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now i’ve done a lot of videos on the

importance of potassium

but

i have not focused as much on

sodium so in this video we’re going to

talk about the importance of salt in

fact i’m going to give you seven warning

signs that you may be salt deficient and

of course the biggest way you get sodium

is with just salt so we’re going to be

focusing on salt in this video

why would someone be deficient in salt

well they don’t eat salty foods right

they’re told they’re salt sensitive or

they have high blood pressure so they

don’t consume much salt

maybe they’re going through a lot of

stress the more stress you go through

the more salt you actually need let’s

say it’s hot out right or you’re

sweating you’re going to lose salt now

some professional athletes that are

working out hardcore in the summer can

lose up to

six grams of sodium just in one hour

so when we’re exercising sweating we can

lose a ton of sodium as well as chloride

right

there’s some reports that show that we

lose even more chlorides than we do

sodium okay here’s another one

high amounts of potassium let’s say you

start taking a potassium electrolyte

powder and you just neglect to take

sodium or salt right well that’s going

to throw you off because anytime you

look at salt or especially sodium you

want to look at it in a balanced state

okay not as an individual mineral

because when you increase the opposing

mineral that’s usually connected with it

like potassium you can actually increase

it or decrease it depending on what you

do to potassium for example if someone

is salt sensitive what that really means

is they’re low in potassium so here’s

the problem if someone doesn’t know that

they’re going to start reducing their

sodium more and more and more and

generate all these side effects that i’m

going to talk about what they should do

instead is just beef up the other

mineral it’s much better to have

sufficient amounts of both minerals but

in the right ratio but anytime we go up

with potassium we need more salt anytime

we go up with salt we need more

potassium

okay you started the ketogenic diet

ketones are like diuretics okay you’re

going to lose a lot of water and when

you lose the water you’re going to lose

your salt and you’re going to lose your

potassium so you need both of these

things to be put back into the body now

what about fasting yeah well you’re not

eating anything you’re drinking a lot of

water

you shouldn’t be drinking anything when

you’re fasting but you should be

consuming sea salt for sure if you are

fasting simply because our bodies

require

as an essential nutrient sodium and

chloride or you’re going to have these

symptoms which i’m getting to shortly

now if you drink coffee let’s say you

drink four cups of coffee in a day

you’ll lose a half a teaspoon of salt

because caffeine depletes sodium which

is interesting maybe you want to add a

little salt in your coffee

i’ve heard that that will actually

reduce some of the bitterness

okay drinking too much water i’ve done

videos just on this topic

if you haven’t seen those

this would conflict with what you’ve

been taught that we need to drink a lot

of water

everyone knows this but the question is

what happens when we drink too much

water well guess what we’re going to

flush out

the electrolytes especially sodium

chloride there’s people that have even

died by drinking too much water it’s

called hyponatremia

because you’re diluting sodium so you

want to drink when you’re thirsty and

there’s no problem drinking a good

amount just make sure you also add the

sea salt with it

okay so these are the reasons why

someone’s deficient

the key is balancing your salt instead

of just restricting your salt or adding

more salt make sure you add the opposing

mineral potassium if you’re salt

sensitive add potassium what does uh

salt do well it regulates your fluids it

helps you make hydrochloric acid because

sodium chloride

makes hydrochloric acid okay so

if you’re low in hcl let’s say you have

heartburn or indigestion especially you

might need to beef up your salts

okay maintains ph okay the acid alkaline

levels it’s involved in the sodium

potassium pump which is in every single

cell in the body and that is the

generator pump for energy

for the nerve muscle connection

okay

very important as well as just

generating energy

helps glucose absorption and lastly it

helps hydrate you an average person

needs between one and two teaspoons of

sea salt a day now that’s a very rough

figure because this does not take in

consideration how much sweating or

exercise you do but this is definitely a

minimum right through in here okay the

symptom number one symptom is weakness

in your muscles if you’re deficient in

salt you’re just going to feel weak

lethargy you know you’re going to lose

that get up and go

dizzy especially if you get up too fast

because usually your

blood pressure is too low so low blood

pressure means you need more sea salt

insomnia could be

low salt in your diet so if you have

insomnia you should try this tonight

just put a little bit of salt maybe an

eighth of a teaspoon in maybe a half a

glass of water mix it up good in about i

don’t know an hour and a half before bed

slug it down see if you sleep better

headache okay that can be a sign that

you need more salt muscle cramps and you

have a low

tolerance

to heat so you’re out in the heat you’re

out in the sun and you just

you can’t tolerate it right some people

have intolerance to cold but other

people have a low tolerance to heat that

means you just need some sea salt

now i want to show you this right here

this is interesting

of course you you already know this that

sea salt is better than table salt right

i don’t need to go into that but what is

sea salt sea salt is concentrated sea

water

and

an average sea salt is between 98 to

99.8

sodium chloride

that only leaves you with point two

to two percent

of the minerals and the trace minerals

that are left okay but i wanna bring up

a chart

on a a product that i recommend that i

actually take i put it on my food that

is very different than regular sea salt

okay it’s called baja gold sea salt and

i put a link down below and what’s

unique about this sea salt

is it has 77.5

sodium chloride which leaves room for a

lot of other minerals and trace minerals

in fact it leaves 22.5 percent room for

all these other minerals so now look at

the other ones down below like true salt

is 99.9 cargill purified sea salt

untreated is 99.9 morton’s natural sea

salt 99.9 but there’s other ones that

are

lower in sodium chloride like the celtic

sea salt which is 81.5 percent okay

that’s better and then you have jakinson

sea salt which is 85.3

so you can see this chart there’s a lot

of sodium chloride in sea salt but check

this out look at calcium right baja gold

sea salt is

4490 parts per million compared to the

other ones like celtic sea salt is only

1500

parts per million and look at cargill

purified sea salt it’s like only 30

parts per million now look at potassium

6 000 parts per million for the baja

then if we move down the celtic it’s

only 957

so the baja gold is more than six times

the amount of potassium but look at

jacobson sea salt that’s 438 parts per

million in malden sea salt which is only

181

parts per million and look at cargill

purified that’s zero zero potassium and

then check out magnesium with the baja

gold that’s thirteen thousand two

hundred parts per million so if you

compare it to everything else it’s way

off the charts now the question is how

can they make salt

with less sodium chloride and more

minerals well what’s interesting about

this salt is the location of where they

get it in a pristine part of the world

called the sea of cortez

and what’s interesting about that is you

have the colorado

river delta that drains into

the sea of cortez so we have fresh water

draining into ocean water and that

dilutes the amount of sodium chloride so

you’re getting all these minerals from

the mountains that are flushed into this

one spot where they then capture the

salt and let it dry naturally by the sun

they don’t artificially dry it like a

lot of other companies and then you’re

left with this very unique product it’s

very interesting on your food it gives

it a completely new flavor i love the

flavor it just enhances the flavor of

food which is very different than the

sea salts which i also use as well but

some of these sea salts are just

overpowering with the sodium chloride so

anyway i just wanted to introduce you to

the baja gold sea salt and

make you aware

of the various

signs that can occur when you’re low in

sodium chloride now on the flip side

potassium

that’s the next video you should watch

and i put that video up right here check

it out