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The Effects of Salt on Blood Pressure

High blood pressure or hypertension are the kind of the same thing. The actual like lining of your blood vessels are under more stress. Your body as a result tries to get rid of water so you actually start dehydrating yourself and that can happen. That's why there's a Nike out of a marathon runner with orange sweat. It's very risky even for this called hyponitremia which means not enough salt.

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