Yes. It's one of the reasons high blood pressure is such a problem today. Years ago, the medical world claimed that salt causes high blood pressure and everyone should keep their sodium levels low.
This obviously has not worked - cases of high blood pressure have increased. And still, you're given the advice to cut out salt to prevent high blood pressure. Even today you're cautioned abou using salt, and doctors don't tell you about the benefits of drinking water, and yet, when you go into the ER, the protocol is to give you a saline IV which contains about 3 tablespoons of salt in a quart of water.
They know the importance of water and salt - they just aren't telling you. The theory goes thusly - excess salt holds too much water in the vessels like an overfilled balloon, putting too much pressure on the vessel walls. This is what they're calling high blood pressure.
But this is not how it works. What's really going on is this - blood is 94% water and salt. When you get dehydrated, the blood loses 8% of its water volume, causing it to thicken.
At the same time, the vessels constrict to take up the slack left by the water loss (the vessels must stay full. It's how the body maintains its blood pressure). This outs a greater workload on the heart to pump the thickened blood through the narrowed vessels, resulting in a raised blood pressure.
Doctors clam that people get too much salt from processed foods. This is a yes/no issue. They DO get a lot of unnecessary salt from processed food, but the body is designed to ake care of itself - it uses what it needs and discards the rest.
When the body DOES retain salt, it does so because when you won't give it the water it needs, it will hold onto extra salt because salt retains water, and this is the only option the body has to obtain the water it needs. People who retain water inn the extremities (edema) experience this process. The surplus water and salt that is being held in the legs and feet are earmarked for injection into dehydrated cells ONLY.
It is not used for anything else. This is also a survival instinct of the body when it is not properly hydrated. Increasing both the water AND the salt intake will lower blood pressure (or raise it if it's too low).
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