Do we need salt?
‘Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: Yeast, Salt, and Hesitation’
Gemara
People DO need salt, and the best form is from natural sources such as plants, seaweeds, sea creatures and via salt-saturated airborne water molecules as found close to seashores. This form of salt is rich in 84 known human cell replenishing minerals and trace elements, plus dried mineral rich sea vegetable matter. Salt, in true sea-form and botanical mineral-salt form, unprocessed, unadulterated, is the natural controller of our physiological and spiritual actions. We think because of the salt in our blood. There is a Russian proverb that says
“Eat grain and salt and speak the truth!”
Sodium and potassium within tissue intercellular spaces and inside cells creates the necessary osmotic pull, contraction and expansion to mobilize cell fluid contents. In this way the internal saline sea is kept in motion propelling nutrients into or through the cell membrane, and expelling cell-wastes out of cells for lymphatic elimination. The sodium-potassium ‘pull’ or interaction, draws energy producing oxygen molecules into the cells, determining the ebb and flow of life’s processes, including mental alertness, imagination, resolve, eg will and strength, and the acuteness of all senses.
Table salt is simply two inorganic minerals, sodium and chloride – toxic poisons to the human system. In contrast, sun-dried sea salt is reputed to be healthy and a little every day is beneficial. This is because such unrefined sea salt also contains organic, salt laden mineral and nutrient rich plankton.
Human blood is similar to the composition of the ocean ‘from whence he came’. Salt is a catalyst of man’s functions. Man is borne of salt, conceived and nurtured in a salty medium.
Many people cannot tolerate salty foods at all. This intolerance affects the quality of their health and character. Lacking warmth and affection, these persons remain unhappy. This stems from any of the following causes:
1. A high salt concentration remaining in tissues and fluids, due to salt plus meat consumption
2. Kidneys that have become weak or failed to function
3. Conditioned judgement – the person blames the food, the cook, the water, but refuses to recognize his or her condition.
We learn that excess salt collects in tissues and body fluids. However, it is only the refined salt that causes this problem. Natural sea salt does not accumulate in the tissues, as the magnesium salts will eliminate sodium chloride after it has performed its important jobs of acid-base balance, cell permeability and muscle contractibility. If an excess of natural salt is ingested, then the intake of water is automatically increased caused by thirst. The quantity of salt in excess of the body’s need is automatically rejected by the body, but much more easily if natural salt is used. An unbalanced diet or malfunctioning kidneys are much lesser causes of salt retention. An over-salted condition can become chronic when blood vessel walls are shut tightly by the hardness of refined salt. The disruption of sexual functions is only a warning signal, announcing impending illnesses such as urinary tract infections, Addison’s disease, kidney cancer or albumen in the urine.
Addisons’s disease is a condition of adrenal deficiency. Some of the symptoms are: abnormal cravings for more salt; weak sex drive; gradual darkening of the skin and mucus membranes; puffiness of face and jaw. This illness has been described as tuberculosis of the adrenals. In symptomatic medicine, it is treated by a steady regimen of hormone injections.
These medications create high blood pressure, due to fluid retention made worse by the use of refined salt. They also cause the toxins of these drugs and hormone injections to concentrate and stagnate in the body which inevitably results in vulnerability to more disease.
One of the major functions of the adrenal cortex is to secrete the hormone cortisone, sodium being a mineral vitally needed for human metabolism; a healthy adrenal cortex prevents the unwarranted elimination of sodium salts. This, together with aldosterone, regulates and balances salt and water throughout the body. Natural cortisone has many other functions, from changing protein into glucides and changing food into cells, to prevent inflammation.
Unrefined sea salt is available as ‘Celtic Sea Salt’ in Health shops.
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