Sodium

•Recommended: 2400 mg per day – about 1 teaspoon
•Permeates the space between cells and with potassium on the inside of cells regulates cell
permeability, allowing for free passage of nutrients and waste
•Bathes cells in a ‘salty ocean’
•Is important to the healthy functioning and balance of the fluids in blood and lymph
•Critical to pH balance
•Necessary to the production of hydrochloric acid used in the stomach for digestion.
•Required for proper nerve functioning and muscle contraction
•If you have salt softened water at home you absorb calcium while bathing or showering,
brushing your teeth, drinking tap water, and even washing clothes
•During the refining of table salt (NaCl), natural sea salt or rock salt is stripped of more than
60 trace minerals and essential macro-nutrients. It is also heated at high temperatures that the
chemical structure of salt changes. It is chemically cleaned and bleached and treated with
anti-caking agents that prevent salt from mixing with water in the salt container. The anticaking
agents perform the same function in the human body so that refined salt does not
dissolve and combine with the water and fluids present in our system - it builds up in the
body and leaves deposits in organs and tissue, causing severe health problems. To make
matters worse, the anti-caking agents are made with aluminum, with the bad taste of the
aluminum being covered by refined sugar.
•If you need to use salt (sodium) with your meal, use unrefined sea salt or rock salt that
contain natural nutrients used by the body much more effectively than refined table salt.
•Processed foods are a major source of hidden refined sodium
•Food Sources: virtually everything we eat. So stay with natural foods like fruits and
vegetables.
Note: I did not supplement sodium as I was getting enough from my diet and was closely
watching all sodium consumption. The information above will help you limit over-abundance
of sodium in your system.