How did hunter-gatherers get enough salt in their diet?

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Did they just find salt on the ground and lick it? Did they drink animal blood? Did they drink ocean water (I hope not)?

I’ve always wondered this since I was a little kid.

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You need a shockingly small amount of sodium to survive. Hunter-gatherers we’re quite small compared to the average modern human so their intake could’ve been slightly less. Almost all living things require sodium to exist and therefore almost all food has some sodium content. Meat would’ve probably been the main source of sodium.

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