By Kayode Oseni
Salt, in all its natural forms, plays a crucial role in maintaining our health. The most familiar variety, common table salt, is primarily used to enhance the flavor of our food. This cooking salt comes in a range of colors—grey, pink, off-white, and even black—each uniquely rich in minerals beyond just sodium (Na) and chloride (Cl).
Unfortunately, when science stripped salt down in the laboratory, solely combining Na and Cl to create table salt, it inadvertently began to negatively impact our health. Instead of correcting this oversight, the scientific community merely added iodine, presenting it as “iodized salt.” But what about the other 50+ minerals found in nature’s salt?
Does science really believe that Nature doesn’t know what it’s doing?
With the rise of numerous health issues, conventional medicine became overwhelmed and started attributing many problems to salt without distinguishing which type they were referencing. Salt is essential for our health, starting from the cellular level; after all, water and salt go hand in hand. Remember those simple osmosis experiments from biology class? Water flows from areas of higher concentration to lower concentration through a semi-permeable membrane—like your cell walls.
Take high blood pressure, for instance. Conventional medicine often blames it on excessive salt intake, specifically the lab-produced NaCl. Their solution is to prescribe diuretics, which make you urinate more. But here’s the catch: as you urinate, you lose body salt. Soon, you may experience the adverse effects of low salt in and around your cells: puffiness in your legs and face, cramps, and strain on your kidneys.
The remedy lies in returning to nature’s salt, which is balanced with other minerals that prevent Na and Cl from overwhelming our cells. Therefore, my assertion, after over 30 years as a practitioner of natural medicine, is clear: we should be using sea salt instead of laboratory-made salt.
Nature’s salt is vital for good health; it is laboratory salt that is the true enemy!
- Prof. Kayode Oseni is a Consultant Physician of Natural Medicine, and CEO: Alayo Health And Wellness Center, Abeokuta.
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