Sodium Benefits
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Sodium's benefits include:
- Sodium is needed to make gastric juice
Sodium is a really important component of hydrochloric acid – the powerful digestive juice inside the stomach that breaks foods down to enable it to be digested and absorbed. - Sodium plays an important role in maintaining healthy blood pressure
Sodium plays a very important part in maintaining normal and healthy blood pressure. Many studies have shown that high sodium intake (in the form of salt) is implicated in elevating blood pressure and causing hypertension (high blood pressure). Studies show that low-sodium diets help to reduce blood pressure in some people who have high blood pressure.
Sodium plays a very important part in maintaining normal and healthy blood pressure
- Sodium regulates acidity in the body
Sodium, together with the other electrolytes, but especially potassium, helps to regulate and balance the acidity (pH) levels in all the fluids in the body, to ensure they are at the right levels. Sodium and potassium achieve this by adding more fluid or removing fluid from the cells to get the right pH levels. - Sodium enables muscle contractions and nerve impulses
Sodium is necessary to to enable correct muscle contractions and nerve impulses, especially the nerves that instruct the muscles to contract.