Dietary sodium and potassium intake

How much potassium or magnesium would be needed in the diet to offset the blood‑pressure effects of sodium, and can trace minerals in specialty salts provide that amount?

Decades of clinical trials and meta-analyses show that meaningful blunting of sodium’s blood‑pressure (BP) effects requires gram‑level potassium intakes (roughly 1.9–4.7 g/day in trials) and hundreds ...