In news:rec.food.cooking, Bryan > posted on Sun,
25 Nov 2012 16:49:25 -0800 (PST) the following:

> A certain minimum level of electrolytes like sodium and potassium are
> necessary for optimal health. The question is, "Do high levels of
> salt consumption negatively impact human health?" The article pointed
> out the the evidence just isn't there because the studies haven't been
> done. My doctor has never asked me to restrict salt. He has been
> adamant about never skipping a dose of BP medicine, and encourages
> weight loss and physical exercise. He is super-nerdy, and really
> stays up on the research, the ideal general practitioner.

Oh, I forgot to mention the study I read about in a regular layman
article. It reported that the study found that people who have a heart
attack but don't take blood pressure medication have an easier time
recovering from heart attacks than those who have taken blood pressure
medication. As one who believes in on-the-fly adaptation, if you leave
blood pressure unchecked, you COULD have a stroke, but you could, at the
same time, be strengthening your arteries, veins, vessels and capillaries,
making them either less likely to burst, or if they do burst, the damage
might not be quite as bad as it would be in a person whose veins are weak
due to the lack of "exercise" holding in all that pressure.

Damaeus