Table salt versus Himalayan crystal salt

Science has already determined the role and need of salt (sodium) in our existence. But what is still unclear to most is the difference between refined and processed table salt versus natural and unaltered Himalayan crystal salt.

Understanding the role sodium plays in the body, and the difference between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ sources of sodium, will help you get the bad salt out of your diet while still satisfying your body’s need for a source of high quality sodium.

“Salt consumption for health is considered by the orthodoxy to be irresponsible and dangerous, yet, so far as proper research has shown, the only danger to the public lies in common table salt, an industrial poison, which has been refined from Nature’s storehouse to remove all elements but sodium chloride, then fortified with iodine and various fillers for the supermarket shelves. Some say we ended up with this particular compound due to industry’s colossal use of it. Whatever the reason, table salt is not real salt as the ancients knew it and its dangers as well touted”

Source: Phillip Day, The Essential Guide to Salt and Water.

Since the beginning of industrial development, mined salt and the majority of sea salt or salt evaporated from seawater, has been stripped of its inherent mineral content through a process that chemically cleans and reduces it to only sodium and chloride. Essential minerals and trace elements are removed in the process. The remaining salt by itself however, is not a natural element. Additionally, additives increase the salt’s unnatural profile.

The body recognises this chemically cleaned and chemically enriched sodium chloride as an aggressive poison and wants to get rid of it as quickly as possible. This causes a constant overburden on our excretive organs. In almost every preserved product, salt is used as part of the preservation process.

Therefore, by adding more salt to the already salted food, the body receives more salt than it can get rid of.

The body tries to isolate the overdose of salt. In this process, water molecules surround the sodium chloride in order to ionize it into sodium and chloride to neutralize it. For this process, the water is extracted from our cells and the body has to sacrifice its most precious cell water in order to neutralize sodium chloride. In doing so, the dehydrated body cells die.

Source: The Essential Guide to Water and Salt, F.Batmanghelidj MD and Phillip Day
Water and Salt – The Essence of Life, Dr.Med. Barbara Hendel and Peter Ferreira