SEA SALT and H2O Retention

[Conscious Midwife]

So I bought so0me Sea salt to add a bit of flavor to my raw creations.

Felt like I gained 2 pounds the next day and felt a bit swollen.

Does this happen to anyone else?

Tried increasing H2O intake yesterday and today so I can have it off by tommorow when I weigh again.

[Davylp25]

Keep drinking more water and you wont retain anything on the days you consume sea salt. If you dont... Bloat bloat. Trust me I have been through this as well. Not fun!

[wyjoz]

Your body will regulate itself. By getting enough water your cells will eventually release the water retained as they will know you'r going to give them more water. But we have a two water system pipes in our body.(yah, some fancy scientific names, lazy to look them up)! Sweet and Salty. They need to be balanced. And you will get balanced.

[Pierre]

Is it refined or unrefined? I've seen sea salt labeled "This salt does not contain iodide".

[Conscious Midwife]

Good question . i'll chack it out next time I'm in my kitchen.

Please don't tell me my organixc Sea Salt may not be raw, but more over processed stuff...

please NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :confused:

[RawFoodieMom]

Is it Celtic sea salt? Yes, unfortunately not all sea salts are created equal. There is the processed kind, then there's himalayan or celtic sea salt, which is what you want.

[LightLover]

Many seasalt that is sold, actually only says: "this salt is from the sea". :confused:

And further you don't have any qualitygarantee. Don't buy it! :rolleyes:

I personally use "haliet" (hymalayan salt in cubeform, which is in the original energyzed crystalsform ) and I think it is one of the best things you can buy in general, there are many threads on hymalyan salt etc...) :p

[Davylp25]

How do you consume the cubed form Him Salt? grind it up?

[rawnora]

Sodium chloride is the same no matter where it comes from, desert or sea. It is poison, which is evidenced by your body's retention of water to dilute its harmful effects. If it wasn't harmful, there would be no retention of water.

Salt does not add flavor to foods, it irritates the nerve endings of the tongue (aka taste buds) so that they are more sensitive to flavors. The end consequence is that taste buds become less sensitive (numb) over time. This is why old people often complain that they can't taste anything.

Salt is bad news. There are many foods that transitioning raw fooders eat which are not particularly healthful but that are fine to eat temporarily while making improvements. I recommend doing so because nobody can go from eating a 'normal' diet to optimal raw overnight or even quickly. Salt is not a borderline food, however, it belongs squarely in the 'harmful' category. It should be omitted from the diet as soon as a person learns of its harmfulness, imo.

Kind regards,
Nora
www.RawSchool.com

[cornvalley]

Sodium chloride is the same no matter where it comes from, desert or sea. It is poison, which is evidenced by your body's retention of water to dilute its harmful effects. If it wasn't harmful, there would be no retention of water.

Salt does not add flavor to foods, it irritates the nerve endings of the tongue (aka taste buds) so that they are more sensitive to flavors. The end consequence is that taste buds become less sensitive (numb) over time. This is why old people often complain that they can't taste anything.

Salt is bad news. There are many foods that transitioning raw fooders eat which are not particularly healthful but that are fine to eat temporarily while making improvements. I recommend doing so because nobody can go from eating a 'normal' diet to optimal raw overnight or even quickly. Salt is not a borderline food, however, it belongs squarely in the 'harmful' category. It should be omitted from the diet as soon as a person learns of its harmfulness, imo.

Kind regards,
Nora
www.RawSchool.com

Ah thank goodness you beat me to it.....Shelton would give ya a big kiss.
:)

[Davylp25]

Hey LightLover dont forget my question?

I never have problems with salt anymore. Nope!

[LightLover]

Well, Davylp25, to answer your question:

- put water in a thin/box/jar;

- make a saturated saltsolution: you have to add the salt cubs to the water
till the water is not taking up the salt anymore.
You can check this: there should always be some unsolved cubes (unbroken) at the bottom.
- from the solution take everyday a theespoon

succes! lightlover
:p

[Conscious Midwife]

Thanks for the replies folks.

[LightLover]

Maybe a strange remark, but it still is in the context of this forum: :D

This "haliet" (himalayan sea salt in cubes) even makes my urine smell
clean and a little bit salty. Anyone knows if that is a good sign? :)

(a sign of detoxing or alkalizing?) :confused:

Sorry to ask, but I am sure there is not one doctor in the Netherlands who is both familiar with this product and can answer this question. :mad:

I think this forum is the best doctor for cases of prevention of illness :p

[Conscious Midwife]

All sources of SALT poisonous......

Hmmmmmm :confused: :eek:

[Cinnamon]

I completely agree with Nora's message, I've avoided adding any type of salt to my diet for many years now. It is also for me a trigger for migraine headaches, that alone is enough to keep me away from it! The bloating in my head is incredible, not fun at all.

[luckitri]

Since attempting raw I have had some salt cravings and so have considered recipes. For those of us whose doctors have restricted use of salt - well the health food industry has told us that we can have all the sea salt we want - just skip the table salt. I am so grateful that everyone here has educated me about sea salt and salt in general! So I am thinking about examples from nature - like salt kills snails and slugs and the fish in my tank but farmers put out salt licks for their livestock - does anyone have any insight on that?

[rawpriestess]

this happens to me any time I ingest any kind of salt, or salty type foods, olives, pickles, dehydrated foods with salt in them,


I mostly just eat fresh fruits, but occasionally, I'll have something, like last night, I had my creamy corn chowder, just one cup, it is delicious, very filling and wonderful, almond milk and corn and Celtic sea salt, and some veggies, wel, this morning 5 pounds gained, now I KNOW it's just water retention, and I drank about 4 liters of water yesterday.

So, I just don't eat anything with salt in it or olives, etc when I need to feel great the next day, it makes me a bit tired, and cranky, but it took me a long time to figure this out. LOL

[cornvalley]

but farmers put out salt licks for their livestock - does anyone have any insight on that?

More weight gain for the animal means more $$$$.

In nature the salt lick is commonly pointed out by advocates of the 'need'.
Animals in the wild like the stimulation from ingesting hard salts regardless of need.
However, animals in the wild get their sodium from living plants in much better form as it is buffered and held in solution with other salts.
Even carnivores eat the animals which ate the plants that drew up sodium from the earth and presented it in combinations with other mineral salts that are nutritionally balanced.
Anyhoo, that how I learned it.

[rawpriestess]

I think it's like anything else, some is okay or tollerated but too much is just that, too much.


but how much is too much, that is the question.

One of the statements that I make to people when they ask me about raw foods vs cooked meat, etc.

is that

If we were to catch, kill and eat our meat the way an animla does, and eat all of it, with no utensils, no cooking, no herbs, spices or salt, then maybe just maybe we were supposed to eat meat, but that isn't how we do it, we don't use our bare hands to hunt and catch, we don't eat it all, bones, intestines, contents of intestines, hair, etc, we don't eat it fresh, we have to clean it, cook it, spice it, sauce it, and change it entirely, we don't have to do that with fruit or veggies, and yet some people do, like when making cakes and pies.

I don't use much salt, I think I used 1 tsp in the last month or more, and that was last night in a creamy corn chowder stew, it was delicious, but I felt very tired afterwards, slept for 9 hours, and today have gained 5 pounds (water weight I'm sure, and yes, I drank 4 liters of water yesterday) and I feel tired and thick headed today.

so, I know what salt does to me, and I don't like the feeling, but to each his own.

and there is a difference in pouring salt into an animlas environment, and allowing them to choose to lick it, BIG DIFFERENCE.

so, the next time you think about eating salt, think about rubbing it all over your body, and not washing it off, it's a bit different than having a dash on your food.

but if it is THAT challenging for us ON our bodies, then I don't like putting too much IN my body.

but hey, that's just me.

[sport]

I read this article at the time that it was going around and I can not understand why I did not take more notice of it.

Last night I was reading an article by Douglas Graham and he states " Give salt water to a man and he dies of dehydration, yet fresh water hydrates us. Remove the salt from the water and you have Celtic Sea Salt, the very thing that causes the dehydration."

I never added salt to my food before going raw but picked up the habit of adding it to avocado since going raw.
Today I gave up salt for ever.

[Conscious Midwife]

Hmmmm

I just new that SEa salt was just a bit to good to be GOOD!

:confused: :p ;)

[Sunshine9]

To throw in my two cents...

I think sodium is ESSENTIAL to maintain balance on a raw food diet and to maintain good digestion. Ideally it should come from sodium rich produce, and because of the large amounts of potassium on a raw food diet I think supplementing with a small amount of good sea salt is necessary. It is cooling and supports hydration.

I think the bloat comes from using too much, or being dehydrated.