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For health's sake, the problem is refined
table salt and not mineral rich natural salt. Refined salt is just
sodium chloride. Good unrefined sea salt or Celtic Salt contain over 80
trace minerals that is naturally supposed to be in salt. In regular
table salt, sugar has been added and the vitally important minerals have
been refined out.
This refined, depleted salt and too much of
it is the main reason salt has such a bad reputation. This bad salt is
what is in all refined foods. Animals, including humans need salt.
Most of the research and published material in the US has been about
this refined table salt. In many parts of the world, it is well accepted
that salt itself is not the problem, if eaten in its unrefined state.
If you look at animals in the wild, they will travel many miles to find a
salt lick to stay healthy.
To make refined salt worse, this depleted
salt often contains harmful anti-caking agents, some of which have been
linked to heavy metal toxicity and kidney problems. A common
preservative in these refined salts, sodium acetate, may cause elevated
blood pressure and kidney disturbances.
The truth is that unrefined sea salt is
actually extremely good for you. It helps to balance your blood sugar,
helps keep your bones strong, regulates your metabolism, boost the
immune system and more. Natural, unrefined sea salt provides a number of
nutrients and minerals, in a way that the body recognizes and knows how
to use. Over 80 trace minerals found in the best naturally filtered
salt water. This natural state often creates unrefined sea salt to have
a grayish color. It has a slight moistness that helps keep the salt and
minerals in a form that the body can utilize.
The naturally occurring minerals in unrefined
sea salt are vitally important to maintaining normal blood pressure. In
fact, it's been found to be dangerous to your health to eat too little
salt, and this frequently happens when somebody has been told by their
doctor to restrict sodium. This causes people to erroneously start
avoiding all salt, instead of eating true natural healthy salt that
contains all of the trace minerals. Other good sources of sodium are in
certain vegetables that have not been over heated or over cooked. Even
then it is hard to get the adequate amount needed.
You can find unrefined salt right in the
store but check the label, it must say "unrefined". Some sea salts are
still refined. Dr David Brownstein, the author of the book Iodine,
states his favorite salt is Celtic Salt and has written a book called
Salt Your Way to Health. AxtecSeaSalt is another salt that has a good
reputation for purity and contents. It comes out of Sayulita Mexico.
It can be hard to find due to only harvesting it a short time during the
year.
I prefer to add salt after the cooking as to
not alter it by potentially overheating . Cooks that have been using
refined salt tend to over salt because their taste buds get
desensitized. So always taste before you salt and carry the good salt
with in when you travel.
Adrenal, Heart and other glandular and system
nutrition are important when weakness or damage is identified through
testing. We will discuss with you at Homecoming 2015 new BRIMHALL
formulations that are WHOLE FOODS, PREDIGESTED, ALL NATURAL and UP TO
300 TIMES MORE DIGESTIBLE AND USABLE.
See You January 23-25 in Tempe, AZ for Homecoming 2015.
John W Brimhall, DC, FIAMA, DIBAK |