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what!How do you refine salt? I think that this is a furphy. The only thing that is altered with salt, other than adding iodine, is to grind the salt to form salt crystals of a uniform small size so that it pours better from a saltshaker.
However, table salt is refined salt, akin to refining flour and stripping out other nutrients while adding a token mineral such as Iodine back into the mix So Sea Salt (and similar) is better natural salt containing about 90% NaCl and 10% other minerals such as Mg in various amounts. It's a bit hard to overdo the salt if one is healthy and has normal kidney etc function.
How do you refine salt? I think that this is a furphy. The only thing that is altered with salt, other than adding iodine, is to grind the salt to form salt crystals of a uniform small size so that it pours better from a saltshaker.
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Oh, I see, what I get from the store is iodized salt. That is important. You don't want to buy just salt. It must be iodized in order to benefit from it. The stores here in the USA sell both.Flour is milled and to produce White Flour, the husk of the wheat seed is separated from the milled flour.
Salt on the other hand is ground, to produce small salt grains so that it flows better. It is not refined nor can other nutrients be stripped out of the salt. To do so one would require the salt to be dissolved in water and the mineral impurities removed chemically. Since these mineral impurities are not harmful, nor change the flavour etc. of the food, they are left in the table and cooking salt. In Australia even the Cooking salt, with a coarser grain, has iodine added to it.
The following article outlines the health benefits of adding iodine to the salt sold for cooking purposes.
Iodine Deficiency Can Cause Serious SymptomsA deficiency in iodine can cause a long list of symptoms that range from mildly uncomfortable to severe to even dangerous.Among the most common symptoms is a type of swelling in the neck known as a goiter.Your thyroid gland uses iodine to produce thyroid hormones. However, when your body doesn’t have enough of it, your thyroid gland is forced to go into overdrive to try to compensate and make more hormones.This causes the cells in your thyroid to rapidly multiply and grow, resulting in a goiterA decrease in thyroid hormones can also lead to other adverse effects, such as hair loss, fatigue, weight gain, dry skin and increased sensitivity to cold.Iodine deficiency may cause serious issues in children and pregnant women as well. Low levels of iodine can cause brain damage and severe problems with mental development in children.What’s more, it may also be associated with a higher risk of miscarriages and stillbirth.Source link: - Should You Use Iodized Salt? (healthline.com)
Yes, well then maybe the table salt is mined elsewhere (vs sea salt often by evaporation)? I know it's too harsh taken as is due to the other minerals that somehow buffer it. In other words, the reason they don't use that for saline solutions in the medical world. I take amino acid chelated iodine so it should not be a problem with me anyway. That (and any other mineral) absorbs better than just taking I, Fe, Mg in its elemental form.Flour is milled and to produce White Flour, the husk of the wheat seed is separated from the milled flour.
Salt on the other hand is ground, to produce small salt grains so that it flows better. It is not refined nor can other nutrients be stripped out of the salt. To do so one would require the salt to be dissolved in water and the mineral impurities removed chemically. Since these mineral impurities are not harmful, nor change the flavour etc. of the food, they are left in the table and cooking salt. In Australia even the Cooking salt, with a coarser grain, has iodine added to it.
The following article outlines the health benefits of adding iodine to the salt sold for cooking purposes.
Iodine Deficiency Can Cause Serious SymptomsA deficiency in iodine can cause a long list of symptoms that range from mildly uncomfortable to severe to even dangerous.Among the most common symptoms is a type of swelling in the neck known as a goiter.Your thyroid gland uses iodine to produce thyroid hormones. However, when your body doesn’t have enough of it, your thyroid gland is forced to go into overdrive to try to compensate and make more hormones.This causes the cells in your thyroid to rapidly multiply and grow, resulting in a goiterA decrease in thyroid hormones can also lead to other adverse effects, such as hair loss, fatigue, weight gain, dry skin and increased sensitivity to cold.Iodine deficiency may cause serious issues in children and pregnant women as well. Low levels of iodine can cause brain damage and severe problems with mental development in children.What’s more, it may also be associated with a higher risk of miscarriages and stillbirth.Source link: - Should You Use Iodized Salt? (healthline.com)
#1 - i do not know what foods you are eating
This is an article for the hot spells that were and still are going on. It is assumed that a lot of people without air conditioning will be drinking lots of water and sweating, which will deplete their electrolytes.#1 - i do not know what foods you are eating
#2 - Many food products we buy at the Grocery stores have adequate salt.
#3 - ONLY increase salt intake if you are sweating a lot and/or you drinking a lot of water, as this removes salt from your body.
#4 - Low salt in your body - Hyponatremia - Symptoms and causes
#5 - High salt in your body - What Happens If You Eat Too Much Salt?
#6 - WHAT ARE YOUR SYMPTOMS ??????
This is an article for the hot spells that were and still are going on. It is assumed that a lot of people without air conditioning will be drinking lots of water and sweating, which will deplete their electrolytes.
Yes that is why I indicated electrolytes. A sports drink like Gatorade or Powerade is preferable that has sodium, magnesium and potassium. All three are important electrolytes that are perspired when we sweat.Thank you for this info.
YES, sweating and guzzling down water to stay cool causes our salt and other important minerals to become depleted.
IMPORTANT: We lose MINERALS when we sweat/drink lots of water in addition to salt.
Please look up MAGNESIUM and how IMPORTANT it is for our health = many people are 'magnesium deficient'
Low magnesium symptons = 7 Signs and Symptoms of Magnesium Deficiency
Sea salt doesn't have the ability to supply the proper electrolytes. Iodized salt is what is required.If you add salt to your diet make it sea salt, not regular table salt due to its aluminum content.
Natural electrolytes help replenish our body during hot spells. Watermelon, and its juice is one source for that. Coconut water, broccoli, nuts too.
There is historical information about the need and benefits of iodineSea salt doesn't have the ability to supply the proper electrolytes. Iodized salt is what is required.
There is also iodized, iodine, sea salt available.Sea salt doesn't have the ability to supply the proper electrolytes. Iodized salt is what is required.
Unfortunately, I discussed this at my younger brother's funeral. July, Alabama, working in the yard.....came in, told his wife he was going to take a shower and lay down for a while. The shock of the cold shower and laying down .....he never woke up. We have a lot of Doctors we went to school with. We all talked about what killed my brother.
Back in the early '90s a woman, I was on a committee with, always complained about being tried and often had a sleep during the day. This was before sleep apnoea was recognised as a disorder. She snored badly. She went and had an afternoon nap and did not wake up. It was said that she had had a heart attack and died.
Sleep apnoea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. If a person snores there is the potential that the persons breathing is disrupted and they have repeated incidents where their breathing stops and they startle and then begin to breathe again. There are a number of reason/causes for sleep apnoea. It is hereditary in many cases, It also can be associated with being overweight. What happens when a person has multiple incidents of sleep apnoea, is that their oxygen concentrations in their blood becomes lower which can lead to heart muscle damage because the heart muscle is starved of oxygen while they sleep. When I did a sleep study my oxygen concentrations became dangerously low. This muscle damage can lead to fatal heart attacks while people are sleeping who have sleep apnoea.
In 1996 I was trying to discover why I was having micro sleeps during the day. I would fall asleep while driving, in the middle of a conversation with another person, it was not as well understood back then and today obtaining a driver's licences can be affected if the person has sleep apnoea that is not being treated. I have been on a CAPA machine since 1996. It has kept me alive and helped to protect my heart from further problems.
Now I am not suggesting that your brother did not die from heat stroke but taking a cold shower helps the body to dissipate the core body temperature rise associated with very high humidity and physical exertion. The air temperature often has little bearing on suffering from heat stroke whereas very high humidity limits the ability of the body to cool itself and a person becomes "sweaty." A breeze helps a person to cool down when they are sweating. Breathable clothing made from cotton and other natural fibres also aids the body to cool.
Often there are many contributing issues that act together to cause a person to die during high humidity weather patterns.
For me I monitor the number of sleep apnoeas that I have every night. My CAPA machine gives me a report on my sleep patterns every time that I use the machine. I soon discovered that I had to use the CAPA machine, even for an afternoon nap if i intend to lie down for a sleep.
But that is me and I accept that every other person has to discover what is causing them the health issues that they experience and follow the advice they are given from the experts.
Having a good and balanced salt/mineral regime is also important.