Table salt is composed primarily of two ions: sodium (Na) & chloride (Cl).
It’s the same salt often used to melt snow on the road.
Table salt is most commonly mined. Explosives blast through rock to create a cave, and then 40 or more holes are drilled into the salt face. These holes are primed with pellets of even more explosive materials. Miners ignite the explosives, creating a blast that dislodges 800 to 900 tons of rock salt in less than 3 seconds. The rock salt is scooped out and thrown in a spinning crusher, and then crushed a second time.
Table salt is chemically cleaned at high temperatures, which turns it into a chemical structure not recognized by your body. In fact, your body thinks refined table salt is poison and tries to excrete it as quickly as possible, causing a burden on your body’s detoxification organs, especially your liver and kidneys. It does this by surrounding the sodium chloride with water to separate the Na and Cl ions enabling our body to absorb some of the minerals and excrete the rest. The water used to break this up comes from inside your cells, causing dehydration at the cellular level.
Even worse, regular table salt is often bleached and then treated with anticaking agents like aluminum (associated with Alzheimer’s), sodium ferrocyanide (cyanide), and other agents you’ll also find in roof tiles, cement, the coating on welding rods, dry cleaning, a laxative to loosen the bowels, and aircraft de-icing fluid…to name a few.
Sea Salt, untouched, would be pure and would contain trace minerals in addition to sodium and chloride.
Unfortunately, our oceans are being used as waste-dumping facilities and are being polluted with radioactive waste, petro-chemicals and heavy metals like lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, and more. These toxins can be present in sea salts.
That’s why 80% of sea salt producers are refining their salt – using high temperature chemical stripping processes that turn it into a chemical structure your body can’t readily absorb – just like table salt.
Pink salts or other Himalayan Salt. This is where you need to be most careful.
Don’t get us wrong, pink and other Himalayan Salts are some of the better salts in the world…
but if you are here you are probably looking for the BEST Salt in the World – Original Himalayan Crystal Salt®