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Reducing sodium intake. You will instantly lose weight, feel less sluggish, have more energy etc. By simply reducing the amount of sodium in your diet you are increasing your chances of living longer. Over 500,000 deaths each are from complications with high sodium levels causing health problems.

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I don't doubt that you might have benefited from a reduction in sodium intake but most people won't. The majority of people are not hypersensitive to sodium[1]. Limiting salt to some arbitrarily low number can have negative side effects, for example, my vegetable consumption went up dramatically when I let go of my anxiety over putting salt on them.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...

Keep in mind that fast food companies and a large share of food manufactures thrive on using high amounts of sodium in their processed foods to increase shelf life and improve margins (i.e. from factory until bought by consumer). I don't doubt the validity of that research, but I would be interested to see who funded it. And of course all humans need sodium to maintain a healthy balance, but many foods we eat today unexpectedly have excessive amounts of sodium in them.

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