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Eating too much salt is not only bad for our blood pressure and cardiovascular system, but can also adversely impact the energy supply of immune cells, rendering them temporarily dysfunctional.
E-Mail IMAGE: Increased sodium concentrations in the blood cause the mitochondria - the power plants of the cells - to temporarily produce less ATP. view more Credit: Felix Petermann, MDC For many of us, adding salt to a meal is a perfectly normal thing to do. We don't really think about it. But actually, we should. As well as raising our blood pressure, too much salt can severely disrupt the energy balance in immune cells and stop them from working properly. Back in 2015, the research group led by Professor Dominik Müller of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the...