Well, If the British can say water doesn’t hydrate, we can believe most anything.
No doctor here - not even a health care worker. Just someone who has seen friends and close family members deal with cardiac-related issues.
When someone easts a controlled diet - and see cardiac-related edema decrease - then see the edema return after one difference - too much salt... what are we suppose to think?
I think the real issue is that a majority of us have no ill effects from salt. Because some folks do, it all of a sudden becomes a blanket philosophy which is wrong on so many levels and is how the fascist government takes our freedoms one at a time by bringing out one or two cases and making laws because "we need to do something". I love salt and put a LOT on my food. 60 years old and BP is 110/60 on average. If salt caused hypertension the way some people believe, I would be in a world of hurt.