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Salt Protocol

Sea Salt good, table salt bad

"I know that salt tastes great. In fact, I'm not against using salt for most people. But the salt should be either Himalayan pink salt or Celtic sea salt. The reason? Sea salt has the identical ratio of sodium and potassium as found in our bodies. It also has a near identical blend of trace minerals as well. If you use this type of salt, you'll protect yourself from the sodium by getting the other nutritional minerals we need at the same time. Most table salts have plenty of sodium, but little else. They don't offer the same protection." Doctor Robert Jay Rowen

"Not to be forgotten, and perhaps even more critical, is the role of dietary salt in contributing to these differences in death rate. In countries with lower CHD death rates, most of the magnesium comes from table salt that is derived from seawater through an evaporative process. This type of table salt contains calcium, potassium, and large amounts of magnesium, in addition to the sodium. Table salt used by North Americans comes primarily from salt mines. As a result of being washed with hydrochloric acid and recrystallization, this purified salt contains almost pure sodium chloride. The Japanese consume 10 grams of ocean salt a day. This provides approximately 1500 mg of magnesium. This is almost four times the magnesium recommended in the RDA and five times more than the average American gets. People from the countries using sea salt suffer a higher incidence of hypertension and stroke (probably due to the higher sodium intake) but lower rate of CHD (probably due to their higher magnesium intake). With increasing use of pure sodium chloride in these countries over the past 20 years, it is interesting to note that the incidence of CHD has increased accordingly.” Doctor Michael Lam MD

"In this study, researchers fed two groups of rats a diet loaded with salt. They split the rats into two groups. They gave one a placebo. And they gave the other a supplement containing grape powder. The grape powder had lots of grape-rich flavonols. You might be familiar with resveratrol. It is a key grape flavonol. After 18 weeks, the group taking the grape powder had lower blood pressure, better heart muscle function and structure, and lower markers of inflammation than the placebo group. A third group fed a low-salt diet and grape powder had the additional benefit of less cardiac stress (by molecular testing)." Doctor Robert Rowen

A large prospective Japanese study, researchers followed 58,730 people aged 40-79. They followed the group for 12 years. What they found could save your life. Those taking in the most potassium had a 35% reduced risk of coronary mortality and a 27% reduced risk of cardiovascular disease mortality compared to those in the lowest quintile intake. At the same time, those with the highest sodium intake had a 55% increased risk of total stroke-related mortality, a 104% increased risk of ischemic stroke mortality, and a 42% increased risk of total cardiovascular disease-related mortality." Doctor Robert Jay Rowen

"Research suggests increasing potassium intake may be just as important as decreasing sodium for optimal cardiovascular health." Archives of Internal Medicine Jan 2009

"Some recent European research has concluded that an extra pinch or two of salt per day can help the elderly to stay healthy - and that fully 10% of older folks suffer from a sodium DEFICIENCY! This lack of sufficient daily salt can cause nervousness, hallucinations, muscle cramps, and even urinary incontinence.” Doctor William Douglass MD

"Americas staggering weight problem can be boiled down to three things; excess sugar, fat and salt in our food." The End of Overeating 2009, Note make that BAD fat, there are good fats, and PROCESSED salt

“When commercial, processed American food arrived in Africa, Dr Albert Schweitzer, that famous humanitarian, noted soon afterwards that the food had brought with it something new, something hardly seen before in that land, something very devastating: Cancer. Dr Schweitzer, in his journal, proclaimed one very powerful cause. He wrote: "It's the salt."

Sodium and Chloride are essential for life. Sodium and chloride are the principal ions in the fluid outside of cells, which includes your blood. Salt is necessary to maintain and nourish the cells of your body and maintain your blood volume and pressure. No study has ever found an association between low-sodium diets and a reduced risk of heart disease or other diseases. Studies have found that those on low-salt diets have had more than four times as many heart attacks as those on normal sodium intakes.

There is a subset of people who apparently are sensitive to the effects of dietary salt on blood pressure. These include some obese and insulin-resistant individuals, African American, elderly, and female hypertensive patients among others. However IMO low levels of potassium rather than excess sodium is often the problem.

About 75% of the salt intake in the U.S. is derived from salt added during food processing. Salt deficiency does not generally result from inadequate dietary intake, even in those on very low-salt diets. Most of us get plenty of salt, a little more than we need. For most of us a balance between potassium (See Potassium Protocol) and sodium will protect against ingesting too much salt. We need about four times the potassium as sodium in our body. Unless you are getting too little potassium your body will keep this balance. Eating plenty of fresh raw food will give you more than enough potassium.

Use Sea Salt NOT Table Salt

Although both sea salt and table salt contain the essential sodium and chloride ions, table salt is a highly PROCESSED PRODUCT containing many chemicals. A little table salt in a pinch is preferable to none such as when running a race in the heat but IMO you should use sea salt on your food at least at home. I try not to use table salt at all and postpone my salt intake until I can get sea salt. Even if you try to not use table salt you will ingest plenty, for example my beloved canned salmon is loaded with table salt.

Please don’t use processed table salt, try to get most of your salt from unrefined sea salt (See Sea Salt Protocol).

Who may be deficient in Sodium and Salt

Endurance Athletes
Active people who sweat
People on a low Processed Food Diet
Some people avoiding the saltshaker

A good test to see if you are low on salt is to put a pinch on your tongue. If it tastes real GOOD you may need salt. The bottom line seems to be if you eat a lot of processed food (See Processed Food Protocol) you can forget about the saltshaker. Of course you don’t eat processed food so you need to watch for too little salt. When you have a taste for salt use a little. Meat (See Meat Protocol) requires some salt to keep its acidic digestion products from leaching calcium (See Calcium Protocol) from your bones.

Sea Salt good, table salt bad