Real Sea Salt & Health

Humans need whole, clean ocean salt; medical and biological research support that. The ocean contains all of the precious minerals our bodies require for optimum function. The human embryo spends the first nine months of its life floating in a miniature ocean. At no time in our entire existence, from the moment of conception onward, are we without the need of salt.

Relatively few people are informed about the denaturing of real salt. Industrially refined salt has had as many as 82 trace minerals and essential macronutrients forcibly removed, leaving only a single compound made of sodium and chloride. The salt refiners profit from selling the extracted minerals.

If these 82 nutritive substances were left as they occur in clean natural sea salt, salt would again be whole and fulfill its vital role to enhance life and maintain optimum health.

Clean, sun and wind dried, hand-harvested, natural sea salt offers countless health benefits because of its complex beneficial minerals and bioelectric power. It maintains a physiological electrolyte balance, balances alkalinity/acidity levels, restores good digestion, relieves allergic symptoms and helps skin diseases.

Natural unrefined sea salt provides renewed energy and at the same time gives higher resistance to infections and bacterial diseases. Proper electrolyte balance in the body is achieved by maintaining relatively high potassium content inside the cell and a high sodium concentration in the fluid outside the cell. In centuries past, salt, the universal necessity, was also appreciated as an effective medicine. It was used alone, as an energizer and detoxifying agent, or in conjunction with healing plants.

Our bodies contain three internal oceans that require frequent mineral replenishment of many trace elements: Blood Plasma, Lymph Fluid, and Extra cellular Fluid that bathes every living cell in a mineral-rich solution.

Each one of these complex solutions surrounds and circulates through our body. These single elements work in conjunction with all the others to regulate optimum body function. These fluids are similar in their make-up and intimately connected. External influences quickly modify these fluids. As an example, bathing in seawater has an immediate strengthening effect on the lymphatic system.

Sea salt has the most "grounding" activity of any substance used in food. Sea salt has a yin (female) nature and represents the earth. It can be used to bring a person down to earth or give food a more substantial quality. Sea salt has a purifying effect and can detoxify poisons. A little salt can actually help counteract poisoning from poor quality foods. Knowing this, it makes sense that so many of us intuitively crave salt in our increasingly fragmented and polluted world.

Sea salt contains a myriad of health properties. It strengthens digestion and stimulates the kidneys. Salt softens hardened lymph nodes, glands, muscles, and abdominal obstructions and swellings. Salt is alkalizing, thus is craved by those whose systems are overly acidic.