Salt — Vital Nutrient AND Hidden Killer
How much salt do we need?
4 min readJan 15, 2022
Welcome back to part 3 of my nutrition series. In part 1 we talked about the macros of our diet — protein, carbs and fat. Last time we covered the deeply unsexy but necessary topic of fibre. Today we’re going to discuss salt — why do we need it? We’ll also look at what getting too much and too little in our diet can do.