Salt is vital for life. Without salt, you will die. Salt creates conductivity in our bodies. Conductivity is the ability of cells, especially nerve and muscle cells, to transmit electrical pulses. The human body works well as a conductor of electricity, due to its high fluid content and electrolytes, like sodium, potassium, and chloride.

As an energetical being, the human body has electrical pulses found mostly in the heart, the central nervous system (which includes the brain and spinal cord), the nerves, and certain endocrine cells. Without proper conductivity, the electrical pulses could not move through the body efficiently.

It is important to know that all salt is not the same. Mineral salt contains magnesium, zinc, chloride, iodine, manganese, selenium, copper, cobalt, fluorine, sodium, potassium, calcium, and iron, or a combination of these, depending on where it is mined and other environmental factors. It helps with nerve fuction, fluid balance, oxygen transport in the blood, bone health, muscle function (your heart is a muscle), etc.

Bleached white table salt, which is ultra-refined, has no benefit at all. Because the minerals have been removed, table salt causes inflammation, fluid retention, high blood pressure, and disease. For this reason, experts say salt is bad. The World Health Organization recommends reducing salt to nearly zero. Reducing table salt to zero is a step toward health.

Many of us eat out, probably more than we should. Most restaurants use bleached white table salt and other salt additives. This is why your hands feel tight, your feet swell, and you feel your blood pressure going up after eating. We won't even talk about what restaurant foods are fried in. 

When recommending clients increase their water intake, many don't like the idea because they have to use the bathroom too often. If water goes right through you, you do not have the proper mineral levels to push the water into your cells. You are dehydrated. I had the same problem. I began using a 1/4 tsp of Redmond's mineral salt in my 32oz water bottle. That problem stopped without fluid retention, inflammation, or high blood pressure.