Worth Our Salt

In history, salt was valued as a commodity and used for trade. This is where the phrase “not worth his salt” comes from. Salt is critical for life. It is needed for the brain and aids digestion. The chloride in sodium chloride is used by the body to make acid used to digest proteins. Salt is important to avoid adrenal gland exhaustion and allows nutrients to enter the cells and waste materials to leave. The make up of salt water is almost identical to blood. It is what electrolytes really are. We cannot function without salt and a civilization cannot develop without salt.

What we buy at the store that is called salt is actually something that comes from the same batch as industrial salt and has been vacuum-refined and treated with caustic soda or lime to remove all traces of magnesium salts. Magnesium salts are vital, but they are removed to allow salt to flow out of the dispensor spout. Then chemical desiccants are added to keep it dry and bleached to make it white. This chemically treated commercial product is what we are using for table salt. The body cannot recognize it and It will no longer combine with human body fluids to do the badly needed work to maintain balance. It invariably causes severe problems of edema, or water retention, or dehydration as well as other health disturbances.

Commercially produced salt today is stripped of all trace minerals that our bodies desperately need. Without those trace minerals, the chloride and sodium that are left throw off balance in the body. What is left is contaminated with chemicals in order to make it white and pour out of the container easily. Be very discerning about the salt you are putting into your body. Prussiate, a yellow anti-caking agent sometimes added to allow salt to flow, is actually a form of cyanide. Any salt, including “sea salt” that we buy in most stores, that has been refined, has been dried by intense heat and re-crystalized losing it’s nutritional value in the process. Denatured salt has been isolated from the minerals that the body needs so badly. When we binge on snacks with incomplete salts that are not real food anymore, what the body is actually craving is the real salt that contains minerals from the Earth. But the salt in those salty snacks actually increases our mineral depletion, which then in turn kicks up our cravings even more in a viscious cycle of the body seeking what it really needs.

Real salt grows in crystal form and contains almost 100% trace minerals including calcium, boron, magnesium, gallium, germanium, gold, lithium, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, selemium, silicon, silver, sulfur, vanadium and zinc. When trace minerals exist in enough quantities, like natural salt was always intended to be, the chloride and sodium in salt crystals combine with those trace minerals in a way that make them beneficial. They are used properly by the body and do not accumulate to levels that cause health problems. It’s not the salt that is the problem, it is the way salt is being altered through the commercial process.

Fluid retention occurs when lymph glands and channels are not working properly due to poor electrolyte and water-soluable vitamin levels. Salt gets trapped in the subcutaneous layer between skin and muscle. Adding a liquid electrolyte supplement, a squirt of lemon juice and a pinch of real salt to drinking water can help. Do our body a favor and buy some real salt that has minerals in it from all over the Earth. When we use real salt, we won’t need to replace electrolytes as much as we do now.

Here are some suggestions of wonderful salts to gather and mix together.