Sodium-sensitive hypertension is often exacerbated by a deficiency in dietary potassium and magnesium.

“when we think about sodium sodium sensitive hypertension people really worried about it in terms of their blood pressure most of it happens in the context of a relative absence of potassium and magnesium from the diet right so to complete just a complete absence from the diet right so in your body and in every other thing that you're eating potassium is inside the cells right and so when you start to process that that Matassa that potassium is is lost so in a highly processed diet is it working in a highly processed diet there's basically all that potassium falls out”