The Benefits of Salt for the Immune System

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let’s talk about the benefits of using salt for your immune system there’s a certain chemical right here it’s called hypochlorite that is a chemical name for bleach i’m not sure you realize this but two of your immune cells actually make bleach to kill microbes the neutrophils and the macrophages and both of these are phagocytes and what does that mean it means that these cells actually eat bacteria and viruses and fungus and mold and candida so when they eat the microbe they pull it in they encapsulate the microbe and they pour in chemicals one of the chemicals they pour in is bleach and guess how your body makes bleach from chloride as in sodium chloride so it comes from salt so if you don’t have enough salt in your body this mechanism or weapon used by these two cells becomes severely compromised so your defense mechanism is diminished so hypochlorite bleach is a broad spectrum microbicide which basically poisons the microbe it’ll kill bacteria within milliseconds and it’s much much stronger than another chemical that these guys use called hydrogen peroxide and as a side note if these immune cells run into the unfriendly form of candida they’ll start dumping a lot of hypochlorite into the system to kill the candida and certain reports indicate that it’ll release between 70 and 80 percent of the chloride reserve so they can actually make more hypochlorite and what’s interesting when i was in practice i noticed that certain people that came in that had a candida infection or overgrowth of candida also had a very pungent smell about them which basically was similar to bleach and that was probably the immune system trying to wipe out the candida and as a side note if you have candida the most important thing to do is not to consume bleach but to consume salt to actually help your body make more bleach as well as bring your carbs way down to zero because candida lives on sugars and glucose so now let’s talk about what would cause a deficiency in salt of course the obvious thing is not consuming enough salt you need about one to one and a half teaspoons okay level teaspoons of salt per day if you’re not exercising if you’re sweating a lot and you’re sweating out electrolytes specifically sodium or chloride you need more salt now when you do the ketogenic diet you need more sodium to prevent something called keto flu now when you’re deficient in sodium you can have a lot of the symptoms that mimic the flu without being the flu there’s no infection involved but a deficiency of sodium will cause muscle weakness muscle achiness headaches lethargy dizziness not necessarily mucus but a lot of the other symptoms and when you actually go from burning sugar to burning fat and producing ketones you’re going to lose a lot of the fluid retention and with that you lose a lot of sodium now with the immune system you need the other half of sodium you need the chlorides i think the chlorides are pretty much not really emphasized very much we always talk about sodium but i think this is a very ignored mineral chloride is also needed to make hydrochloric acid to also kill off pathogens that can come into your stomach but it’s definitely needed for the immune system to build up phagocytes another way that you can become deficient in salt is having diarrhea vomiting taking diuretics consuming a lot of potassium without salt i mean even if you were to consume 10 cups of vegetables you may find that you start getting a salt craving so you definitely need the balance of salt with potassium as well if your adrenals are burnt out you’re going to need a little bit more salt if you drink too much water you will dilute the body’s electrolytes specifically sodium chloride now there’s a condition called hyponatremia which is low sodium in your blood which usually comes from just drinking like gallons of water so you want to drink enough but just realize if you drink too much you’re going to deplete your sodium and even chlorides as well if you’re doing some type of endurance exercise running marathon triathlon things like that you definitely need a lot more salt now a football player in practice in the summer could sweat out about six teaspoons of salt in that one workout so the salt that you need is really dependent on your activity level and how much you sweat anyway i wanted to talk about the importance of salt for the immune system as well as preventing the keto flu and i always recommend when you’re taking salt to take sea salt himalayan sea salt is one of my favorites thanks for watching hey we’re back with another amazing recipe no grains no sugar totally keto there’s no suffering on keto absolutely not Karen and it’s an immune system builder absolutely you have to check this out i think you should hurry up watch the recipe and make it yourself it’s just so easy to be keto but is it simple it’s super simple we hope you enjoy making it as much as we are enjoying eating it