welcome i'm dr janine barry naturopathic doctor guiding you on your health journey and of course
doing it naturally today i'm talking about which salt is best so we know these days we have a lot
of different opportunities and different choices to make in choosing the best salt to consume i
have other videos on why salt is really important for our body so make sure you check that out but
which salt is best so let's go through some of what is available to us and i'll sort of hint
at which ones i prefer so first of all we have regular run-of-the-mill table salt and this is
usually highly highly processed so this is heavily ground down you can usually tell by looking at it
it doesn't look like natural salt that you would see in nature it ha often has anti-caking agents
that are used things like heavy metals aluminum can be added into it and even sugar so dextrose
can be added to the sodium chloride which is what table salt is now they also will add iodine
so if it says iodized on the package they will add potassium iodide which again is synthetically made
for adding in that extra iodine because a lot of people of course have an iodine deficiency
and natural salt from the sea will contain some natural iodine so let's talk now a little bit
about sea salt because that's another alternative that a lot of people like to go in this root now
the problem with depending on which c it comes from but by its nature sea salt contains other
important minerals so things like potassium iron we know that it has calcium and magnesium as well
but again depending on where it comes from there could be a contamination issue with sea salt so it
may contain some micro plastics which we know are in the oceans but also heavy metals which we know
are toxic and have negative impacts on our health as well so that's something to be aware of there
are some salt mines that are naturally occurring in utah which have less of that toxicity concern
and that is a sea salt now himalayan salt so it's very interesting if you actually
know about the origin of himalayan salt it's not from the himalayas it is actually from a
salt mine in pakistan so this is something that again a lot of people don't realize this but
himalayan salt does have a lot of these naturally occurring minerals as well which is fantastic
and it doesn't really have those toxicity concerns as related to you know some of the other sea salts
and of course the regular table salt so himalayan salt is one of the salts that i use personally
for my cooking and for my family as well so that is definitely one of the better ones in my opinion
now there is also celtic salt so again origins in france and in french cuisine but celtic salt
by its nature has less sodium occurring in it and has more of the other minerals and that's why it's
often sort of a grayish color in pigmentation it does have more calcium and more magnesium
but less of that sodium so for people that are needing to actually increase their sodium intake
based on their perspiration their climate where they live then celtic salt may not be
the best one to go with now i do use some celtic salt a little bit as well in my cooking but i
tend to go more with the himalayan salt myself so i'm curious you know today we talked all about
which salt is best i'm curious which salt you like to use please drop a comment or if you've
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