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0:00 Introduction: Himalayan sea salt, Celtic sea salt, and other types of sea salt
0:10 What is Himalayan sea salt?
0:38 Celtic Sea Salt
1:07 Redmond Real Salt
1:40 Table salt vs. sea salt
2:35 Baja Gold sea salt
3:09 Understanding sodium chloride
4:04 Salt sensitivity
4:32 Sodium deficiency
5:47 Sodium and fasting
6:34 The problems with table salt
8:25 Low-salt diets
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Let’s talk about sea salt.
It’s important to get sea salt that has been extracted from parts of the world with very low, or zero, microplastics.
The best types of sea salt are:
• Himalayan sea salt
• Celtic Sea Salt
• Redmond Real Salt sea salt
• Baja Gold sea salt
All of these types of sea salt contain sodium chloride and trace minerals.
If you want a sea salt that’s higher in trace minerals, you might want to go with Baja Gold. But, if you need more sodium chloride, the other types of sea salt I’ve mentioned are all great choices.
Table salt, or sodium chloride, only has two minerals. Sea salt has between 60 and 94 minerals. Regular salt can also come from very polluted areas and can contain microplastics. Microplastics can affect the body’s endocrine system.
People who are salt-sensitive may really just need to go on a low-carb diet and consume more potassium.
You need sea salt to support a healthy body. A deficiency in sodium or chloride can lead to all kinds of issues.
If you’re deficient in sodium, you may feel more anxiety and have trouble sleeping. Sodium deficiency can impact your immune system and lead to high blood pressure. Sea salt also helps hydrate you, and without enough sodium, your risk for insulin resistance goes up.
If you’re on keto and are doing intermittent fasting, it’s essential to consume enough sea salt. If you don’t, you could experience symptoms like low blood pressure, dehydration, and overall weakness. If you exercise, your need for sea salt goes up even more.
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Thanks for watching! I hope this helps increase your awareness of the importance of sea salt and the best types of sea salt. I’ll see you in the next video.
60 responses to “Himalayan vs. Celtic Sea Salt: WHICH IS BETTER?”
Appreciate Dr. Berg 😊 this video has answered so many questions as i cut out salt as much as possible but i realised my body needed salt 😊
I live near the town of Pakistan where the Himalayan salt mines are located. I have had asthma since I was three years old. I cured my asthma at the age of 23 last year through prolonged exposure to Himalayan salt. In the Khewra mine, there are chambers where people can lie down, rest, and absorb the healing properties of Himalayan salt. I cured my asthma by lying down in these chambers with salt beds for a few hours every week.
AWESOME!😃 I’m glad ur healed from it!
I have asthma and have been learning about the connection to salt. I use Himalayan salt in recipes and I love it, so flavorful. Thank you for sharing your amazing story 💙🙏🏻
I drink 3 to 4 cups of coffee daily, and I love salty food. Now, Dr. Berg helps me to understand the reason….I am losing 4 teaspoons just by drinking coffee alone. No more guilt about craving for salty food 😊
@@supremelysoigne Thanks! Appreciate it!
Hello Dr.Berg. You have helped me lose 70lbs in 2018-2019 and I recently gained some of it back however I am going back on keto starting tomorrow and recently received my order of Dr.Berg electrolytes Magnesium glycinate vitamin D3-K2 and also just placed an order for Celtic sea salt because I love salting my steak 24hrs ahead of time and also love using it in my coffee. I just wanted to thank you for helping me with my over all health with your endless free information and your quality vitamins and products that you also give us free knowledge of how they work and their benefits. Congradulations on your YouTube success you deserve it for all you do for the health of the world while other doctors do nothing but push products to mask problems instead of giving us knowledge on how to fix problems like you do. I cant thank you enough and that’s why I buy your products to support you like you support us. Thank you
Totally agree. Thank you, Dr. Berg!
Yes its true! Thank you Dr. Berg you really have a golden heart
You’re so right! If we can, we should support him by buying his quality supplements like he supports us!
Well done. Keep it going.
I used to be so salt sensitive that I got so tired after eating a normal dose I almost passed out. I didn’t feel bad or anything it was just like knockout sleeping pills. I wonder why that is, it felt like it might kill me some day.
But now I am no longer salt sensitive at all, thanks to your advice. I noticed that I need a lot more potassium than I ever consumed before.
Also it is true, after an hour of intensive exercise, I lose all energy without extra salt and potassium. Not surprising since I sweat out around 2 liters of water per hour according to my water consumption.
I used to follow common wisdom, thinking I just need to take extra magnesium, but that didn’t help at all.
It is quite bothersome to try to share that information with others online, since someone will immediately tell you how dangerous potassium allegedly is. It’s quite interesting how misinformed the most informed people online are.
Any time I listen to your advice, it makes me feel significantly better, when mainstream advice at best did nothing or at worst made me feel worse. And I used to be a bed ridden basket case. So I can’t thank you enough.
I agree. Potassium is so important but it’s rarely highlighted and everyone has been taught to be afraid of salt. Not realizing it’s the very processed table salt that can be a problem.
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
I take 1/2 tsp. of potassium bicarb with each tablespoon of ACV; people will scoff at anything that is different. In this case, ignorance is not bliss in the long run. Don’t let it bother you. Take care:)
PS. Pottenger’s Human channel does a video on why we need more sodium, and why the potassium bicarb when taking ACV (essential). I also don’t worry about salt intake, eating extremely low carb and all food cooked from scratch. You know what’s best for you. x
I’ve experimented with different combinations and brands of electrolytes (eating more greens etc) with mixed results in after lunch energy and focus. The popular sports brand (LMNT) was TERRIBLE for me causing heart palpitations. It’s very high in salt and not much potassium. I’ve found that Dr. Berg’s most recent formulation of electrolyte powder is best for me. It’s much higher in potassium which helps balance all the salt I take in meals. I work outside a lot gardening and home renovations and find I thrive on a 12 oz glass of water with Dr.Berg powder and a TBSP ACV at 3pm every afternoon keeps me going – especially in summer!
In Korea they have Jugyeom. It is prepared by packing bay salt in a thick bamboo stem, and baking it nine times on high temperature using pine firewood. Burns away the microplastics and adds extra nutrients from the bamboo and yellow clay used for sealing. Not sure how healthy it is, but it is very popular.
Ya but like $80 an oz!
Yep
@Petesworkshop2225 Japanese stuff is almost always expensive but good.
Thank you Dr. Berg for always helping us staying healthy. I buy and take several of your supplements…D3K2, electrolytes, magnesium, trace mineral, B1, cod liver oil, digestive stuff and some others.
Excellent topic. I have purchased all three of the salts mentions. I had been using pink Himalayan salt for years I didn’t even know there was a Celtic sea salt or Redmonds Until recently. The Celtic salt is more costly and seems to be out of stock more often. I like it a lot and it’s flavor differs.
I like Himalyan Sea Salt due to the fact that it is less ‘salty’ than NaCl. I use whole pepper corns also in a pepper grinder when adding this to my foods.
Same
its a really different taste to normal salt actually .. every meal tastes bette with it .. although some things seem tastier with the normal salt, eggs for example
Me, too. I keep two pepper grinders in my kitchen; one is for black peppercorns, and the other is for white peppercorns.
Himalayan salt is saltier than sea salt 😉
I was told a few years back I have high blood pressure and then strongly told I need to watch my intake of salt. I then went and saw a different doctor and he too told me the same thing, but he did some basic blood work too. So when I got my results back and I myself noticed my sodium was under normal range a little bit I asked the doctor, how can I have high blood pressure and you told me to watch my salt intake and don’t use much and there’s Mrs. Dash yet, my sodium shows it’s below where I’m suppose to be. He look like a deer in headlights. Stuck!
Then he said, it could be from other things too. I said yeah not enough potassium and electrolytes. Didn’t say much after that.
By the way, my low sodium levels were a result of drinking too much water and not replenishing my electrolytes while I was sick. I was allowing my fever to run its course and was also fasting, and all of that combined caused my sodium levels to drop. Don’t make the same mistake as me, lol. I am now drinking a liter of electrolyte water every day and have reduced my water intake because I was drinking way too much water in general. I always thought my pee should be clear but apparently that means you are overhydrated.
Thanks for your advice.
Yep doctors go through years of training. They’re taught to think of the human body as a machine never taught to think how things are connected and how an imbalance here will have an effect on several other processes. This could be why cancer is up so high. Heart disease is higher than it’s ever been.
Doctors are not taught enough about nutrition. If anything. Unless they research on their own
A Magnesium deficiency causes high BP
I’ve mentioned about Celtic Salt a long time ago and Dr. Berg response was…”there are many types of salts”. Already knowing this, I’ll stand by my initial comment about Celtic Salt in that it contains the highest amount of trace minerals than any other salts.
Well, in the video he doesn’t down play any salt buttable salt. He basically said watch for the plastics in the salt, know where it’s coming from and YOU YOU YOU decide what salt you’d like based on the amount of minerals you want.
So, it sounds like Celtic Sea salt was your choice. Great!
Dr. Berg saying there’s many different salts still stands with Absalute Truth.
Happy salt eating!
And the highest amount of plastic
@@JohnnyCamaro13 Cap
I appreciate Dr. Berg doing the research because I’d heard that plastics were a concern in Celtic salt. I use both types. I’m in USA so I use Redmonds all day in my food and water but use Celtic for a somewhat sweeter flavor in my coffee AND I use it to soak some psoriasis patches on my legs. It reduces itching and inflammation, and one patch has completely returned to soft normal skin, although still a dark stain after a year. (I’ve read that swimming in the ocean can resolve skin problems).
Castor oil can help too
@@rosemarylavender2222you mean for skin problems?
@@rosemarylavender2222 I just started that this week coincidentally. Seeing some changes so hopefully doing both will clear it up faster than a year. Tks
Dr. Berg, this video could not have come at a better time. I had a seizure a couple of weeks ago that was caused by low sodium. I got a concussion from my head hitting the ceramic floor and my lip was split in half. I was home alone and according to my smart watch, the whole event lasted several minutes. Fortunately, I don’t remember 99% of the event. I somehow made my way across the kitchen but I don’t remember how. I am extremely lucky that I didn’t hurt myself more than that.
The doctor said my sodium levels were dangerously low, so I’ve been learning more about this topic and your information is by far the best. I’ve been making my own electrolyte water but it sounds like I need to add more potassium to my electrolyte mix. Thank you!!
Great. Hope the info here will help you.
I was taking himalyan Salt but due to my increase in High bilirubin levels i take salts in very moderately and I also do a low carbohydrate diet and intermittent fasting for every 3 hour window because I have to maintain a healthy weight for my sports courier 🎉
Much love 💝 and
Always in touch My man 😉
Thank you. Wishing you good health!
As a child I used to feel very travel sick,and some elderly relative told me to eat something salty before and during travelling. It helped!
Dr. Berg, you, and all your’s advices for having a good health, save my life!!! I never knew that we needed salt 🧂! Thank you! God bless you and your beautiful family always!🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️
Eric, you’re onto something that can have a HUGE and immediate impact on human health across the board. Our immune systems are deficient due to diminishing levels of hydrochloric acid which is used to make various types of salts to cancel out pathogens. Many people are using Sodium Chlorite (a chlorite salt) plus any strong acid such as citric acid or hydrochloric acid to create chlorine dioxide which our immune systems make naturally but, today, in insufficient quantities due to many factors. When Chlorine Dioxide (ClO2) comes into contact with a pathogen they cancel each other out due to opposite polarities. ClO2 is positive and pathogens are negative. ClO2 travels directly to the pathogens because opposite charges attract each other. If I feel an illness coming on I simply take one to 3 drops of ClO2 and it knocks it out in one to two hours. There’s a ton of testimony on line about knocking out just about everything there is that attacks the human body. It’s all about electrical charges and polarity. All pathogens seem to be the same, negatively charged intruders that are easily canceled out.
For about 5 months I have been mixing 1/4 teaspoon of Himalayan salt with juice of 1/2 lime, about 6 ounces of water and a splash of Apple cider vinegar. The change in my body has been eye opening. My skin has become elastic again and many wrinkles have disappeared. I also feel as if I can breathe easier.
1 glass a day?
@@Jeffreymart 1st thing in the morning. Once a day
@@Jeffreymart here another one copying his youtube guru
you would get the same effect from normal table salt dont get it twisted
Wow, great info , I’m in a keto zero carb diet for 4 months already , with OMAD, and felt weak specially when doing sports, I’m sure it’s because lack of salt in my diet. Thanks Dr.Berg, will add himalayan salt to the steak and salad I eat every day.
I’ve been using pink Himalayan salt in my food over any other type of salt for years. A little goes a long way. I’m not sure if it has benefitted me, but I also sprinkled some in the water while bathing.
Gotta be careful where you buy it though. Some companies add dye or food colouring to other types of salt and label it as pink Himalayan.
Try putting a small crystal of salt under your tongue to resolve mostly then a sip of water. Not together less absorption of salt and minerals.
@@elizabethjansen2684 Thanks, I’ll give it a try 💜
Hi Dr Berg and everyone else. I heard the other day that a study was done on Himalayan salt and they were finding heavy metals left in the salt because of the way it was mined and was recommending the Celtic salt. Has anyone else heard this before and is it true?
I’ve Heard that too and would like to know if it’s true.
I think the two of you and anyone else should really look into the source of the salt they prefer and further look into where and who’s bringing the information to test the truth behind it. At that point use self Autonomy.
Happy salt eating!