THE DIRT ON SALT (AND WATER)

Salt

Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures, particularly humans.  Water and salt regulate the water content of the body.  Water itself regulates the water content of the interior of the cell by working its way into all of the cells it reaches.  It has to get there to cleanse and extract the toxic wastes of cell metabolism.

Salt forces some water to stay outside the cells.  It balances the amount of water that stays outside the cells.  There are two oceans of water in the body; one ocean is held inside the cells of the body, and the other ocean is held outside the cells.  Good health depends on a most delicate balance between the volume of these oceans, and this balance is achieved by salt…unrefined salt.

When water is available to get inside the cells freely, it is filtered from the outside salty ocean and injected into the cells that are being overworked despite their water shortage.  This is the reason why, in severe dehydration, we develop an edema and retain water.

The design of our bodies is such that the extent of the ocean of water outside the cells is expanded to have the extra water available for filtration and emergency injection into vital cells.  The brain commands an increase in salt and water retention by the kidneys.

The reason that we get an edema is when we don’t drink enough water.  Initially, the process of water filtration and its delivery into the cells is more efficient at night when the body is horizontal.  The collected water, which mostly pools in the legs, does not have to fight the force of gravity to get into the blood circulation.

If reliance of this process of emergency hydration of some cells continues for long, the lungs begin to get water-logged at night and breathing becomes difficult.  The person needs more pillows to sit upright to sleep.  This condition is the consequence of dehydration.  However, you might overload the system by drinking too much water at the beginning.  Increases in water intake must be slow and spread out until urine production begins to increase at the same rate that you drink water.

When we drink enough water to pass clear urine, we also pass out a lot of the salt that was held back.  This is how we can get rid of edema fluid in the body: by drinking more water.  Not diuretics, but more water!!

In people who have an extensive edema and show signs of their heart beginning to have irregular or very rapid beats with least effort, the increase in water intake should be gradual and spaced out, but not withheld from the body.  Naturally, salt intake should be limited for two or three days because the body is still in an overdrive mode to retain it.  Once the edema has cleared up, salt should not be withheld from the body.

Salt has many other functions than just regulating the water content of the body.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE MORE VITAL FUNCTIONS OF SALT IN THE BODY:

1. Salt is most effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeats and, contrary to the misconception that it causes high blood pressure, it is actually essential for the regulation of blood pressure in conjunction with water.  Naturally, the proportions are critical.
2. Salt is vital to the extraction of excess acidity from the cells in the body, particularly the brain cells.
3. Salt is vital for balancing the sugar levels in the blood, a needed element in diabetics.
4. Salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy in cells in the body.  It is used for local power generation at the sites of energy need by the cells.
5. Salt is vital to the nerve cells’ communication and information processing all the time that the brain cells work, from the moment of conception to death.
6. Salt is vital for absorption of food particles through the intestinal tract.
7. Salt is vital for the clearance of the lungs of mucus plugs and sticky phlegm, particularly in asthma and cystic fibrosis.
8. Salt is vital for clearing up catarrh and congestion of the sinuses.
9. Salt is a strong natural histamine neutralizer.
10. Salt is essential for the prevention of muscle cramps.

Proud FDR owners, for more ways that salt performs vital functions in the body, refer to Worth Your Salt in FDR Vol 3 pp 146 – 149

Excerpt from Don’s FDR Vol 3 pp 146.

Don recommends this great Raw Sun-Processed Sea Salt.

Bread and Butter diseases are non-organic disease conditions. They are either natural to a persons genetic inheritance or a simple functional disorder that can be corrected with a good diet high in raw, wholefoods.

High cholesterol is a non disease. If you’ re concerned and you eat dead animals – stop doing that as a starting point. High blood pressure amounts to nothing but dehydration and a lack of salt, so increase your intake of these. Type 2 diabetes is a non-disease and can be corrected in 14-28 days by eating raw, plant foods. Arthritis is simply too much meat and not enough fresh foods and water over time and distance. Eating cherries will help speed up the remissive process.

These are just some examples but I hope you get the picture on “Bread and Butter” disease that the medical industry seems to thrive on.