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.
basically your probability of really bad things happen to you goes way up as you get towards a lot of sodium intake, 10, 12 grams per day. - Totally. - And this is translated to teaspoons of salt, et cetera. But also very low sodium intake is a problem. - No question about it. - So it's a, it's not a perfect U shape. It's kind of a J shaped curve, or a kind of hockey stick shape more or less.
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At fairly low levels of sodium, meaning at about two grams per day, you run fewer health risks, but the number of risks continues to decline as you move towards four and five grams per day. And then as you increase your salt intake further, then the risk dramatically increases.