Death By Sea Salt?!?

Sea Salt is 7 times saltier.

According to Dr. Carey Reams, biophysicist, sea salt is seven times more “salty” than your regular table salt. Unless you are a heavy worker such as a lumberjack sea salt is just too much. Having a dry, hot mouth is also very common with sea salt overconsumption.

When we take in salt our body has to break it down into its base components.

Table salt, which is sodium chloride, becomes sodium and chlorine. Sodium is the electrolyte part of it and helps our adrenal glands and message transmission. Chlorine is used to help make hydrochloric acid for the digestion of food-stomach acid. Table salt used in moderation according to conductivity testing of your urine is very useful and valuable to your body chemistry.

Sea salt contains Sodium chloride, Epsom salts and other Magnesium salts, Calcium salts, Potassium (Kalium) salts, Manganese salts, Phosphorus salts, and Iodine salts among some 80 minerals in an inorganic form. Unless your digestion is pretty tip top, sea salt ingestion puts a lot of pressure on your liver as well as the rest of your digestive system to get all of these inorganic minerals out of the system. Minerals that are inorganic have to be paired up with phosphate in the body in order to become useable by the body.  Without the phosphate, which is naturally paired to the mineral in plant foods, a “necessary” mineral becomes a toxin and must be removed from the body.

Use Your Conductivity Meter

If you want to know if you are ingesting too many salts, there is a tool you can purchase and use to find that information out. Hanna Instruments has a tool called the DisTWp4. With very little instruction you can use this tool to measure your urinary output of electrolytes, or salts, and KNOW without a shadow of a doubt whether you need to cut back on salt intake and increase water intake.

The salts measured by this meter are not only the salts you eat but also the salts that are the result of metabolism.  As your body does its thing, salts are the by-product. Therefore even if you don’t eat very much salt you may have a higher than desired reading. This is generally the case when not enough water is being consumed on a regular schedule. I recommend 3-4 oz. of water (preferably steam distilled) every half hour for 10 hours to flush your system all the way to the tips of your fingers and toes.

Popularity isn’t always best.

It really concerns me when anything becomes popular. Whoever has the most money to promote it wins. Not very many promoters care about the real facts related to the product they are promoting. They are concerned with business and money. All I want to say here is be careful what you do, listen to your body, and don’t abuse the use of anything. “In much variety there is safety.”

For more information on how you can learn to use your urine & saliva to create a personal dietary agenda contact me and we’ll talk.