Why Having Enough Salt is So Important!

We Need More Salt Because:

Eating a high carbohydrate diet the kidneys will hold onto salt, 
when we restrict carbohydrates our kidneys release salt which takes water with it.


Such is the natriuretic (excretion of large amounts of sodium in the urine) effect of low carbohydrate eating that we have to add salt to our diet to ensure we don’t get dehydrated because of the salt and fluid loss. 


The great thing about the Alkaline Paleo program is that it relieves fluid retention and lowers blood pressure.
After being on this program a while noticed I didn't have the usual bags under my eyes when I got up in the morning.  This was the first time I had no bags in 30 years.

I didn't need to have expensive surgery to "debag" under my eyes. 


I also stopped getting premenstrual fluid retention.


IMPORTANT: If you are on blood pressure medication:

 If you are on blood pressure medication you may start to become dizzy when you begin this program.  Make sure you visit your doctor as you will need to slowly or quickly come off your blood pressure medication.




Indications of Needing More Salt

• If you are urinating more frequently you need to up your Celtic sea salt intake
• .If you have a headache, fatigue, weakness and constipation take more Celtic sea salt
•  If you are getting cramps increase your Celtic sea salt intake. (Cramps can also mean you are not drinking enough water or you may need more potassium)

Celtic sea salt is the only salt with all the minerals your body needs which includes Iodine.
I wasn't  getting enough salt at the beginning of the program and I had the worst night of cramps I had every had.  Went away as soon as I upped my salt intake.



Why Consume Salt Containing Iodine?Low Iodine levels can trigger low HCL (stomach acid) production essential for all digestion stages. 
Low levels of HCL is very common in today's world where we are eating too much carbs.

Iodine also enables chloride to enter stomach cells, this is important because the chloride ion in salt is an element of HCL. There are about 600 milligrams chloride per 1 gram of salt. 


If you cannot get Celtic salt you can consume sea vegetables (seaweeds) along with salt as  they can provide iodine.



Salt in History

Whole books have been written about the history of salt.

 Wars were fought over access to salt. 

Roman soldiers were often paid with a measure of salt, hence the origin of the English word “salary”. Hunters and their prey, herders and their cattle, all shaped their actions and habits around access to salt.

Humans did not need to know chemistry to understand the value of salt. 

Salt deprivation leads to lightheadedness, fatigue, headache, and malaise. 

Aboriginal cultures could figure out that if they drank from one spring they began to feel lousy, but if they drank from that other one, they’d feel OK. The Inuit knew which ice to melt for water to boil their meat. Sea ice loses its salt content with age. Fresh ice had too much salt, fresh snow had none, whereas older seas ice was just right.

Now that your diet is much closer to that of the hunting cultures you will need to understand the need for salt, as they understood the need, and thus their highly evolved practices of finding salt and consuming enough of it to maintain health and well-being.