Do the Opposite of What (((They))) Tell You
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Talking before that, hunter gatherer times, why is it always so hard for you to grasp basic things?
Even if we never had an abundance of salt before, the salt we consumed, as far as I am aware, has not been modified to be addictive or habit-forming. Thus, over consuming salt would be hard to do spontaneously.
As consequence, eating high-salt junk food will maximize intake + retention. That there is the danger.
This problem is not observed from eating from raw ingredients because naturally prepared food is not high-insulin-responsive like junk food, so excess sodium intake is not coupled with excess retention. Instead, any excess is easily eliminated by the body using normal biological processes.
That said, you will need to investigate precisely the consequences of "salting everything" and what that specifically constitutes.
From what I encountered, the body's homeostatic mechanisms can deal with excess salt intake much better than salt deficits.
I have concluded that it is not so much excess salt intake that drives many biological problems but excess salt retention that does. And one of the biggest drivers of excess salt retention is insulin resistance as chronically elevated levels of insulin will constantly signal the kidneys to retain sodium, thus, eating plenty of sodium in this state will skyrocket BP.
In fact, this mechanism is used by the body when cutting out salt: it will induce insulin resistance in time to increase insulin interaction with the kidneys to retain enough salt to cancel out any salt-free efforts.