The Story on Salt, Part I

Did You Know?
Symptoms such as digestive issues/constipation, low energy/fatigue, too much or dried mucous (congestion), and over time osteoporosis and other issues could be connected to a lack of good usable organic sodium. Shocking, isn’t it? Society has been so conditioned to lower salt intake that the message of good salt and how much we need it for good health has been totally lost. In fact, many people are suffering because they lack proper assessment and treatment. Most health care practitioners aren’t trained to look for it, and it’s so easy to reverse!

Our body is always striving to maintain its natural balance.

Salt is NOT Bad for Us?!
There is a real misunderstanding about salt. On one hand, our consumption of salt seems to be killing us. On the other hand, we cannot live without salt. So, in order to answer this loaded question we must first explore the differences between table salt and unrefined salt.

Table salt has been fired at 1500 degrees so that it is stable in most climates. Once this salt has been chemically cleaned and processed, it becomes inorganic and impossible for our bodies to digest.

Unrefined salt is unprocessed and is just like the sodium that occurs naturally in our bodies—it is essential to our daily lives and is most certainly good for us.

So to your body, table salt is like poison and unrefined salt is like nectar.

Salty Fun Facts
These fun facts come from one of my favorite books on salt by Dr. Hendel and Peter Ferreira, Water and Salt…The Essence of Life. I highly recommend this book! It takes more of a biophysics approach to the make up of salt than a chemical approach. I love that because biophysics studies how our bodies react to substances that we take in and the “reciprocal nature of living matter." Until recently, we’ve only been exposed to the chemical perspective which views salt simply as the chemical sodium chloride (which it is…chemically), assuming it to have the same effect in your body whether it is unrefined or not. So check this out!

1. The human body consists of two primarily elements…water and salt.
2. Water and salt, when combined with light can build proteins.
3. Our blood is a 1% sole (water & salt) solution which is the same concentration as the salt of the ocean. Now you know why you love to be in the ocean!