Is Common Salt Good For You?

Common Salt (sodium chloride) is wholly innutritious and affords no nourishment to the body. It is both indigestible and unassimilable. It enters the body as a crude INORGANIC salt which the body cannot utilize. It is absorbed unchanged, goes the rounds of the general circulation as an unassimilated salt, and is finally eliminated as such. In large doses it is an irritant poison. In smaller doses it is said to be a beneficial stimulant. This is a medical delusion. Stimulation and irritation are identical phenomena. The only difference between the stimulation of small doses and the irritation of large doses is that of degree, not of kind.

Physicians employ a salt free diet in some diseases because of its deteriorating influence upon the nerves, kidneys and lungs. There is no reason to believe why the detrimental influence should not be eliminated in all states of disease and in health, as well. Salt has the same effect upon the tissues and nerves of the body as the effect it has when put in the eyes or on a cut. It is met everywhere with vital resistance. A teaspoon of salt given to a child or to a non-user, increases the heartbeat ten or more beats a minute.

Salt causes a decay of the sense of taste. The sense of taste is not only a very important and necessary factor in adapting the digestive juices to the food eaten, but it is also a guide to the amount of food to eat.

Salt regards gastric digestion.

Salt impairs nutrition. It has a paralyzing effect upon the secretory activities of the vascular endothelium, interfering with the exchange of nutritive substances and waste.

Salt hinders the normal excretion of water by the kidney cells. It impairs the kidney function. Although urination is frequent under such conditions, only small quantities of water are passed at a time.

Toxins are held in suspension with water, and since water ways more than fat, weight loss can be dramatic when we are losing water as a result of reducing the body's toxic load.