What happens if you don't eat enough salt?

Answer 1

The proper anoint of salt i your body is essential to your health. It has a role in maintaining your blood pressure in the proper range, muscle and nerve function and in ince sodium is an integral part of nerve and muscle function, it is not surprising that too little or too much sodium in the body can affect both of these organ systems.

• Low levels of sodium (hyponatremia), can cause muscle spasms, cramps, headache, irritability, restlessness, nausea and fatigue. At very low levels there may be confusion, hallucinations, decreased consciousness and coma.
  
• Too much sodium, (hypernatremia), can make you lethargic or restless, hypernatremia, increased deep tendon reflexes, muscle spasticity and seizures.
  

Your body, specifically your kidneys, regulated the amount of salt. poorly funtioning or diseased kidneys do not do a good job of this task. Unfortunately sweat also deceases the amount of salt in an uncontrolled fashion. This can lead to problems related to low sodium levels as noted above.

Answer 2

Not eating enough salt is very good for your health. Salt is not needed for your good health. My kidney specialist friend call salt as white poison. Many cultures on the earth live without salt. Those people get no health problem at all. They do not get high blood pressure as well. Salt is needed only in hot tropical climate during summer. 3 grams added per liter of drinking water will do. Specially you stay out door. Salt you consume in your food is enough. If you want to take salt, then Himalayan rock salt is best. It gives you all the essential trace elements to counteract the toxic effects of salt on your body.

Answer 3

dehydration because Salt absorb water