Question about salt intake

[repoman]

Trying to make this bare bones.

Let's say use this for an average moderately healthy middle aged person who much of the time eats a fairly low amount of salt (by current oversalted standards) and then binges on salty popcorn and nachos a couple days a week.

Now, when the salt level is pissed out during low consumption times and gets to a normal range, what compensatory overhang is still occurring in the body? What hormones have been pushed out of wack to get the salt pissed out?

Is some of the negative effect of salt from the body's efforts to remove it?

 

[rousseau]

I always thought the body dealt with salt with osmosis.

Eating salty foods causes the blood stream to draw water into it to relieve osmotic pressure, which dehydrates us and causes us to drink more fluid. When we drink more fluid this creates tension in the opposite direction and we re-hydrate.

I'm not aware of why too much salt is bad, but I'd imagine if you're moderate about it most of the time it's likely not doing much to the body.