Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Boosting potassium may lower blood pressure more ...

While cutting back on salt intake has long been a mainstay in treating high blood pressure, new research suggests that upping potassium intake might have a greater effect. It might be time to stock up ...

The negative health effects linked to salt, such as the increased likelihood of high blood pressure or strokes, are often, research suggests, largely down to the presence of sodium. Many of the new ...

If you're one of the many Americans trying to reduce the sodium in your diet, potassium chloride may help do the trick, dietitians say. But some people need to be careful when adding this to their ...

In a recent review published in the journal Hypertension Research, a group of authors compared global dietary sodium and potassium intake guidelines with Japan's, highlighting the importance of ...

A call to include recommendations on low-sodium potassium-enriched salt in hypertension treatment guidelines has been made by an international group of experts today in the American Heart ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. For the past few ...

Sodium is everywhere in our diets. We asked experts for the bottom line on its health risks. By Alice Callahan Without sodium, you wouldn’t be able to survive. Nerves would fail to fire; muscles ...