This Salt REDUCES Strokes & Death

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]People eating the salt lower in sodium had 12% lower risk of dying looking at 21,000 people over 5 years. Potassium chloride, it tastes salty and not only does it not raise blood pressure, it actually helps lower. Potassium helps the body excrete sodium and it can also relax the blood vessel walls directly. A large randomized trial looking at 21,000 people over 5 years. They replaced people's [music] salt to be lower in sodium and higher in potassium. People eating the salt lower in sodium had 14% less strokes and [music] less cardiovascular events in general and even 12% lower risk of dying. Only 25% of the sodium was replaced. They don't change anything else about the diet, they just swapped the type of salt [music] and it's still salty and yet they reduced their overall risk of death. Check out the full video linked in the description.