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Posted by john berk on May 2, 2006, at 16:31:48
Hi, I know the title of my thread is a bit odd, but i have read a few interesting stories on-line lately about the use of celtic sea salts, [it has to be this particular brand, other sea salts are just soduim]and how it can help with depression!!
supposedly, it is 70-80 per cent sodium, but the other 20 per cent or so are "charged" minerals, including magnesium and lithium in very small amounts!!
i will find the article i was reading and post it, but i was curious has anyone tryed these salts. i'm taking a half-teaspoon in the evening, and seem to sleep better, and wake more zestful, but i still can't say about depression.i searched the archives and i think "Larry Hoover" mentions them briefly. please let me know if anyone is familiar with this, i got some at my local health food store....john
Posted by john berk on May 2, 2006, at 16:35:14
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=408&i=362
hi, this is the thread i found of some interest...john
Posted by LOOPS on May 13, 2006, at 19:56:35
In reply to sea salt link!!, posted by john berk on May 2, 2006, at 16:35:14
Hi John -
I'm not sure about taking sea salt itself - but I do have some 'trace mineral drops' from that lake in Utah which contain magnesium chloride and trace minerals (including boron and lithium). I really like them - you can like add the stuff to drinking water etc.
I think seeing as we came from the sea we probably need more of the trace minerals in it!
Sea water is very rich in magnesium - I try to bathe in it as much as possible. This is also why algae such as kelp are so rich in magnesium. I once took daily baths adding seaweed powder to the water (for my skin) and actually felt better during this period emotionally. At this point I never thought it was the minerals in the bath.
Minerals are great.
Loops
Posted by john berk on May 13, 2006, at 20:03:16
In reply to Re: sea salt link!!, posted by LOOPS on May 13, 2006, at 19:56:35
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.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
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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