Do you crave salt? Do you put salt on your food? Do you love salty nuts, potato
chips or French fries, popcorn, pretzels, cheese puffs, or other salty snack foods?
Chances are, you are eating the wrong kind of salt!
Natural Salt
Salt, as it occurs in the Earth, is a complex crystal containing eighty-four elements
that are vital to life. These include hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sodium,
magnesium, silicum, chloride, calcium, titanium, chromium, manganese, iron,
copper, zinc, selenium, zirconium, silver, iodine, platinum, gold, and many more. As
salt moves through the ecosystem, salt nourishes plants and animals, supporting all
life.
These nutrients are the same elements originally found existing in the “primal
ocean” where all life originated, and the same elements our bodies need for good
health.
Table Salt — Industrial Sodium Chloride
What is sold as table salt for us to eat is actually a product of industrial production.
About 93 percent of salt production worldwide is used directly for industrial
purposes. It is essential to make products such as laundry detergent, varnish,
plastics and other products.
For these industrial uses, chemical processes require pure sodium chloride. To
obtain sodium chloride, all the essential minerals and trace elements are removed
from natural salt and discarded as impurities.
The remaining sodium chloride is used to preserve foods inexpensively, which is
why so many ready-to-eat food products are heavily “salted” with sodium chloride.
The sodium chloride inhibits the natural breakdown of the food, increasing its shelf
life of foods that would naturally spoil very quickly. Since foods break down in our
bodies with the same processes nature uses to break foods down outside of our
bodies, sodium chloride in food products also makes them more difficult to digest.
Sodium chloride is fine for factories, but it doesn’t belong in our bodies!
It is an unnatural, isolated substance that is nothing like the living salt found in
Nature.
Our Bodies Contain a Living Sea
Our bodies contain the same salty liquid as that of the primal sea–a fluid
consisting of water and salt. This flows through more than 56,000 miles of
waterways and blood vessels, regulating and balancing the functions of our bodies.
To replenish this sea, our bodies need natural salt. While our bodies require only
0.007 ounces of whole, natural salt per day (that’s about 1/25th of a teaspoon), we
could eat sodium chloride–with only two of the eighty-four essential elements–all
day long and still be deficient of the nutrients we need from real salt.
Nutrient-deficient Sodium Chloride Makes Our Bodies Crave Real, Natural Salt
Because our bodies need natural salt, when we eat less than 0.007 ounces of natural
salt per day, a salt craving kicks in. When we eat sodium chloride, it contains none
of the nutrients our bodies need. Craving the nutrients found in natural salt, we eat
more and more sodium chloride and set up a vicious cycle that results in more and
more cravings.
Whether or not we are aware of the dangers of sodium chloride, our bodies
recognize sodium chloride as an unnatural substance–a poison–and try to
eliminate it as quickly as possible. The problem is, we eat more salt than our bodies
can process out. Here in the United States, our average daily consumption of table
salt is between 0.4 ounces and 0.7 ounces. Our bodies are only able to excrete 0.17
ounces to 0.25 ounces a day through our kidneys, depending on our age,
constitution and sex.
Our bodies then try to neutralize whatever sodium chloride is left in the body by
surrounding it with water molecules in order to break it down into sodium and
chloride. For this process, our bodies take water from our cells. Without water, our
body cells die.
The result is edema, or excess fluid in the body tissue. This is why doctors tell us to
avoid salt.
If there is more sodium chloride in a body than it can neutralize by pulling water out
of cells, the body get rids of the excess sodium chloride by binding it with uric acid
to form new crystals. These are deposited directly in the bones and joints and are
known as arthritis, gout, and kidney and gall bladder stones.
The Natural Salt Solution
When we eat natural, living salt, which contains all it’s original elements, our bodies
receive the 0.007 ounces of actual salt it needs to thrive. A little goes a very long
way to creating good health.
Because natural salt provides the elements the body needs, the body no longer
craves salt and the natural balance of salt intake and elimination is re-established.
Ills caused by excessive intake of sodium chloride disappear. You can enjoy the
enhanced flavor of foods with salt that will add to your good health, naturally.
Hilde Bschorr is the Owner of Himalayan Living Salt, an online purveyor of natural, unrefined, living salt products.
