Peter A wrote:
>
> To top it off, a lot of people, including a pitiful number of
> physicians, think that anyone with high BP (or who is trying to avoid
> high BP) should restrict salt. It's been known for quite a while that
> dietary salt (within reasonable limits) has no effect on BP for most
> people. There are a few people with salt-sensitive hypertension, but
> they are the exception.

Purely hypothetical, but-

about a year ago, I was regularly testing my BP at 170 / 120. I cut my
sodium intake by more than half for 6 months, and after all that,
continued to test at the same.

Wasn't the sodium...