Why is it bad to eat more salt? Won’t that just make us more thirsty, and then the liquid rinses out the salt from the body?

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Why is it bad to eat more salt? Won’t that just make us more thirsty, and then the liquid rinses out the salt from the body?

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Because your body needs a certain concentration of salt for proper cellular function. If you ingest too much salt your body will retain more fluid to dilute the salt in your body. This will cause higher blood pressure because you have more fluid in the same volume.

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