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.
I'm gonna post a study that shows a really cool graph that goes like this in terms of survival and you go from low salt to high salt and basically it goes survival goes the longevity improves and the the best longevity is around 5 grams per day and then it just kind of levels off and Rises slightly past 5 grams a day of sodium which is 10 grams of salt per day at least
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if you look at the studies that are done and this is not in ketogenic diets there's an interesting study showing that this is epidemiology but the people with the best survival have a sodium not sodium chloride a sodium excretion of 5 grams a day which is equivalent to 10 grams sodium chloride per day so just for the general population there's pretty clear epidemiologic evidence that five grams of sodium in the urine a day which is a pretty good proxy for how much sodium they're taking in is ideal and that translates to 10 grams of salt a day
There's a very often talked about study that I can also try and link to in the show notes its epidemiology but it actually shows that the best survival is in people who are eating around 5 grams of sodium a day which is 10 grams of sodium chloride per day