Researchers have found that eating too much salty diet weakens your immune system and makes it harder for your body to fight off bacterial infections.
For the findings, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the research team fed mice a high-salt diet and found more severe bacterial infections.According to the researchers, this finding is unexpected, as some studies point in the opposite direction.
"We were able to show this in mice with a listeria infection," said study lead author Katarzyna Jobin from the university of Wurzburg. We had previously put some of them on a high-salt diet. In the spleen and liver of these animals, we counted 100 to 1,000 times the number of disease-causing pathogens.
