Dustin,

On every controversial medical topic you will find folks explaining why the other side is wrong. Its tricky to find the truth.

Peer review science is our best bet, but even that often requires someone to help us understand it (unless we have lots of time).

Here is a good piece on Salt: https://medium.com/@dan-o/e89c2a31d325?responsesOpen=true&source=email-5358356385a8-1727534007878-activity.response_created-------------------------09aabc20_fffb_4462_87e5_3048e2cb7fa5

References to the peer reviewed journal articles are at the end. I think the case against salt is pretty strong --- specifically the case that it causes hyper-tension is strong.

and if you like paleo stuff ... well know that our ancestors ate very little salt as it was simply not available.