I still make a differentiation between cheap, iodized table salt and the far healthier sea and himalayan salts!

I recently read an article comparing the salt we buy at the grocery with sea salt. It said that our grocery salt is heated to 1200 degrees during processing, whereas sea salt is dried in the sun; a much lower temperature. I don't remember if it was on HSI or another alternative medicine site. Just something else to think about.

I don't use salt, not for fear of high blood pressure, but I became adapted to eat the meal the way it was prepared, which means I get almost no iodine!! Thjis is dangerous!!!
So I started taking a daily kepl tablet, which has 225 MCG of iodine....150% of daily allowance!! I will now cut back to every other day!!!

They say we are 70% water, and that the Earth is 70% water. But that is SALT WATER!!!!! Maybe WE ought to be 70% Salt Water too....

Be well and happy.
Steve

I just wish to tell you all that there is a difference between Sea Salt and Iodized Salt.
My Father nearly passed away with sea salt. Reason Doctors said that the Human Body needed Iodine in their system.
You also get Natural Salt in certain Vegetables.
My Father has had a Heart Infarction many years ago.

To be quite honest I am totally confused about the use of salt. On an almost daily basis I read health advice to reduce salt and now this article is telling us to use it. I have high blood pressure and I don’t know what is best to combat my very high readings.

There is a huge difference between a quality sea salt like himalayen and Celtic sea salts and regular table salt. I believe that in all of the past hypertensive studies that were done with salt, only the regular table salt was used. This type of salt would obviously give more negative results because regular salt is not only highly imbalanced where it has mainly sodium chloride but an aluminum salt is also added in many of these salts to absorb moisture and to prevent caking. Aluminum is suspected to cause neuro degradation and possible dementia since aluminum is well known to precipitate with any trace fluoride ions in the body can accumulate deep within the nervous tissues of the brain. Furthermore, sea salt is a balanced distribution of various electrolyes which composes of not only sodium and choride, but 80 other electrolyes which include calcium, magnesium, potassium and many trace minerals our body needs whether we know it or not. Hence, I strongly believe in taking about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon amounts of a quality sea salt because it is very healthy for most people and I can also say that for myself as well.

Himalyan salt is not sea salt (though it may have been deposited by a long vanished sea). It is rock salt, and is usually of a pinkish colour because of the various other elements apart from sodium. It has a pleasant flavour. Himalyan Rock salt comes from the Salt Range in North Punjab of Pakistan. It is quite cheap locally, costing a few cents for the pound. I was shocked to see its price in the US.

I've read further, that balanced salt intake does not contribute to HBP. Sea Salt as evaporated from the sea contains ALL major salts, including sodium, calcium, potassium and magnesium chlorides, bromine, gold, silver, manganese and other trace elements. However these are removed when salt is harvested gravimetrically (pH detection) using large ag combine machines. (Visit Cargill's site to see what I mean.) What this means is that NO one is getting the whole gamut of salts the human body needs. To say that salt is sea-salt or solar-evaporated, means nothing, it's still (almost always) singular mineral salt, not the whole product of salt(s). The best way to get all your salts is buy unscented bath salts and grind them up.

Huh?
Sea Salt and Table salt and Kosher salt each contains 2,350 mg of sodium per 6 g weight. Sea salt is obviously well marketed by the sound of your writings here. Yet, it's no different to the human body. Costs more, and is "watered" down with lycopene or other additives to make it appear it has less sodium. And this drying in the sun and all that reflect marketing and waves of paranoia. (A great deal of marketed sea salt is obtained from deeper in the earth than table salt, while some is obtained from "salt beds," often referred to as salt ponds.) Iodine has long been unnecessary in salt in inudstrialized nations. It is not normally found in salt but is instead added during processing. As to tests for bp, there have been hundreds of studies worldwide and it's been conclusive that lowering sodium among heart failure patients actually reverses heart disease (such as dilated cardiomyopathy). (These studies started back in 1907.) Cutting sodium down also helps Meniere's Syndrome patients. There have been no recorded deaths nor heart failures because of the reduciton of sodium. But scientists have known for a very long time that all the human body needs is 8 to 10 mmol/day. That's 144 to 180 mg of sodium per day (impossible figure to drop to if you eat anything at all). A red flag is waved when reading this site: misinformation concerning the health of those who must cut their sodium levels down is tantamount to leading many into dire health outcomes.

I am extremely concerned about all the conflicting items I read about salt and sodium. I have Meniere's Disease and was told to cut out salt altogether and to only have 120mg of sodium per day. I can't get my head around all the hype about what's right and what's wrong. I can't get used to having no salt either. My food is so bland but I don't wish to have the vicious vertigo attacks so I have stopped having salt and have to check every label in the supermarket for low sodium foods. I am also concerned about the health effects regarding not having salt and any iodine deficiency that might cause more problems to my health. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?