Is Sea Salt Good For You

Today we Get into Salt, a fun subject filled with many opinions, many sales tactics, and a long history all to get to the question

Is Sea Salt Good For You?

I hope you love the video and enjoy the detailed written post too! 🙂

To so many people salt is looked at and called “the spice of life”, saying we should “take all with a grain of salt”, it has been revered and deemed of great value for literal ages! When we look at the properties, effects, and supposed benefits of salt it’s no wonder why it has played such a large role in our history. From the many varieties of “sea salt” to mined “rock salts” all the different characters and colors of salt available have been used to preserve, pickle, dry, and stimulate the taste buds!

When you really think about it before we started tilling the earth and digging up tubers, harvesting grains, and cooking our food (less than 1% of our time on the planet) we have been eating whole fresh ripe raw foods that didn’t really require anything to “pep” them up! Eating seasonally from the abundance nature has to offer in our ideal habitat the need to store, and preserve, pickling is basically a non-necessity. Moving outside of our natural environment has in part caused us to degrade over to a comparatively bland diet made up of cooked starches and meats, adding salt makes that otherwise relatively bland food taste good!

The hook is the more salt you use the more hooked you become to using it. The processed food industry uses this to its advantage, more so in the past before people knew the dangers of a high-salt diet. Most processed foods are high in some form of salt and some form of sugar, usually, the cheapest ones that the public accepts. The nature of these foods is to stimulate while underdelivering nutrients, creating a “need” to eat more and more and more.

I feel we have stepped away from the original question posed, Is Sea Salt Good for you?

Most people know iodized salt isn’t so healthful, save to ward off iodine deficiency, in fact, most people today understand that ingesting salt can deeply impact almost all biochemical pathways in your body. When most people talk about salt they are thinking of Sodium Chloride, the principal component of common table salt. Sodium chloride, NaCl, and water, H2O, are formed by the neutralization of sodium hydroxide, NaOH, a base, with hydrogen chloride, HCl, an acid: HCl+NaOH?NaCl+H2O. Sea salt is not so different, obtained by the evaporation of seawater or mined from old sea beds and caves (rock Salt). Its mineral content gives it a different taste and slightly different chemical composition from table salt. The additional minerals include Sulfate, Magnesium, Potassium, and Calcium among other trace minerals.

Is Sea Salt Good For You

The minerals, I eat salt for the minerals! This is often the call made to convince people to eat sea salt, but is sea salt good for you in terms of mineral intake?

Despite the known dangers of a high salt/sodium diet (listed below), the minute mineral content of sea salt is driven in as a really good reason to eat this otherwise toxic stimulant. I find it strange that we would eat a known poison to get a small amount of minerals when perfectly healthy whole foods contain the minerals we need in abundance! Chew a few more greens and rejoice in eating one of the highest mineral-content foods per calorie on the planet!

Let’s look at those Minerals anyhow

Inorganic minerals as found in all types of sea and rock salt were never living, they come without carbon and cannot bring life to cells. The body treats these inorganic minerals like toxins that must be, to the largest extent, eliminated at cost of vitality and cellular health. The covalent bonds are tightly held together and thus they cannot be easily broken down, due to this they can become deposited in the joints and tissues if they are not eliminated leading to stiff achy joints. Contrary to the electrons in the human body, their electrons spin counter-clockwise, out of sync.

Organic minerals were once living, or are living and can bring life to cells. These contain carbon, often carbohydrate and their electrons spin clockwise, just like those of the human body. Additionally, these cells can form an ionic bond with the body and can easily break down into materials to help with bodily function, such as tissue repair. It’s interesting to note the vibratory rate of organic minerals is comparable to tissue and cells. Inorganic minerals are not.

Inorganic minerals as they exist in nature are found in the soil and water, and organic minerals, on the other hand, are found in plants and animals. Only plants (with the help of bactria) can transform inorganic minerals into organic minerals. As inorganic minerals are useless and to a large degree injurious, animals must eat plants or plant-eating animals to obtain their organic minerals.

An example of this is arsenic. Arsenic in the chemical, metal or inorganic state can be a lethal poison, however, when found in organic form in fresh celery and asparagus it is healthful.

Rock minerals are indeed healthful for plants, that is in the growing and creation of healthful plants and the fruits thereof! I would encourage the use of rock dust and such as an option for a great mineral-rich garden! With the help of bacteria around the root hairs of plants, inorganic minerals are converted into organic minerals (mineral + carbon ) that can become a part of the cell structure of plants including carbohydrates.

Beyond this scientific look into the validity of Sea Salt and the minerals therein,

I like to look at common sense.

is sea salt good for you use common sense

For one, if you are dying of thirst and you drink sea water, you will die! Why is this? Because salt is extremely dehydrating. It sucks the moisture out of your tissues to try to create a balance between the sodium and potassium inside and outside of your cells, immediately you are thirsty and must drink water in order to regulate the hydration levels within and outside of your cells. The body’s solution to pollution is dilution, have some salt and you will need to dilute it quickly.

Pour salt on a cut, or a slug, actually don’t, we all know what happens, it burns in the case of the hand and kills the slug. What does it do to your insides? Used for pickling and preserving food, does that make sense to take into our temple? The Samurai used to commit suicide by ingesting an ounce of salt, that’s all it took. These days because of our average salt consumption it may take up to 2 ounces.

Some people say we have been using it for a long long time, it’s revered and thought to be sacred in some cultures. So have drugs, violence, cruel rituals, and prostitution, just because something has been used by cultures for a long time or is seen as sacred doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a great thing. Using common sense looking from as many angles as possible while paying attention to nature’s design works every time!

Taking some time away from eating salt one can easily notice the negative effects of eating even a minute amount of sea salt. Immediate dehydration, physiological stimulation, and a want to use more, salt dulls the senses and reduces the ability to taste subtler flavors as you can see in the video A puffy bloated look due to the body sucking up water to dilute the salt. For a time after consuming overt salt (sea salt, sauces with salt, table salt) the body will shed sodium in sweat at an increased rate to get this substance out as much and fast as possible.

How much sodium and how much minerals do we need?

Enough, that’s it!! How much is enough?

That which we can easily get from whole fresh ripe raw organic fruits and vegetables. After 8 years on a raw food diet without salt I am more than sure of this, my Doctor after 3 consecutive years of blood tests, reviewing my mineral levels, vitamin levels, protein levels, fat levels, etc is sure of this. The ultra-endurance athletes I know are more than sure of this and not worried about sodium even with their near-inhuman feats!! I will soon be releasing my Interviews with DurianRider and Grant Campbell, two amazing endurance and ultra-endurance athletes pushing the limits! They will share their gems of Knowledge on this subject and many more!

Common sense and nature bring us back to simple truths.

is sea salt healthy dangers

The following are the 7 major medical conditions that can arise from the over-consumption of sodium.

It’s interesting to note that they are common with the mainstream using salt or sea salt but unheard of in raw foodists obtaining their sodium in organic form from Whole fresh raw ripe plant foods.

1. High Blood Pressure – The number one medical consequence of high salt intake is hypertension. A high intake of salt causes water retention and promotes an abnormal influx of water molecules into your blood vessels. This action instantaneously increases your blood volume and blood pressure. Sudden rises in blood pressure can trigger life-threatening cardiovascular emergencies like strokes and heart attacks. Reducing your sodium intake through diet can lower your blood pressure by as much as 25%.

2. Ventricular Hypertrophy and Heart Failure – A habit of eating salty food can also heighten your risk of non-blood pressure-related heart diseases. Having higher than normal blood volume means that your heart has to work much harder to provide proper circulation. Over time, your heart can become abnormally large and your heart valves can become thinner. An enlarged heart is significantly weaker and can lead to symptoms like chest pains, breathlessness, and chronic fatigue. Fatal cases like sudden cardiac arrest and heart failure can also occur.

3. Osteoporosis – Sodium inhibits your body’s absorption and utilization of calcium, leading to a loss of bone mass and increased porousness of your bones. Women after menopause, diabetics, and elderly people who are already at high risk of osteoporosis should be especially careful about salt intake. Having a high salt diet can drastically heighten your chances for fractures and other skeletal deformations.

4. Kidney Disorders – Excess calcium and sodium that are not used by your body go into your urine. This can increase the filtration load of your kidneys and increase the likelihood of crystal formation. Elevated blood pressure and blood volume are also extremely damaging to your kidneys.

5. Dehydration and Swelling – Feeling thirsty is a direct response after having salty food. This happens because excessive sodium in your blood draws water out of your cells and into your tissues. Dehydrated cells signal your brain for water. Having fluid-filled tissue makes you look bloated and swollen, and these symptoms are especially severe in the lower parts of your body. Reducing your salt intake is an effective way of preventing swollen feet, ankles, and calves.

6. Digestive Diseases – Sodium regulates the acid-base balance of blood and body fluids. Too much salt can trigger acid reflux and cause heartburn and long-term damage to your upper digestive tract. Studies have shown that habitual intake of salty foods is a strong risk factor for duodenal and gastric ulcers and cancers.

7. Electrolyte and Hormone Imbalance – Excessive sodium can impact both your electrolyte and hormone balance. Too much sodium can severely hinder the conduction of nerve impulses and induce symptoms like dizziness, muscle cramps, and shakiness. You can also have impaired sensory response, feel disoriented or develop other depressive symptoms.”

I hope you really enjoyed this post as well as the video and that it helps you answer the question Is Sea Salt Good For You?

As Always,

Wishing you Much

As Always

Wishing You Much

PeaceLovenSeasonalFruit ck

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26 Comments

  1. Chris, I love you! sorry you got blasted by salt! You looked very puffy! that is such a clear example for people! Thank you, brother Chris
    Richard

  2. Chris – didn’t recognise the dude talking about salt for a minute. He did NOT look like you!! Really great info, thanks. I used quite a lot of salt as a raw vegan and have gone through phases whilst being 811 of using it in small amounts but I do get the swelling effect too. You’ve convinced me to give it up for good.

  3. Thanks for this explanation Chris. I’ll definitely be checking out your other articles/posts, as well as being more careful with salt intake!
    One thing that has been frustrating since Ruth and I started eating raw is the lack of good, solid nutritional info. There is SO MUCH folklore and opinion being tossed around out there. One question that we’re still looking for answers for is the “detox” issue. Okay, it sounds plausible that our bodies may accumulate “stuff”, but show me the science…at a cellular level, where/how are these toxins stored, and does the body need help to eliminate them?
    Anyway, I’m rambling…! Thanks for sharing this info.

    1. Pleasure 🙂
      There is lots of solid info, at least unles you go right to textbooks and solid sources. Dr Grahams work is quite well indexed and footnoted for the most part, some not. I do think its poignant to note science is always behind knowing, there are things we have known in eastern philosophy for thousands of years, that science denied, that is only now coming to be seen as truth. I am more than sure with research you can find that Toxins that cannot be dealt with fully by the organs of elimination are stored in Fat tissues. I don’t think the body needs any help other than giving it the conditions for which it to perform its normal functioning. I feel more often we get in the way with our intellect rather than letting the body run as it was designed.

  4. Thanks for sharing that Chris, I had no idea salt could have that effect. I have been brought up by my mum telling me I must have some iodized salt in my diet! Could you please clarify for me – Is it true that you can flush too much electrolytes from your body, therfore you can get sick from loss of sodium & end up with the same as you mentioned in no.7 for the opposite reason? In health!

    1. Blessings Nicole 🙂 There is zero need for Iodized salt in the diet, in fact if I were to add any it would only be sea salt, but I wouldn’t recommend that in any way either. As long as we are eating enough vegetables to be satiated “savoury wise” we can get all the sodium we need. When we eat “overt salt” we do cause our body to throw off more sodium in sweat, thus during transition to a “overt salt” free diet it pays to take extra care and eat a abundance of high sodium veggies such as celery, cop choy, spinach, purslane etc to make sure we are replenishing our stores. Within a few short weeks and months our body adapts to this physiologically “normal” intake of sodium.

    1. Blessings Annemarie 🙂 Indeed I have strictly with sea salt too, same results. Salt is salt is salt, some cleaner n with next to useless trace minerals, but still results in water retention and irritation.

  5. G'day Chris, I was raw for over a year before going on to a soley raw liquid diet which I have been on for a little over 4 months now. Although I new that salt being inorganic was not good for your body, the other day I had a strange feeling that my body was needing a little extra salt, so I decided to look a little deeper into the possibility of there being any benefits of using it. Amazingly enough I stumbled on to your site and post about salt straight up and it has answered every question I had and more about the benefits of using saltt, there is none and so the idea of using salt has completely vanished from my mind. Thanks Chris your post is brilliant. Take care…Stan

    1. Bless you Stan!!!

      Thanks for sharing brother, most stoked the post helped!! Do enjoy as much leafy greens and or their juices, mm Celery, bok Choy, tomato etc and salt thoughts simply slip away 🙂

      Enjoy much Peacelovenseasonalfruit ck

  6. Awhile ago, I read in Spiritual Nutrition that the bad salt can be eliminated with the help of good, angstrom bonded salt, presumably from fresh greens.  Does this mean if they are taken together, or if you have the fresh celery / purslane etc afterward, it will help get the toxic salt out?  Besides drinking water.

    1. 🙂 I do belive it can only help with the removal of old deposits, to provide the body with Organic Sodium from plant sources 🙂 Love the Purslane, bok choy and celery mmm 🙂

  7. Thank you for the good post! I like it! What do you think about the Himalayan Salt? Is it inorganic and toxic too , bacause dr. Mercola highly recommends it ? So, is Himalayan Salt good or harmful for our health? Thank you in advance for your responce?

    1. Blessings Georgi 🙂

      Thanks for the question, most stoked you enjoy the post! From my learning, research and expereince Salt is Salt. Even Hialayan salt, or pink celtic sea salt is still salt, a irritant, excitotoxin containing inorganic minerals. Organic minerals and sodium without doubt have more healthful effects and are more fully absorbed by the body. hope this helps 🙂

  8. Yes! I believe salt is NOT GOOD FOR ME. I once went on the Gerson Therapy diet as I was working at a clinic and after 21 days my body detoxed from salt and therafter i was incredibly sensitive and clear. Like I normally ought to feel if i were functioning optimally. At that 21 day mark I also urinated highly acid urine, which was painful. I did the experiment a year or so later and the same thing happened during the same amount of time. 

     

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