Posted by Larry Hoover on May 30, 2006, at 12:56:24
In reply to Re: sea salt link!! » LOOPS, posted by john berk on May 13, 2006, at 20:03:16
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> Hi LOOPS,
> Thanks for replying, i wasn't sure i would get any feedback, lol. i take a bath in epsom salts once or twice a week for the magnesium, it is very relaxing, and for the last 2 weeks i have been taking half a teaspoon of sea salt.The natural springs at Epsom, in England, were valued for their ability to ease people's ills. Not for drinking, as the water was not fit for drinking. For bathing in. That salt, Epsom salt, is magnesium sulphate.
There is nothing magic about Celtic sea salt, of which I am aware. It's just salt. Most of the salt in the sea is sodium chloride. Sodium ions and chloride ions just happen to be very common. Less commonly found are the trace minerals, so called because they are less commonly found dissolved in the ocean. There are just traces of them. Funny that.
They are many dissolved minerals in salt derived from drying sea water. I doubt there is a huge variation, place to place, as the ocean has been churning together for millenia. Maybe sea salt for one location does pick up local sources of some of the trace minerals, i.e. higher than average concentrations of a few dissolved ions that had not yet dispersed in the greater ocean. I dunno. I haven't seen that demonstrated anywhere.
> your so right, we are from the sea pre-historically speaking, i'm sure those trace minerals are so effective in keeping us healthy, i'm really into supplemental magnesium, have a great weekend...john
Table salt has been stripped of the trace minerals. It has been processed, to remove the magnesium to make airplanes, and so on.
Sea salt has not been similarly processed, but whether there are substantial amounts of trace minerals present is probably unlikely, nonetheless. Sodium chloride will still be the dominant salt.
Lar
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