Jun 15, 2026 · 45 min · 13 segments
Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of our conversation with Sharon Hennessey—award-winning physiotherapist, founder of The Hypermobility Project, and…
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So for people who have high blood pressure or have a family history of such or have kidney problems, salt's not a great idea without checking with your medical team.
But for people with low blood pressure, which most hypermobiles have, dizziness or POTS, adding salt to your diet actually im- increases the amount of blood circulating in the body.
The way it does that is salt stays in your system, and sucks onto the water through an osmolarity process.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yep.
Okay? Um, so yeah, so salt, salt can be really useful in that, in that case.
Sharon, how much salt? Like, what are we talking about here? Are we talking like just sprinkle a little bit extra on your meal, or are we talking about actually take-
... a salt supplement?
That's a lot.
Yeah.
When we're thinking that our salt sort of, that would be a little, um, six teaspoons.
Yeah.
So for people who have high blood pressure or have a family history of such or have kidney problems, salt's not a great idea without checking with your medical team.
But for people with low blood pressure, which most hypermobiles have, dizziness or POTS, adding salt to your diet actually im- increases the amount of blood circulating in the body.
The way it does that is salt stays in your system, and sucks onto the water through an osmolarity process.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yep.
Okay? Um, so yeah, so salt, salt can be really useful in that, in that case.
Sharon, how much salt? Like, what are we talking about here? Are we talking like just sprinkle a little bit extra on your meal, or are we talking about actually take-
... a salt supplement?
That's a lot.
Yeah.
When we're thinking that our salt sort of, that would be a little, um, six teaspoons.
Yeah.
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