/fit/I drink a lot of soups and tomato juices during the beginning of my diet and was wondering if too much salt if I'm having too much salt in my body?
Yes, if it isn't the low sodium variety of V8, and if you are enjoying canned soups, expect to be taking in roughly 10x the sodium you need.Switch to the low sodium varieties, drink excess water, or just eat real food.
As long as your parasympathetic nervous system works, your body will let you know when you're getting too much salt by making you feel thirsty. You'll just piss out the excess.Unless you have high blood pressure/heart disease, or you're wandering around in the desert for days without water, the salt content of food isn't even worth thinking about.
>>276759this.i wasn't aware that was a parasympathetic function, though. details?
>>276917Really it's the hypothalamus that determines thirst; the PSNS controls blood pressure.