This article is not credible.
first of all, people lie about what they eat when they are told to “limit” something. Second, people who are told to limit something in their diet are told to do so because they don’t have the sense god gave a turnip to figure out on their own to limit it BEFORE their health gets whacked.
I would submit to you that the average couch potato could not possibly consume too little salt. When I was a young kid and also well into in my 20s I actually didn’t like salt. I never salted anything and my mom cooked without salt. I never suffered any ill effects and I was so active I sweat from the moment I got out of the shower in the morning until I was asleep in bed at night...and that was just in the winter.
The primary means of losing salt is via sweating and urinating. If a sweaty kid who never eats salty foods can’t get sodium deficient then no one can.
the only POSSIBLE effect I MAY have had from a low salt intake was that I sweat 3 or 4 times more than the normal amount...and drank water like crazy.
My sister was just admitted to the hospital yesterday with severe pneumonia, sepsis, low blood pressure and low sodium. She is an alcholic so that has weakened her immune system and I imagine has contributed to the low sodium, don’t know enough about sodium deficiency or why she has it. She’s in ICU since 3am lastnight when her blood pressure took another dive. She’s 57.
sweating 3 or 4 times than normal??..yuck...pass the salt