Salt. Simple right? I guess not…
So, you need salt/electrolytes while fasting. I’ve used pink Himalayan salt for years and used to love it. That is until I heard it contained lead and other heavy metals.
Nope.
Well, when it came time to pick a different salt to use while fasting and for my food, I really wished I didn’t look into it. It’s been a complete headache. You’ve been warned. I suggest you not look into it.
I’m learning about the plastics in sea salt, the cyanide anti caking agents in table salt, the literal sand and rocks in Redmond real salt, etc.
I decided to get your standard run of the mill “Salt + iodine.” What did I notice when reading the ingredients after ingesting it? A little something called Yellow prussiate of soda, which is literally CYANIDE. Even if it’s very small amounts, I need to salt heavy to fuel my workouts and for fasting. I refuse to put any of this into my body. Even if it’s “very little.”
I can’t win.
The closest thing I’ve found to be suitable is pickling salt, which is literally only sodium chloride,
The second is Diamond Crystal kosher salt, which the only ingredient is salt. No sure how I even feel about that.
I even had the idea of using pickle juice. I honestly love the taste of pickle juice. I figured it’s only salt, vinegar, and water, right? Well, my local store only carries pickle’s with Sodium Benzoate🤢. Ordering natural pickles online will just not work financially.
I guess if I just get either of the two salts above, should I get some other supplements to get some complete electrolytes in to help fuel me for the day and for workouts? If so, which ones do you recommended to add to plain salt?
This has depressed me severely. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for all the info you included here. It is great that you take responsibility and inform yourself! I advice you do similar regarding vegetable oils, which is an utter horror story.
The sea has nearly all minerals in it (even traces of gold). Among those things, some/all are obviously going to be toxic for the human body if concentration is high enough (even water is - drinking a few liters quickly is actually lethal).
So looking for toxin, is not the way to go. Looking for toxic LEVELS of things is.
Using pure salt is like eating a lot of refined sugar, in terms of providing the body with a single thing it needs while denying a lot of important micro nutrients that in nature would come bundled with that thing.
Unrefined sea salt has a lot of things in it that the body needs. Life on earth started in the sea, and never really left. The water inside us is the cells way of carrying that habitat with them. The salt industry earns more on selling things they extract from the salt, than selling the salt itself. There is a long list of minerals extracted and sold separately.
I do not know anything about mined salt, but I heard from others that it has a lower content of non-salt nutrients, compared to sea salt.
Having said all that, I just use Lo-salt myself for electrolyte drinks. But when salting food, I use the traditional unrefined salt scraped from beaches in France/Italy.