I'm another person who was avoiding salt - thinking it was bad for me - and then discovered that I wasn't getting enough salt. My body's temperature regulation was a mess - hot & not sweating with a dry mouth and dry sinus. So I started putting a teaspoon of salt into my morning fruit smoothy - and suddenly all the symptoms went away. I wish I had known sooner.
I've started using sea salt exclusively, since grocery store salt is just extracted NaCl - which isn't what traditional salt, the salt that's been eaten for centuries, really is. Sea salt is said to have a composition of trace elements which closely resembles the human body. Sea salt has a much lower percentage of NaCl than the processed salt.
I should add that I don't eat a lot of processed food. I cook basic foods and put them in the freezer so I can eat them throughout the week. That is most of my diet. So most of my salt was probably just the occasional junk food I would eat.
This is just wrong. Brine wells have been used for centuries, and industrial mining of salt, while newer, has still occurred for hundreds of years.
Further, sea salt and table salt both contain approximately 40% sodium.
If you prefer the taste or texture of sea salt, that's fine, but don't claim that sea salt is inherently better for you, because we have studies that show this isn't the case.
Well, I'm no expert on salt - but as a Neti pot user I can instantly tell when I'm using grocery store salt. And, coincidentally, I worked for several years at the shore beside salt collection fields. We all used to joke that we hoped the salt we bought wasn't from those fields - since the water was known to be very polluted (and fishing was often prohibited.) So I can't take seriously any claim that grocery store salt is the same as any given sea salt. And there are plenty of studies showing significant differences. And, at this point, the only studies I've seen about grocery store salt just tout their purity of NaCl (which, again, is not historically what salt was), and claim that the only significant consideration about salt is the things I don't care about (typically their definition of "purity").
I've started using sea salt exclusively, since grocery store salt is just extracted NaCl - which isn't what traditional salt, the salt that's been eaten for centuries, really is. Sea salt is said to have a composition of trace elements which closely resembles the human body. Sea salt has a much lower percentage of NaCl than the processed salt.
I should add that I don't eat a lot of processed food. I cook basic foods and put them in the freezer so I can eat them throughout the week. That is most of my diet. So most of my salt was probably just the occasional junk food I would eat.