science

I meant queue, not cue. It's a pun. It means that ketobros usually have a list of bad arguments, like a playlist. I usually fill my bingo card in 1-2 comments.

though not at all a recent one

go on, how old is it?

The downsides of slight-to-moderate overindulgence of salt, mostly high blood pressure through water retention, can be offset by a more active lifestyle. (Sweat more, hydrate more, flush the excess out.)

The downsides are many more. The hypertension is just the tip of the iceberg. And "sweating it out while working" is a weak excuse, especially irrelevant today.

You're trying to make it into some huge necessity at a dose you don't even comprehend, you just assume that it has to be high. We already know that the very processed stuff is bad and it's usually full of salt. That's because salt is both a preservative and it makes food hyperpalatable, thus making it more marketable, more tasty, more desirable. That alone should tell you that salt isn't naturally common. The brain turns up those excitement responses for stuff that is rare: salt, sugar, fat, all in high density. Our tongues are so sensitive to salt intake that we literally adjust our taste.

In terms of natural herbivores, I'll have to remind you that salt licks don't grow as formations in grasslands or forests.

Ketobros love to defend salt because salt is very important to them. It's a preservative, and preserving meat is an old practice. Add salted cheese or butter for extra. And few carnivore/lion diet types eat unsalted raw meat, like... lions.

And then we have these people: http://www.scielo.br/j/abc/a/8yHr8tMsx5hB6s3sbQZRzKC/?lang=en (note: these people are being cleansed from the Amazon now by ranchers, feed growers and miners)

Stop trying to make it harder than it looks.