In the meantime, keep an eye out for excess sodium and adjust your intake accordingly.

According to the CDC, excess sodium can increase your risk for a heart attack or a stroke.

Also called "water pills," they help the body shed excess sodium and water to lower blood pressure.

The most significant effect that excess sodium has on the heart is hypertension.

The above attributes are consistent with a hormone which is relied upon to unload both excess sodium and potassium.

But two patients who drank a lot of the salty broth were hospitalized a few years ago for dehydration and delirium caused by excess sodium.

But when you have high blood pressure, it starts to damage the kidney and that makes it harder to get rid of excess sodium.

Decreased blood flow to the kidneys hinders their ability to remove excess sodium from the body.

While the kidney reacts to excrete excess sodium and chloride in the body, water retention causes blood pressure to increase inside blood vessel walls.

As excess sodium is excreted by the kidneys, blood pressure drops accordingly.