Salt and Potassium: a New Theory

Low salt health recommendations have been clearly refuted as a myth, even though particular individuals don't seem to tolerate salt under their current state for other reasons. 

Salt is the edible mineral that has been used as a trade currency along with gold and silver. 
No matter what diet you are on, salt should be a part of it. 

The low protein diet of blue zones around the world all had high salt. (Fung and DiNicolanotnio, 2019)

Carnivore dieters generally recommend a lot of salt and other alkaline minerals. 
Some like the lion diet thrive on only beef and salt, like 10 grams a day.

DiNicolantonio in The Salt fix establishes many correlations world wide with high salt consumption and health, including for blood pressure and other conditions for which we are ill advised to stop using. I would add even more complicated conditions like kidney failure as I have observed personally. 

I am talking about natural unrefined salt, not pure white, with color in it to indicate the presence of other minerals. 
The basis of salt is sea water with land deposits having a variety of mineral soils mixed in. 
From  highest to lower amounts:

Sodium chloride the vast majority. 
Magnesium chloride
Potassium
Sulfur
Calcium
Up to 90 minerals in total with probably more roles that we know about. 
Aluminum at 34 ppm may seem high but it is most like aluminum silicate, or alum bound to silica, which is clay. That is stable and not coming apart. Clay captures many toxins. 

The proportions and synergies of these minerals in seawater have been used as blood transfusions. Such water straight out the ocean from the right places is sold as Quinton Water. It is exorbitantly expensive and not necessary as other pure salts will do for oral consumption as one of the cheapest health rejuvenators. I don't want to review salt sources or suggest any brands here. 

I don't think it is fully understood but here is how I put it together organized based on direct observation.  
The key issue of sodium potassium is that it determines what gets in and out of cells the nutrients that flow with water. This has been called the potassium sodium pump. 
Working with magnesium this is why hydration is key. 
With enough of these you can be allergic/intolerant to anything or everything depending how bad it is because you can't utilize nutrients that then may act like toxins. 
With my mother she did not tolerate anything until she had her potassium. 

You can even see insulin from this  point of view. 
If you can't get glucose into cells because this K Na pump is not working then you develop "insulin resistance" to store the sugar as fat or excrete if you can.
One to manage this is to go no or low carb. But as carnivores quickly figured out you still need salt to hydrate and get food in cells. Carbohydrates help hydrate if you have the cofactors to get them in cells that are more than sodium and potassium. 

The mechanisms of the K Na pump have been called osmotic pressure across a cell membrane based on electrical charge that is what you get if you look it up.  
From the AI "sodium potassium and the cell:

"Sodium and potassium ions are essential for proper cellular function, especially in animal cells. These ions, along with other electrolytes, help regulate several vital cellular processes, including: 
Maintaining cell membrane potential: Cells need to maintain an electrical difference across their membranes, and sodium and potassium play a crucial role in this process. The sodium-potassium pump actively transports sodium ions out of the cell and potassium ions into the cell, creating an ion gradient that is essential for the cell's electrical signaling."

The centrality of the cell membrane has been challenged by Gilbert Ling. He says the interal components of the cell determine how potassium and sodium are attracted and then used by proteins to structure water as a thick jell. 

Without going into alot of detail, suffice it to say that hydration invovles structuring of water with these minerals. 

Here is another thoney, rather escoteric, I can't confirm other than to say that these minerals do behave this way as if it is true, although there could be another explanation. 

Mega dosing salt I no longer needed a little extra potassium. 
These minerals don't necessarily need to be taken in balance even though they work together. 
This could be because salt actually transmutes into potassium in the cell. 

..."ells are producing potassium by fusing sodium and oxygen which is very energy demanding. The process is called cold fusion."  Although not necessarily for the reasons he says. From 
https://darkovelcek.wordpress.com/2022/08/09/fake-science-the-cellular-osmotic-pump/

The follwing observation lends support to the idea of transmution of sodium to potasisium. 
https://www.universeofparticles.com/2021/11/06/sodium-to-potassium-transmutation-in-the-human-body/
There is more sodium going in than being excreted and more potassium leaving than being taken in. Interpretation: Sodium transmutes into potassium. 

I always take the position that science in incomplete and that we can't arrive at explanatory certainty so sometimes it's good to get out of the rabbit hole and experiment. 
I take my cues from traditions that have worked for survival. Then I experiment to see what is true for me and all my individual variables. I know how to evaluate my feedback very quickly and to energetically test in the first place what to do. If you don't know what that is, find my writing on that. 

Experimenting with high levels of salt is worth a try. 
Not "I use salt on my food." Way beyond that. More like 10 grams. I know a guy who takes 50 grams a day and is really charged up. 
I have written about salt and edema recently, too. 
I can't give any advice in comments especially for complicated conditions that require more evaluation and strategy.