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What does extra salt do to your body- the planet’s tastiest mineral?-By Dr Harold Gunatillake Website:www.Doctorharold.com Transcript: During the migration in evolution from the sea to the land, we brought sea salt with us in our evolutionary phase. Human body contains many salts of which sodium chloride or table salt is the major one, making around 0.4 per cent of the body’s weight a concentration pretty well equivalent to that in seawater. So, a 50kg person would contain around 200g of sodium chloride, and that is 40 teaspoons. Sodium is a mineral your body cells need to work normally. It helps efficient function of nerves and muscles. Salt is essential to health. We can’t survive without it.Your body can’t make it, and your cells needs it for proper function, help muscles and nerve function and keep the body cells hydrated. New dietary guidelines came out with an upper limit of ...