… purchasing the right kind…
Imagine putting together a really healthy meal – organic / slow cooked / lots of love / maybe raw / maybe something special for a particular friend / no soy / all good fats… and THEN the spoiler! BAD SALT!
We tend to define salt by colour: Pink Salts vs. Greyish Sea Salts vs. White Salt From-A-Box. ALL salts from where-ever they were mined, in their natural state, before we refined, processed or tortured them, all packed a powerful punch. There can be up to 80 trace minerals and elements found in some salts and less in others (sulphates, magnesium, calcium, potassium, sodium, chloride, borate, strontium and iodine and many trace minerals). So why all the fuss about which salt is better?
It’s in the processing! Extremely high heat processing (much higher temperatures than ordinary cooking temperatures), is the biggest culprit in regards to decreasing the healthfulness of salt (any salt from anywhere and any colour!
Very high temperatures cause the two minerals that make up salt – the molecules of sodium and chloride – to fuse VERY strongly and unnaturally. Sodium and chloride – which are so very essential for us to have in our bodies – separately – are restructured by high heat processing – to become a bonded two-some type molecule that cannot be re-separated again during digestion and therefore become useless to our bodies.
The heat-bonded sodium-chloride molecules are seen by our bodies as toxic and indigestible!
In healthy people all toxins that end up in the digestive tract are enveloped with mucous immediately made by the intestinal lining in order to mitigate damage and take the toxin out of harm’s way – this then could end up just stuck in the gut or eventually be eliminated – and over time this can / does accumulate making our intestines unnecessarily burdened (as if there isn’t enough burden there already). This applies to the very finest purest pink crystals (if they have been heat te=reated), down to salt from a poor quality lake bed – no matter from where the salt hails. ALL high heat processes alters the molecular bond – distorting it. Neither Health Canada nor the FDA requires disclosure of this processing manner (surprise!) on salt packages.
HIMALAYAN (pink): This pink salt comes from ancient salt sea-beds left behind high in the mountains, and is rich in varying mineral content. And the salt-in-a-box (of olden days) also comes from a body of evaporated water – probably also an ancient inland sea-bed. So all salt comes from a salted body of water, namely, an ocean or a salt-water lake. However, Himalayan salt is said to be of the purest form. The Himalayan mountain ranges stretch across China, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and India. Their crystallized sea salt beds, now deep within these Himalayan mountains, are in a pristine environment protecting the salt from modern-day pollution leading to the belief that Himalayan Pink salt is the purest salt to be found on earth. So, when buying small pink Himalayan crystals, in a nice little package in a proper health store, one must believe or be sure that there has been no heat treatment applied to these crystals – as often (or never) the packaging doesn’t specify.
OTHER SPECIAL SALTS (sometimes pink and sometimes grey): Salts from the Dead Sea or Brittany or other lakes and shores around the world are scoped up and may have experienced processing with high heat in order to cleanse the salt (swimmers, rusty objects and boats abound on the Dead Sea; open air pollution and chemtrails decend over Utah’s lakes; as well as the ocean’s pollution on the shores of Brittany, etc, as examples). These salts are all high-heat treated – for health reasons. Yet some of these salts are highly prized, high priced and promoted as extra healthy! Just because they are not marketed in grandma’s cardboaard box with a little metal lip, doesn’t make them awesome! The question is: …are they heat-processed?
OLD-FASHIONED Table Salt IN A BOX:
Commercially refined salt is not only stripped of all its trace minerals, it is also chemically cleaned, bleached and heated to unnecessary high temperatures. Then anti-caking agents which prevent salt from mixing with moist air in the box are added. (Under US law, up to 2% of table salt is allowed to be made of additives; can do no harm??? Really???).
Finally, the iodine that is added to salt for our health is usually synthetic which is difficult for our bodies to process properly, so that advertising claim is worth babkes.
However, the natural iodine in rock salt is indispensable!
So, we can just walk around all this confusion by using the big balls of beautiful pink Himalayan salt – often sold as candle holders in health food stores (even at some drug store chains around Hallowe’en time). These beautiful balls have OBVIOUSLY NOT been tortured – neither with chemicals nor heat.
Take the salt ball; place it in a pillow case or clean cloth bag that you don’t mind torturing, and bang away with a hammer or mallet. The ball will break into smaller pieces. The large ones you can place into a wide-mouthed GLASS jar and add water (just to saturation). The brine you create will be perfectly healthy for adding to your cooking. The tiny salt pieces that splinter off from the pounding and dust can go into a salt grinder – for on the table. The grinder will take a toll as the salt is so hard! The saturated brine will taste beautifully – life giving!
The replenishing nutrients can be picked up through the skin, too. Stimulate circulation, detoxify and soothe sore muscles by way of a very hot bath, 30 minutes and voila! Naturally rich in 80+ nourishing and skin-replenishing minerals, bathing with your pink Himalayan salt brine is brilliant; always make sure that the concentration of salts is higher in the tub water that you are surrounded by than the mineral concentration in your body – so that’s upwards or four cups for a small tub – and can be up to seven depending on the size of the tub. (We are salty bodies! Just taste your tears!) This is not a place to skimp! You want the flow of minerals to be inward through your pores, rather than leeching minerals outward, which is what happens if you use just a little bit such as a cup.
Another healing and therapeutic experience for mind and body is a combination of Himalayan salt and Epsom salts.
Crystal rock lamps are sold for air purification and air ionization purposes in some health stores. Having this rock or candleholder around will make absolutely no difference to your air quality unless you have an entire wall of salt (in spite of the one-ball claims). But using that crystal rock in your kitchen for cooking is a huge asset.
Crystal salt rooms for improved breathing have such a massive amount of rock salt that there certainly is a therapeutic difference for healing bronchial and lung tissue – a really good thing. Take a look at the Polish salt mine below!
The old Salina Turda Salt Mines in Transylvania, is the world’s largest salt mine and museum. Originally established in the 17th century, the massive mines were formed completely by hand and machine rather than by using explosives.
And the Polish one at http://www.wieliczka-saltmine.com – a UNESCO designated World Heritage site – you will not find anything like it anywhere in the world salt with benefits!. https://youtu.be/WQxjcgTn9tw.
Wieliczka is only a 20 minutes’ bus ride from Kracow so if you are there checking up on Da Vinci’s masterpiece, check Wieliczka salt mines out as well.
And a few details for the discerning nutritionists amongst us:
- Good salt can create an improved electrolyte balance and therefore a better pH in all body fluids (alkalinity/acidity)
- Good salt can increase hydration – which includes the regulation of water content both inside and outside of tissue cells and improves energy, lymph and blood circulation and this in turn can help prevent muscle cramping
- Good salt can aid in improved metabolism functioning (adding chloride, per example, gives our stomachs more hydrochloric acid for our digestive juices to work better) and helps the intestines absorb some nutrients better as well as supporting the thyroid a tad with the extra REAL iodine.
KNOW YOUR OPTIONS
Merrie Bakker B.Sc, M.Arch, CN
by appointment only
please email, phone or text 604-261-7742, info@pacificholistic.com
we’re still in Kerrisdale, Vancouver, BC
HOURS: flexible hours – Monday – Saturday
Cancellations – we request 48 hour notice by phone prior to your scheduled appointment.
(NO supplement sales occur at Pacific Holistic EVER – in order to maintain our integrity. No products ~ no biases ~ no MLM ~ no hidden commissions ~ just plain honest, in-depth straight-forward analysis, suggestions and support.)
FEES:
The initial session takes about 3 1/2 hours (depending on your health challenges, curiosity, questions and knowledge) $190
Follow-up sessions (within one year) are quicker – $95
We accept cheques, cash, e-transfer and all credit cards (through the PayPal system).
GET YOUR FREE HEALTH REPORT: 78 FOOLPROOF TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH – SHOOT US AN EMAIL WITH “78” in the subject info@pacificholistic.com
Pacific Holistic steam sauna Ozone / Oxygen therapy
Reflexology, Reiki, Dowsing – classes – all levels and therapeutic sessions
add me to your Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/PacificHolistic/
connect with me at LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/merriebakker/
#All-Things-Corona #HealthNews #reflexology #Reiki #CancerAlternatives #All-Things-Glyphosate #Nightshades #Ozone #LECTINS #Bone-Broth #Sleeplessness #Hair #MoodSwings #IODINE? #Vaxxxinations #Hydrazine-Sulphate #B3 #MistletoeCancerTherapy #Cellulite #Natural-GLUTATHIONE #Cholesterol #stem-cells #vegetarian #Gluten #Castor-Oil-Packs #Glycemic-Index #gut #herpes #12 Hacks For WeightLoss #Vaxxxines #Cancer-Bio-Markers #Mistletoe #detoxifying #PainKillers #Blood-Sugar-Imbalances #sugars-sweeteners #anti-radiation #Geopathic-Stress #Magnesium #depression #Clutter-Clearing #OXALATES #GLYCATION #MINERALS #Surviving-Chemo-Radiation #Parasites #Dental-Fact-Fiction #fishy #Butter #Diabetes-Hypoglycemia #Help! #Minerals-for-Mental-Health #DMSO #B12 #Synthetic-versus-Natural #Dr. Livingston #Alpha-Lipoic-Acid #Biology_of_Emotions #hormones #oil-pulling #pH-tests #Health-Canada-Agenda #ozone-Essiac-misteltoe #cerebral palsy #soy lecithin #dowsing #eyes #detoxing
Merrie Bakker – Live Blood Analyst / microscopist – Health Educator – Author – Teacher – Speaker – Editor – Hands-on-Healer – Reflexologist – Dowser – Reiki Master – Nutritional Coach – a life-long student of holistic medicine and preventative health who believes with a passion that cellular disorganization can be prevented or reversed by ortho-molecular medicine, emotional healing work, environmental detoxification (many areas of concern) and nutritional and lifestyle re-balancing (many possibilities). Combined with vigilance, monitoring and team work, clients are encouraged to detox, rebuild, re-nourish, resolve and re-educate.
Obligatory medical disclaimer:
It should go without saying… but we know and you know that you take full legal responsibility for whatever decisions you make regarding your health care.
What we offer on this site is for informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. The whole point here is that you think clearly for yourself and make your own decisions.
Testimonial:
Merrie explains why she makes each recommendation and why certain foods or supplements are recommended or not. No blind faith required. She is an uncommonly honest writer, too.
This is empowering for me. You are not “talked at”, either.
She also has a sense of humor and the time flies by.
J. L.
Pacific Holistic 