7 Warning Signs of a SALT Deficiency

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now i’ve done a lot of videos on the importance of potassium but i have not focused as much on sodium so in this video we’re going to talk about the importance of salt in fact i’m going to give you seven warning signs that you may be salt deficient and of course the biggest way you get sodium is with just salt so we’re going to be focusing on salt in this video why would someone be deficient in salt well they don’t eat salty foods right they’re told they’re salt sensitive or they have high blood pressure so they don’t consume much salt maybe they’re going through a lot of stress the more stress you go through the more salt you actually need let’s say it’s hot out right or you’re sweating you’re going to lose salt now some professional athletes that are working out hardcore in the summer can lose up to six grams of sodium just in one hour so when we’re exercising sweating we can lose a ton of sodium as well as chloride right there’s some reports that show that we lose even more chlorides than we do sodium okay here’s another one high amounts of potassium let’s say you start taking a potassium electrolyte powder and you just neglect to take sodium or salt right well that’s going to throw you off because anytime you look at salt or especially sodium you want to look at it in a balanced state okay not as an individual mineral because when you increase the opposing mineral that’s usually connected with it like potassium you can actually increase it or decrease it depending on what you do to potassium for example if someone is salt sensitive what that really means is they’re low in potassium so here’s the problem if someone doesn’t know that they’re going to start reducing their sodium more and more and more and generate all these side effects that i’m going to talk about what they should do instead is just beef up the other mineral it’s much better to have sufficient amounts of both minerals but in the right ratio but anytime we go up with potassium we need more salt anytime we go up with salt we need more potassium okay you started the ketogenic diet ketones are like diuretics okay you’re going to lose a lot of water and when you lose the water you’re going to lose your salt and you’re going to lose your potassium so you need both of these things to be put back into the body now what about fasting yeah well you’re not eating anything you’re drinking a lot of water you shouldn’t be drinking anything when you’re fasting but you should be consuming sea salt for sure if you are fasting simply because our bodies require as an essential nutrient sodium and chloride or you’re going to have these symptoms which i’m getting to shortly now if you drink coffee let’s say you drink four cups of coffee in a day you’ll lose a half a teaspoon of salt because caffeine depletes sodium which is interesting maybe you want to add a little salt in your coffee i’ve heard that that will actually reduce some of the bitterness okay drinking too much water i’ve done videos just on this topic if you haven’t seen those this would conflict with what you’ve been taught that we need to drink a lot of water everyone knows this but the question is what happens when we drink too much water well guess what we’re going to flush out the electrolytes especially sodium chloride there’s people that have even died by drinking too much water it’s called hyponatremia because you’re diluting sodium so you want to drink when you’re thirsty and there’s no problem drinking a good amount just make sure you also add the sea salt with it okay so these are the reasons why someone’s deficient the key is balancing your salt instead of just restricting your salt or adding more salt make sure you add the opposing mineral potassium if you’re salt sensitive add potassium what does uh salt do well it regulates your fluids it helps you make hydrochloric acid because sodium chloride makes hydrochloric acid okay so if you’re low in hcl let’s say you have heartburn or indigestion especially you might need to beef up your salts okay maintains ph okay the acid alkaline levels it’s involved in the sodium potassium pump which is in every single cell in the body and that is the generator pump for energy for the nerve muscle connection okay very important as well as just generating energy helps glucose absorption and lastly it helps hydrate you an average person needs between one and two teaspoons of sea salt a day now that’s a very rough figure because this does not take in consideration how much sweating or exercise you do but this is definitely a minimum right through in here okay the symptom number one symptom is weakness in your muscles if you’re deficient in salt you’re just going to feel weak lethargy you know you’re going to lose that get up and go dizzy especially if you get up too fast because usually your blood pressure is too low so low blood pressure means you need more sea salt insomnia could be low salt in your diet so if you have insomnia you should try this tonight just put a little bit of salt maybe an eighth of a teaspoon in maybe a half a glass of water mix it up good in about i don’t know an hour and a half before bed slug it down see if you sleep better headache okay that can be a sign that you need more salt muscle cramps and you have a low tolerance to heat so you’re out in the heat you’re out in the sun and you just you can’t tolerate it right some people have intolerance to cold but other people have a low tolerance to heat that means you just need some sea salt now i want to show you this right here this is interesting of course you you already know this that sea salt is better than table salt right i don’t need to go into that but what is sea salt sea salt is concentrated sea water and an average sea salt is between 98 to 99. 8 sodium chloride that only leaves you with point two to two percent of the minerals and the trace minerals that are left okay but i wanna bring up a chart on a a product that i recommend that i actually take i put it on my food that is very different than regular sea salt okay it’s called baja gold sea salt and i put a link down below and what’s unique about this sea salt is it has 77. 5 sodium chloride which leaves room for a lot of other minerals and trace minerals in fact it leaves 22. 5 percent room for all these other minerals so now look at the other ones down below like true salt is 99. 9 cargill purified sea salt untreated is 99.

9 morton’s natural sea salt 99. 9 but there’s other ones that are lower in sodium chloride like the celtic sea salt which is 81. 5 percent okay that’s better and then you have jakinson sea salt which is 85. 3 so you can see this chart there’s a lot of sodium chloride in sea salt but check this out look at calcium right baja gold sea salt is 4490 parts per million compared to the other ones like celtic sea salt is only 1500 parts per million and look at cargill purified sea salt it’s like only 30 parts per million now look at potassium 6 000 parts per million for the baja then if we move down the celtic it’s only 957 so the baja gold is more than six times the amount of potassium but look at jacobson sea salt that’s 438 parts per million in malden sea salt which is only 181 parts per million and look at cargill purified that’s zero zero potassium and then check out magnesium with the baja gold that’s thirteen thousand two hundred parts per million so if you compare it to everything else it’s way off the charts now the question is how can they make salt with less sodium chloride and more minerals well what’s interesting about this salt is the location of where they get it in a pristine part of the world called the sea of cortez and what’s interesting about that is you have the colorado river delta that drains into the sea of cortez so we have fresh water draining into ocean water and that dilutes the amount of