Salt - article

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Came across this whilst researching something else.... seems good common sense to me! I am not selling it, and have no financial ties.....

Clare in Taz

 

 

The Dangers of a Low Salt Diet

You Need the Right Kind of Sea Salt to Live

Low Salt Diet

The media and medical system have told you a lie: that avoiding salt will help you live longer. The prevailing viewpoint is that salt is a general poison, like alcohol and tobacco. Salt has been vilified as the great devil at the dinner table. Even the health food industry has gone along with this one.

But if you think about it – this makes no sense. Our cells all contain salt. We sweat salt. Our tears contain salt. Our blood is salty. If we don’t eat salt, where will it come from?

The question should not be "Do we need salt". We absolutely do. We cannot live without it. The questions should be "What kind of salts are good and bad for us?".

There are basically three kinds of salt:

1) Sodium Chloride. Normal table salt. This is toxic and bad for your health, as you have been told.

2) So called "sea salt". This should be good for you but unfortunately it has been processed and many of the valuable minerals removed. It's not much better than normal table salt.

3) "Celtic sea salt" or "macrobiotic, hand-harvested, sun-dried sea salt". This is SUPER GOOD FOR YOU! And delicious! We NEED salt - REAL salt. We sweat salt. Our cells are full of salt. We cry salt. We need all the minerals, and things that science has not yet discovered, that are in the sea. We all need this salt for ideal health.

The following information is mostly from Dr. Jacques de Langre, a California biochemist who has studied the health benefits of salt for over 35 years. He has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Brussels. He wrote two books on this topic, "Sea Salt's Hidden Powers" and "Sea Salt, the Vital Spark for Life".

Dr. de Langre openly agrees that refined salt (pure sodium chloride) is toxic to the body - and can cause high blood pressure. Yet he believes Celtic sea salt is extremely healthy, and has the exact opposite effect of refined salt. Celtic sea salt is so named because it was first produced in France.

The entire health field is very sloppy with its terminology on salt. They think all salt is the same. This is far from true. Most refined salts are a poison. But some natural salts are a nutritious food.

In America, doctors condemn salt. They take heart patients off of salt. In France, they give heart patients good salt.

"The most convincing fact that salt is critical to life is that the amniotic fluid is salty. Amniotic fluid is the fluid surrounding the embryo. (Editor’s note: And yet, ALL salt has been removed from virtually all baby foods. Where will the salt come from for these babies to produce properly functioning bodies?).

99% of the world's research on salt is done on commercial table salt. This is the only salt they know of. They think all salt is the same - but they're wrong.

The medical doctors have a dilemma. Refined salt can cause a lot of problems. They are correct on that point, and that has been well documented. Yet, a salt-free diet has problems of its own. Neither approach, whether taking refined salt, nor avoiding it - is the answer. People desperately need salt for good health, and medicine doesn't have any solution.

On the topic of salt, American scientists are very narrow-minded and insular. We are still in the dark ages of salt making. In many parts of France, when a person comes in with heart problems, high blood pressure, or other problems which are hard to diagnose, the first question the physician may ask is, "What kind of salt are you using?" There is no such opportunity here, because the only recognized salt is refined, white table salt.

Some of the best scientific research on the health properties of good salt is written in French, German and Portuguese. But few American doctors have read them. This country was raised on refined salt. We inherited this from the English. So, we have never been exposed to a healthy salt.

If your tears weren't salty, if your blood wasn't salty, if your sweat wasn't salty, you wouldn't be functioning very well. The current medical belief that our body can function on no salt at all, or on a restricted salt intake, causes more problems than it tries to solve.

You can't function without salt. You can't digest food without salt. Your heart can't function. Your adrenal glands can't function. Your liver can't function Your kidneys can't function.

Sodium is the predominant cation in the circulating blood plasma and tissue fluids. Derek Demon brought out this point in the medical physiology book, 'The Hunger for Salt."

Everyone was born in a salty solution - our mother's amniotic fluid This is probably the best biological proof we have that cellular structure is enhanced by salt. The amniotic fluid is a salty, 'mini-ocean' for the fetus. This is a prime example of why we need all of the ocean's minerals as part of our make-up. This is basic.

Your very blood needs salt to function. There was an article in the Scientific American on this topic in the July, 1963 issue, "'The Social Influence of Salt." It said, '"The chemical requirements of the human body demand that the salt concentration in the blood be kept constant." They discussed how you can die on a completely salt-less diet.

A salt-free diet speeds up aging. Your cells must be bathed in a sodium-based, extra cellular fluid. When the cells are not in this fluid, they will explode. This has been proven biologically. The cells of a mammal deprived of sodium literally explode.

Without salt, there is no longer any exchange between the sodium on the outside of the cell, and the potassium on the inside. Talk about aging, this is probably the one, single, most important biological fact that must be considered when you discuss salt. When deprived of that saline solution, the cells age.

On the other hand, taking refined salt is not the answer. This will promote a pathological calcification and a breakdown of cellular tissue. In either case, you have problems.

Occasionally some people initially have adverse reactions from using Celtic sea salt. Some people get rashes. The salt acts as a scavenger and purges the body of many toxins from some hidden areas. These toxins come out into the circulatory and lymph system, and particularly the kidney area. This is where the rash comes from, it is a kidney cleansing. This is a normal reaction for people who are very toxic. If you are not toxic, it will not happen. A similar reaction is that sores will break out under the arm pits

Celtic Sea Salt

 

 

 

 

 

Celtic Sea Salts® are naturally harvested by a cooperative of farmers in Brittany, France. The method used for gathering these nutritional salts follows a 2,000 year-old Celtic tradition and is supported by modern quality control standards. The French Government prides itself in this unique resource and has preserved thousands of acres of pristine wild marsh, as a "National Treasure" and "Protected Site" so that these areas will continue to produce Celtic Sea Salts for centuries more. In 1991, the French Ministry of Forests and Agriculture gave its most honorable "Superior Quality Food" mention to Celtic Sea Salt®.

Current scientific research reveals that there are actually very few salt-related health problems. A healthy, active lifestyle demands a sufficient reasonable salt intake. The contention that our body can function on no salt at all or on a restricted ration of salt causes more problems than it is intended to solve! Life is closely dependent upon the presence of sodium. However, to clearly understand the role of sodium in blood, we must examine it in combination with water and various ions: chlorine, potassium, calcium, hydrogen, etc. That is why it is more important to study the co-activity of sodium with these other ions, rather than the sodium element alone.

 

"Water & Salt for Total Healing" -- Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.The negative effects of table salt as opposed to whole sea salt are discussed. Learn how water and unprocessed salt are vitally important to disease-free health.©Copyright. All rights reserved.Click here to download the free RealAudio Player to listen.

In Health Alert by Dr. Bruce West, February 1996 Dr. West says:"Today, health claims are getting wilder and wilder. None of these claims changes the most fundamental truth about good health--namely, that lifestyle changes with the right kinds of nutritional supplements, attention to your environment, exercise, examination of your body’s structure (i.e. spine, neck, pelvis), pure water, the right kind of salt (we use only Celtic Sea Salt ), and a positive mental attitude are the things that make up good health."

A Quote From Dr. Shamim Daya, January 1999:"The Celtic Sea Salt is a wonderful, vital and essential food for the body. Today, when so many people are suffering from adrenal exhaustion, low blood pressure and mineral deficiencies, the Celtic Sea Salt™ is an ideal and invaluable remedy. What makes the Celtic Sea Salt™ so magical is that it is one of the few foods left in nature that is not man made or man interfered with. So it has a composition of minerals that is naturally balanced and also has an "energy" that is very harmonious to the body. Many chronic fatigue and adrenally exhausted patients greatly benefit from including the Celtic Sea Salt in their treatment regime."

Jose A. Rivera M.D. (Lecturer/Member Advisory Board Intl. Fed. of Holistic Medicine) states:"I have had adult onset asthma since I was in college and have had many bouts of anaphylaxis which were life threatening. Due to the information that you have provided I have been able to ameliorate a cure for my own asthma with water and salt intake. I have been asthma free approximately 1.5 years and have not had any reactions to the allergens of the past. The information has been most helpful In making me aware of when and how to drink water and take salt in order to hydrate myself and prevent any recurrence of asthma. Also, I have been able to advise other patients with respiratory and allergen problems In how to increase their water and salt intake safely, and to my amazement the amelioration has been dramatic. Thank you sir for giving me and others the breath of life thru something so simple as water and salt."

Mae Kamin writes and says:"I have a cat who for the past few years has been extremely inactive due to bladder problems and a tumor on her leg. In addition to these problems, she is 18 years old and I felt because of her age she just couldn't get around much anymore. She would find a spot and stay there all day without moving except to go to her litter box. She always slept on the bed but for the past two years or more she could not even make the steps. Several weeks ago I started putting sea salt in her drinking water. I made no other changes in her diet. Two days after I started this I came out of my bedroom and found her lying in the hallway (second floor). She has been there every day ever since. A week ago when my great granddaughter slept over, I was next to her in bed reading a story when the cat jumped up on the bed next to us. she has not been able to do that either for at least 2 years. Fantastic improvement in this 18 year old pet."

Craig Palmiter states the following improvements in his health:"After reading material provided by Dr. Batmanghelidj I discovered the answers to my problems were as clear as the nose on my face. For as always in life, during a crisis, we are so consumed with the problem that we forget the basics of what we are, which is 78% water. During a physical crisis of ill health, we usually follow the traditional avenues of medicine, tests and surgery when nine out of ten times the answer is as close as the faucet on the kitchen sink. We as human beings possess the most magnificent machinery of biological wonder but like all machinery it requires lubrication. If not properly maintained, it simply becomes rusty and shuts down. It is ironic that we give our possessions so much attention (like making sure our cars, trucks, lawn mowers are gassed and greased), yet though our ignorance and inattention we ignore the greatest machines of all... OURSELVES! With the knowledge I have gained, I now possess good health and clarity of thought that I haven't enjoyed in quite a long time. I owe this to the simplicity of adequate water & sea salt intake, proper diet and vitamin and mineral supplements. In closing, I would like to say, we are all unique and wonderful and deserving the best of treatment that we can give ourselves."

 

Find Ground Celtic Salt:Treasured as the finest of all condiments in France and many other countries outside the United States. Free of any processing, it is dried only by the hot summer sun and wind. It is harvested by expert salt farms who delicately gather the salt from the marshes with wooden hand tools. Its characteristic grey color can be attributed to the pure clay sole of the manicured basins. The clay ionizes the many minerals in the salt, making it richer in electrolytes. Because Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt is sun dried, it retains the ocean's moisture, which helps lock in many vital trace elements.

Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures, particularly humans. Water and salt regulate the water levels of the body. Water itself regulates the aquatic 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. Good health depends on a most delicate balance between the ratio of water inside and outside the cells, and this balance is achieved by salt - unrefined salt.

http://www.brmcrae.geo.net.au/otherminerals.htm

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I am a great supporter of salt myself. Salt to taste and 1/4 cup warm water taken many times a day relieves cough. If given as the last thing at night the cough patient sleeps peacefully at night. I have personally experienced this efficacy. The same water is good against tooth infections. We use warm water and salt to clear our nasal passages through 'neti' this helps in upper respiratory problems. It is very good for sinus problems. We drink salt water and take it out through the mouth to clear the esophagus. We drink saline water to clear our bowels.

But of course the salt should be pure sea salt. which unfortunately we do not get. still I use what ever is available.

In ayurveda we are asked to eat six different rasas (tastes) and these are sweet, salt, sour, bitter, pungent and astringent. Out of which sweet is 60%.

I have touched these subjects in the book that i have written. It is yet to be published.

 

 

 

 

 

Clare McConville-Harris GOOGLE <theclaremcharrisUndisclosed-RecipientSent: Sun, 1 November, 2009 11:59:54 PM Salt - article

 

Came across this whilst researching something else.... seems good common sense to me! I am not selling it, and have no financial ties.....

Clare in Taz

 

The Dangers of a Low Salt Diet

You Need the Right Kind of Sea Salt to Live

Low Salt Diet

The media and medical system have told you a lie: that avoiding salt will help you live longer. The prevailing viewpoint is that salt is a general poison, like alcohol and tobacco. Salt has been vilified as the great devil at the dinner table. Even the health food industry has gone along with this one.

But if you think about it – this makes no sense. Our cells all contain salt. We sweat salt. Our tears contain salt. Our blood is salty. If we don’t eat salt, where will it come from?

The question should not be "Do we need salt". We absolutely do. We cannot live without it. The questions should be "What kind of salts are good and bad for us?".

There are basically three kinds of salt:

1) Sodium Chloride. Normal table salt. This is toxic and bad for your health, as you have been told.

2) So called "sea salt". This should be good for you but unfortunately it has been processed and many of the valuable minerals removed. It's not much better than normal table salt.

3) "Celtic sea salt" or "macrobiotic, hand-harvested, sun-dried sea salt". This is SUPER GOOD FOR YOU! And delicious! We NEED salt - REAL salt. We sweat salt. Our cells are full of salt. We cry salt. We need all the minerals, and things that science has not yet discovered, that are in the sea. We all need this salt for ideal health.

The following information is mostly from Dr. Jacques de Langre, a California biochemist who has studied the health benefits of salt for over 35 years. He has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Brussels. He wrote two books on this topic, "Sea Salt's Hidden Powers" and "Sea Salt, the Vital Spark for Life".

Dr. de Langre openly agrees that refined salt (pure sodium chloride) is toxic to the body - and can cause high blood pressure. Yet he believes Celtic sea salt is extremely healthy, and has the exact opposite effect of refined salt. Celtic sea salt is so named because it was first produced in France.

The entire health field is very sloppy with its terminology on salt. They think all salt is the same. This is far from true. Most refined salts are a poison. But some natural salts are a nutritious food.

In America, doctors condemn salt. They take heart patients off of salt. In France, they give heart patients good salt.

"The most convincing fact that salt is critical to life is that the amniotic fluid is salty. Amniotic fluid is the fluid surrounding the embryo. (Editor’s note: And yet, ALL salt has been removed from virtually all baby foods. Where will the salt come from for these babies to produce properly functioning bodies?).

99% of the world's research on salt is done on commercial table salt. This is the only salt they know of. They think all salt is the same - but they're wrong.

The medical doctors have a dilemma. Refined salt can cause a lot of problems. They are correct on that point, and that has been well documented. Yet, a salt-free diet has problems of its own. Neither approach, whether taking refined salt, nor avoiding it - is the answer. People desperately need salt for good health, and medicine doesn't have any solution.

On the topic of salt, American scientists are very narrow-minded and insular. We are still in the dark ages of salt making. In many parts of France, when a person comes in with heart problems, high blood pressure, or other problems which are hard to diagnose, the first question the physician may ask is, "What kind of salt are you using?" There is no such opportunity here, because the only recognized salt is refined, white table salt.

Some of the best scientific research on the health properties of good salt is written in French, German and Portuguese. But few American doctors have read them. This country was raised on refined salt. We inherited this from the English. So, we have never been exposed to a healthy salt.

If your tears weren't salty, if your blood wasn't salty, if your sweat wasn't salty, you wouldn't be functioning very well. The current medical belief that our body can function on no salt at all, or on a restricted salt intake, causes more problems than it tries to solve.

You can't function without salt. You can't digest food without salt. Your heart can't function. Your adrenal glands can't function. Your liver can't function Your kidneys can't function.

Sodium is the predominant cation in the circulating blood plasma and tissue fluids. Derek Demon brought out this point in the medical physiology book, 'The Hunger for Salt."

Everyone was born in a salty solution - our mother's amniotic fluid This is probably the best biological proof we have that cellular structure is enhanced by salt. The amniotic fluid is a salty, 'mini-ocean' for the fetus. This is a prime example of why we need all of the ocean's minerals as part of our make-up. This is basic.

Your very blood needs salt to function. There was an article in the Scientific American on this topic in the July, 1963 issue, "'The Social Influence of Salt." It said, '"The chemical requirements of the human body demand that the salt concentration in the blood be kept constant." They discussed how you can die on a completely salt-less diet.

A salt-free diet speeds up aging. Your cells must be bathed in a sodium-based, extra cellular fluid. When the cells are not in this fluid, they will explode. This has been proven biologically. The cells of a mammal deprived of sodium literally explode.

Without salt, there is no longer any exchange between the sodium on the outside of the cell, and the potassium on the inside. Talk about aging, this is probably the one, single, most important biological fact that must be considered when you discuss salt. When deprived of that saline solution, the cells age.

On the other hand, taking refined salt is not the answer. This will promote a pathological calcification and a breakdown of cellular tissue. In either case, you have problems.

Occasionally some people initially have adverse reactions from using Celtic sea salt. Some people get rashes. The salt acts as a scavenger and purges the body of many toxins from some hidden areas. These toxins come out into the circulatory and lymph system, and particularly the kidney area. This is where the rash comes from, it is a kidney cleansing. This is a normal reaction for people who are very toxic. If you are not toxic, it will not happen. A similar reaction is that sores will break out under the arm pits

Celtic Sea Salt

 

 

 

 

 

Celtic Sea Salts® are naturally harvested by a cooperative of farmers in Brittany, France. The method used for gathering these nutritional salts follows a 2,000 year-old Celtic tradition and is supported by modern quality control standards. The French Government prides itself in this unique resource and has preserved thousands of acres of pristine wild marsh, as a "National Treasure" and "Protected Site" so that these areas will continue to produce Celtic Sea Salts for centuries more. In 1991, the French Ministry of Forests and Agriculture gave its most honorable "Superior Quality Food" mention to Celtic Sea Salt®.

Current scientific research reveals that there are actually very few salt-related health problems. A healthy, active lifestyle demands a sufficient reasonable salt intake. The contention that our body can function on no salt at all or on a restricted ration of salt causes more problems than it is intended to solve! Life is closely dependent upon the presence of sodium. However, to clearly understand the role of sodium in blood, we must examine it in combination with water and various ions: chlorine, potassium, calcium, hydrogen, etc. That is why it is more important to study the co-activity of sodium with these other ions, rather than the sodium element alone.

 

"Water & Salt for Total Healing" -- Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.The negative effects of table salt as opposed to whole sea salt are discussed. Learn how water and unprocessed salt are vitally important to disease-free health.©Copyright. All rights reserved.Click here to download the free RealAudio Player to listen.

In Health Alert by Dr. Bruce West, February 1996 Dr. West says:"Today, health claims are getting wilder and wilder. None of these claims changes the most fundamental truth about good health--namely, that lifestyle changes with the right kinds of nutritional supplements, attention to your environment, exercise, examination of your body’s structure (i.e. spine, neck, pelvis), pure water, the right kind of salt (we use only Celtic Sea Salt ), and a positive mental attitude are the things that make up good health."

A Quote From Dr. Shamim Daya, January 1999:"The Celtic Sea Salt is a wonderful, vital and essential food for the body. Today, when so many people are suffering from adrenal exhaustion, low blood pressure and mineral deficiencies, the Celtic Sea Saltâ„¢ is an ideal and invaluable remedy. What makes the Celtic Sea Saltâ„¢ so magical is that it is one of the few foods left in nature that is not man made or man interfered with. So it has a composition of minerals that is naturally balanced and also has an "energy" that is very harmonious to the body. Many chronic fatigue and adrenally exhausted patients greatly benefit from including the Celtic Sea Salt in their treatment regime."

Jose A. Rivera M.D. (Lecturer/Member Advisory Board Intl. Fed. of Holistic Medicine) states:"I have had adult onset asthma since I was in college and have had many bouts of anaphylaxis which were life threatening. Due to the information that you have provided I have been able to ameliorate a cure for my own asthma with water and salt intake. I have been asthma free approximately 1.5 years and have not had any reactions to the allergens of the past. The information has been most helpful In making me aware of when and how to drink water and take salt in order to hydrate myself and prevent any recurrence of asthma. Also, I have been able to advise other patients with respiratory and allergen problems In how to increase their water and salt intake safely, and to my amazement the amelioration has been dramatic. Thank you sir for giving me and others the breath of life thru something so simple as water and salt."

Mae Kamin writes and says:"I have a cat who for the past few years has been extremely inactive due to bladder problems and a tumor on her leg. In addition to these problems, she is 18 years old and I felt because of her age she just couldn't get around much anymore. She would find a spot and stay there all day without moving except to go to her litter box. She always slept on the bed but for the past two years or more she could not even make the steps. Several weeks ago I started putting sea salt in her drinking water. I made no other changes in her diet. Two days after I started this I came out of my bedroom and found her lying in the hallway (second floor). She has been there every day ever since. A week ago when my great granddaughter slept over, I was next to her in bed reading a story when the cat jumped up on the bed next to us. she has not been able to do that either for at least 2 years. Fantastic improvement in this 18 year old

pet."

Craig Palmiter states the following improvements in his health:"After reading material provided by Dr. Batmanghelidj I discovered the answers to my problems were as clear as the nose on my face. For as always in life, during a crisis, we are so consumed with the problem that we forget the basics of what we are, which is 78% water. During a physical crisis of ill health, we usually follow the traditional avenues of medicine, tests and surgery when nine out of ten times the answer is as close as the faucet on the kitchen sink. We as human beings possess the most magnificent machinery of biological wonder but like all machinery it requires lubrication. If not properly maintained, it simply becomes rusty and shuts down. It is ironic that we give our possessions so much attention (like making sure our cars, trucks, lawn mowers are gassed and greased), yet though our ignorance and inattention we ignore the greatest machines of all... OURSELVES! With

the knowledge I have gained, I now possess good health and clarity of thought that I haven't enjoyed in quite a long time. I owe this to the simplicity of adequate water & sea salt intake, proper diet and vitamin and mineral supplements. In closing, I would like to say, we are all unique and wonderful and deserving the best of treatment that we can give ourselves."

 

Find Ground Celtic Salt:Treasured as the finest of all condiments in France and many other countries outside the United States. Free of any processing, it is dried only by the hot summer sun and wind. It is harvested by expert salt farms who delicately gather the salt from the marshes with wooden hand tools. Its characteristic grey color can be attributed to the pure clay sole of the manicured basins. The clay ionizes the many minerals in the salt, making it richer in electrolytes. Because Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt is sun dried, it retains the ocean's moisture, which helps lock in many vital trace elements.

Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures, particularly humans. Water and salt regulate the water levels of the body. Water itself regulates the aquatic 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. Good health depends on a most delicate balance between the ratio of water inside and outside the cells, and this balance is achieved by salt - unrefined salt.

http://www.brmcrae. geo.net.au/ otherminerals. htm

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