Natural Grey Sea Salt -v- Refined Salt  

We hear so much today about how salt is bad for you. Salt free diets are best; salt exacerbates high blood pressure and strokes; etc. etc.

So, if salt is not required by the body, how come, when all else fails, in an emergency, you receive a saline drip? If it really is that bad for you, what possible use could this dangerous substance do for you, when your life is already threatened?The answers are simple - the natural makeup of our bodily fluids closely resembles that of sea salt. We require the unadulterated sodium and other trace elements found in natural grey sea salt to survive - without salt, we will die! This is an absolute fact.

Then why are we told not to use salt? The problems lie in the intake of refined salt (commonly known as table salt) - the sort you can buy in little packets, tubes, jars etc. from the supermarket, which is brilliantly white, free-flowing, never clogs the salt cellar etc. What a wonderful invention! However, this refined salt will have been:-

Mechanically harvested, often taken from concrete storage basins and transferred through metal pipe-work to reach its destination;
Undergone substantial artificial processes which serves only to degrade the product still further;
Had its molecular structure cracked by being heated to extremely high temperatures, over and above the level of the heat of the sun;
Through all of these procedures, it will have been totally divested of the essential elements required by our bodies to survive;
And finally, it will have been further chemically altered by the addition of anti-clogging agents, bleach and iodine.

Natural grey sea salt, however, does not undergo any of these harmful processes. it is:-

Harvested by hand, using the traditional methods followed by early salt harvesters 2000 years ago;
Pure, and does not undergo any chemically altering processes;
Wet, and grey in colour - the grey indicates the mineral and trace elements content, essential to our survival;
Formed in small, very precise cubic crystals;
Rich in the 24 elements which have been proven to be biologically necessary to maintain life (Scientific American Magazine 1976: "The Chemical Elements of Life" by Earl Friden.