The most powerful way of building health is on a firm foundation which is made up of the basic elements beneath our feet, the dust of the earth. These basic elements are the 90+ minerals and trace elements that make up the earth's crust and our own bodies. Once these are correctly put into place in an individual, the victory over disease will be won.
Natural pure sea salt contains these minerals in abundance but, sadly, profit has made them unavailable for human consumption by many of the industries that process and refine salt for the human diet. Sea salt contains 92 essential minerals but most refined adulterated sea salts contain only 2 elements. 24 of these elements in real sea salt have already been proven necessary and essential to maintain and recover health and more are being realised as having beneficial properties all the time.
Supermarket or health food store "sea salt" has been refined. At its origin, it may have come from the sea, but it has been harvested mechanically from dirt or concrete basins with bulldozers and piped through metal conduits. It is then put through many degrading artificial processes, heated under extreme heat levels in order to crack its molecular structure and robbed of all of its minerals that are essential to the human body. These elements are extracted and sold separately to industry. Precious and highly prized by the salt refiners, these bring more far higher profits than the salt itself. It is then further adulterated by chemical additives to make it free-flowing, bleached and iodized. To call what remains "sea salt" is very misleading. In addition, harmful chemicals have been added to the processed, altered unnatural substance to mask and cover up all of the impurities it has. These added chemicals include free flowing agents, inorganic iodine, plus dextrose and bleaching agents. Standard salt additives: potassium iodide (added to the salt to avoid Iodine deficiency disease of the thyroid gland), sugar (added to stabilize Iodine and as an anti-caking chemical) and aluminium silicate.
For all these reasons the only sea salt to consume must be unrefined and pure. The whiter salt is the top layer which contains far less minerals than the brown coloured sea salts.
WHAT IS SALT?
Sodium Chloride, the chemical name for common salt, contains 39 per cent of sodium, an element which never occurs in free form in nature. It is found in an associated form with many minerals especially in plentiful amounts withchlorine. The body of a healthy person weighing about 65kg contains 256g of sodium chloride. Of this the major part, just over half, is in the extra-cellular fluid. About 96g is in bone and less than 32g in the cells. Sodium is the most abundant chemical in the extra-cellular fluid of the body.
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It acts with other electrolytes, especially potassium, in the intracellular fluid, to regulate the osmotic pressure and maintain a proper water balance within the body. It is a major factor in maintaining acid-base equilibrium, in transmitting nerve impulses and in relaxing muscles. It is also required for glucose absorption and for the transport of other nutrients across cell membranes. Sodium can help prevent catarrh. It promotes a clear brain, resulting in a better disposition and less mental fatigue. Because of its influence on calcium, sodium can also help dissolve any stones forming within the body. It is also essential for the production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach and plays a part in many other glandular secretions.
The average human being only requires about 4g of salt per day but currently consumption is more like 12g.
Between 65 and 85% of salt is already in the food consumed which is why adding extra salt to meals is unnecessary and harmful. Most processed foods including cheese and bread contain vast amounts of added salt so adding more salt to any meal is just an overdose. Many highly nutritious natural foods like seaweed, aromatic herbs and spices can be added for extra taste instead. This will have the added advantage of providing many more necessary phytonutrientsand minerals to the diet as well.
There is natural salt in every food we eat especially: almonds, apples, beef, beetroot tops, berries, cabbage, celery, cheese, corn, cucumbers, grapefruit, kelp, kidney,lemons, lentils, lettuce, oily fish, okra, oranges, pears, pumpkin, peaches, shell fish,seaweed, squash, walnuts and watermelon
WHY SALT IS NECESSARY
Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures, particularly humans. Water and salt regulate the water content of the body. Water itself regulates the water content of the interior of the cell by working its way into all of the cells it reaches. It has to get there to cleanse and extract the toxic wastes of cell metabolisms. Salt forces some water to stay outside the cells. It balances the amount of water that stays outside the cells. There are two oceans of water in the body; one ocean is held inside the cells of the body, and the other ocean is held outside the cells. Good health depends on a most delicate balance between the volume of these oceans, and this balance is achieved by unrefined salt.
When water is available to get inside the cells freely, it is filtered from the outside salty ocean and injected into the cells that are being overworked despite their water shortage. This is the reason why in severe dehydration we develop an edema and retain water. The design of our bodies is such that the extent of the ocean of water outside the cells is expanded to have the extra water available for filtration and emergency injection into vital cells. The brain commands an increase in salt and water retention by the kidneys. This is how we get an edema when we don't drink enough water.
Initially, the process of water filtration and its delivery into the cells is more efficient at night when the body is horizontal. The collected water, that mostly pools in the legs, does not have to fight the force of gravity to get onto the blood circulation. If reliance of this process of emergency hydration of some cells continues for long, the lungs begin to get waterlogged at night and breathing becomes difficult. The person needs more pillows to sit upright to sleep. This condition is the consequence of dehydration. However, you might overload the system by drinking too much water at the beginning. Increases in water intake must be slow and spread out until urine production begins to increase at the same rate that you drink water.
When we drink enough water to pass clear urine, we also pass out a lot of the salt that was held back. This is how we can get rid of edema fluid in the body; by drinkingmore water. Not diuretics, but more water! In people who have an extensive edema and show signs of their heart beginning to have irregular or very rapid beats with least effort, the increase in water intake should be gradual and spaced out, but not withheld from the body. Naturally, salt intake should be limited for two or three days because the body is still in an overdrive mode to retain it. Once the edema has cleared up, salt should not be withheld from the body.
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