A healthy, active lifestyle demands a reasonable salt intake.  In the uterus, an embryo grows more than three billion times its conception weight in the salty environment of amniotic fluid. From the time of conception we are never without a need for salt.  Our bodies contain three internal oceans that closely resemble the ionic balance of ocean water — the blood plasma, the lymphatic fluid, and the extra-cellular fluid.   Each one of these complex solutions surrounds our cells and circulates through our bodies.  Ocean salt contains all of the precious salts that our bodies require and it is because of these minerals that salt is a necessity.  

Unfortunately, America has been saturated with the use of sodium chloride, also know as table salt.  This harmful chemical is a concentrated, unbalanced source of sodium.  Common table salt lacks many trace minerals.  In order to make salt white, it is washed in an bleach-wash many times, and in this process the valuable trace minerals are lost.  Now, the salt is no longer a whole food.  Following this refining process, the minerals are removed and sold to the chemical industry, or to pharmaceutical companies to make dietary supplements.

Food becomes deficient and can even become toxic when ingredients are removed from it.  Without the other minerals to balance it, salt becomes deadly when consumed excessively — as in the typical American diet.  Salt is the most common preservative used today.  Many foods are laced with this non-whole food salt — especially fast foods.  French fries, milk shake beverages, sauce mixes, canned foods, and cured meats are major sources of salt.

Celtic Sea Salt, which comes from the coasts of France, is one of the few salts I have found that contributes to a healthy body.  Unlike other “sea salts,” Celtic Sea Salt has all of the necessary minerals and nutrients intact, even providing magnesium, potassium and calcium.  Nothing has been extracted, so therefore it is a whole food.  As a complete food, the body can easily absorb the nutrients from the salt and evenly distribute them throughout the body, without creating dehydration.  Celtic salt is one of the only salts I recommend to use daily.

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