Is Salt really a "power ancient instinct" - or is it more like a modern SALARY? (the word salary is from roman soldiers paid in salt).

Salt appetite is linked to drug addiction, research finds

Date:: July 29, 2011
Source:: Duke University Medical Center
Summary:: A team of U.S. and Australian scientists has found that addictive drugs may have hijacked the same nerve cells and connections in the brain that serve a powerful, ancient instinct: the appetite for salt.; Cooking Practices and Health of Hunter-Gatherers / !Kung San

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Food is available in the Kalahari desert, and people spend an average of 32.5 ... The San have no salt and use no seasonings; on rare occasions, however, ...; Advanced level in the Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality book states, NO SALT in the diet!!; And yet the modern diet is all about salt.; It is quite shocking to believe the original human culture did not eat salt! We are told we will die without eating salt! haha. But plants have natural sodium in them.; You just need to eat tons of plants.; A GIGANTIC potassium to sodium ratio (K/Na): Bushmen cuisine is packed with potassium, and they don’t salt any of their food. They eat three times as much potassium and one sixth the amount of salt as the typical American.^{12, 13} That’s 50% more potassium and one third the sodium than even official recommendations! The K/Na ratio of 13 we got from !Xe’s Cronometer is very close to the paleolithic Na/K ratio of 16 estimated by researchers.¹¹ It absolutely destroys the average American K/Na ratio of .75