The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
when you eat salt the salt concentration in your blood goes up you get thirsty and you start making fructose in your body from the glucose you've been eating and then that fructose appears to be enough that over time it's actually driving the metabolic syndrome as well as sugar
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our group discovered that when you give a salty diet to animals that they actually start producing fructose in their body so salt salty foods turned out to be another way to stimulate fructose production and when you give salt chronically to animals they get high blood pressure they get hypertrophy of their heart and they also develop metabolic syndrome they develop obesity insulin resistance and everything that may seem surprising because uh we don't think of salt is driving obesity it's non-caloric but actually there's data in humans that high salt diet also increases the risk for obesity and insulin resistance besides hypertension