SALT IN ABUNDANCE!!!

Believe me I LOVE SALT !!!

How hard it is to be told that salt is the ENEMY. It is wrong to fear salt.
In fact it is down right DANGEROUS to believe to that we should limit our salt intake.

How very grateful I am for the knowledge that came to me a few years ago about SEA SALT. Salt is VITAL for our survival as human beings and also for the survival of all living creatures. Water and salt regulate the water content of the body. Water itself regulates the water content of the interior of the cell by working its way into all of the cells it reaches. It has to get there to cleanse and extract toxic wastes of cell metabolisms. Salt forces some water to stay outside the cells. It balances the amount of water that stays outside the cells. There are two oceans of water in the body; one ocean is held inside the cells of the body, and the other ocean is held outside the cells. Good health depends on a most delicate balance between the volume of these oceans, and this balance is achieved by unrefined salt!

Refined salt causes salt cravings, because the need for real salt is not met. Ordinary table salt has been stripped of its companion elements and it contains additive elements such as aluminum silicate, sugar, or yellow prussiate of soda to keep it powdery and porous, plus different bleaches added to the final salt formula.

Natural sea salt allows liquids to freely cross body membranes, the kidney's glomerulus's and blood vessels walls. Whenever the sodium chloride concentration rises in the blood, the water in neighboring tissues is attracted to that salt-rich blood and the cells then re-absorb the enriched inter-cellular fluid. If the kidney's are functioning properly,they remove the saline fluids easily. In fact there are 92 essential minerals in unrefined sea salt that the body very much needs.

I have read that "The Belgian historian Henri Pirenne observed that during the High Middle Ages, the whole of Europe suffered from a salt famine that was to last almost 500 years. The entire continent was thrown into a Dark Age of human under-development, creating an epidemic of crazed people many of whom died from dehydration and madness.Though mined salt from the depths of the earth was substituted, the lack of live, balanced trace elements in rock salt lowered the mental equilibrium and intellect level almost as much as the absence of salt had."

Dr. Jacques de Langre, Ph.D, who wrote the book "Sea Salt's Hidden Powers", states that naturally and properly SUNSHINE-PRESERVED sea salt is the difference between life and death, health and illness, social sanity and planetary panic and its elements are vital for proper body functions. That natural hand-harvested Celtic ocean salt alone helps to maintain life, neutralizes toxins and detrimental bacteria and enhances all our organic function.

Salt is the single element required for the proper breakdown of plant carbohydrates into usable human food.
In ancient Celts times, salt was used to treat major physical and mental disturbances, severe burns, and other aliments. Today biologists attest that seawater (also called "mother liquor') restores hydro-electrolytic imbalances, a disorder that causes loss of immune response, creates allergies and causes many health problems.

WHY EAT CELTIC SEA SALT???

Quote from Dr. Batmanghelidj, M.D.: ABC of Asthma, Allergies & Lupus

According to Dr. Batmanghelidj salt has many functions other than regulating the water content in the body.

* Salt is a strong natural antihistamine. It can be used to relieve asthma by putting it on the tongue after drinking a glass or two of water.
* Salt is vital for extracting excess acidity from inside the cells, particularly the brain cells. If you don't want Alzheimer's disease, don't go salt free.
* Salt is the best diuretic that exists.
* Salt is vital for the kidneys to clear excess acidity and pass the acidity into the urine.With out sufficient salt, the body will become more and more acidic.
* Salt is essential in the treatment of emotional and affective disorders.
* Salt is essential for preserving the serotonin and melatonin levels in the brain. When water and salt perform their natural antioxidant duties and clear the toxic waste from the body, essential amino acids will not be sacrificed as chemical antioxidants.
* Salt in my opinion, is vital for the prevention and treatment of cancer. Cancer cells are killed by oxygen; they are anaerobic "organisms" dehydration- shortage of water and salt, suppresses the immune system and its disease -fighting cells' activity.
* Salt is vital for maintaining muscles tone and strength. Lack of bladder control in those who suffer from involuntary leakage of urine could be a consequence of low salt intake.
* Salt is effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeats and contrary to the misconception that it causes high blood pressure, it is actually essential for the regulation of blood pressure--in conjunction with water.
* Salt is vital for sleep regulation.
* Salt is a vitally needed element in the treatment of diabetics. It helps balance the sugar levels in the blood and reduces the need for injected insulin.
* Salt is vital to the communication and information processing of nerve sells the entire time that the brain cells work--from the moment of conception to death.
* Salt is essential for the absorption of food particles through the intestinal tract.
* Salt is vital for clearing the lungs of mucus plugs and sticky phlegm, particularly in asthma, emphysema and cystic fibrosis sufferers.
* Salt on the tongue will stop persistent coughs.
* Salt is vital for clearing up catarrh and sinus congestion.
* Salt is essential for the prevention of muscle cramps.
* Osteoporosis, in a major way is the result of salt and water shortage in the body.
* Salt is absolutely vital to making the structure of the bones firm.
* Salt is vital for maintaining sexuality and libido.
* Salt is vital for preventing varicose veins and spider veins on the legs and thighs.
According to Dr. Batmanghelidj "As a rule of thumb, you need about 3 grams of salt -half a teaspoon for every 10 glasses of water or a quarter teaspoon for each quart of water.

The Celtic Sea Salt that we use is awesome!! Truly the SALT OF LIFE.

Le Paludier (Salt Farmer) sea salt has a pleasing natural taste.
It is harvested ecologically from a pristine clean shore and dried without artificial heat. All the trace minerals found in nature's own salt have been left undisturbed and in delicate balance.
Le Paludier salt chemically resembles almost exactly amniotic fluid, the 'mini-ocean' for the human fetus.
Le Paludier salt comes from the region of Guerande-Brittany, on the North West coast of France. It is cultivated and harvested without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides and packed under pharmaceutical conditions.
Paludiers, or salt farmers, use wooden tools and follow the ancient tradition of the early Celtic people, allowing the sea water in a series of canals to evaporate on natural clay beds. It is then gently raked into piles and allowed to dry slowly in the sun.
The Le Paludier salt contains about 80 mineral elements that the body needs. Some of these elements are needed in trace amounts.
The following is a partial chemical analysis carried out by the University of Bordeaux. Per 100g of salt

Mineral Matter: Trace Elements

Sodium 37.2g Iron 2.5mg
Magnesium 550mg Manganese 0.55mg
Calcium 40mg Zinc 0.44mg
Potassium 160mg Copper 0.4mg
Sulphur 125mg Cadmium 0.02mg Iodine trace

Unrefined sea salt is a better choice of salt than all other types of salt on the market. It is packaged in coarse and fine ground. It is grey in color and slightly damp. It is vital that the salt retain its natural moisture to hold the magnesium salts. The magnesium salts hold the other minerals in balance.
To use the fine salt requires a dish and spoon or a large holed shaker such as one used for spices. There are some wonderful coarse salt grinders available for the coarse sea salt.

A WORD OF CAUTION !!
Some supermarket or health food store "SEA SALT" has been totally refined. At its origin, it may have come from the sea, but:
* It has been harvested mechanically from dirt or concrete basins with bulldozers and piped through metal conduits
* It has been put through many degrading artificial processes
* It has been heated under extreme heat levels in order to crack its molecular structure
* It has been robbed of all of its essential minerals that are essential to our physiology- these elements are extracted and sold separately to industry, bringing more profit than the salt itself
* It is further adulterated by chemical additives to make it free-flowing , bleached and iodized.
To call what remains "SEA SALT" would be quite misleading!

If you are in need of help to access the salt please feel free to email me.