The truth is, every cell in your body needs salt to function as it should. You literally can’t be healthy without enough salt in your diet. Where the confusion exists is with regards to the type of sodium you put in your body.  

The refined, table salt varieties are so far removed from the original that they deplete your system of nutrients. They do this while elevating blood pressure and set you up for a lifetime of cardiovascular issues.

Table salt contributes to hypertension

Perhaps the most commonly reported health condition associated with table salt consumption is hypertension. Hypertension refers to chronically elevated blood pressure. It’s a situation that can lead the way to life-threatening conditions like heart disease and stroke. The means by which table salt and other refined salt varieties cause this are varied. But the largest contributor is on account of elevated fluid retention.

The more table salt you eat, the more your body holds onto water. This, in turn, elevates your blood pressure. A 2006 study examined the relationship between sodium intake and hypertension. Researchers found that a 30 percent decrease in average salt intake over the past 30 years resulted in a 10 mmHg fall in the population average of both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

Table salt contributes to heart disease

As discussed above, elevated blood pressure from consumption of refined table salt can significantly increase your risk of heart conditions, heart disease and stroke. When you suffer from high blood pressure, your heart has to work harder to push blood around your body. Your heart is a muscle. And when muscles need to work harder, they become thicker and larger. To cope with the added work, your heart thickens and grows. Over time, this can actually make it more difficult to beat as it should.

This can lead to the development of heart failure. The disease is characterized by an irregular heartbeat. Depending on which side of your heart is affected, the disease can lead to a range of symptoms. These include chronic fatigue, breathlessness and coughing up of frothy phlegm. If the right side of your heart is affected by heart failure, you can experience swollen feet, ankles and legs. Either way, it’s not ideal!

Table salt contributes to stroke

A stroke can occur when high blood pressure narrows the blood vessels in your brain. This can run the risk of those vessels becoming blocked and bursting. At this point, the brain fails to receive vital oxygen that would otherwise have been supplied by those blood vessels, resulting in damage to certain areas. This is classified as a stroke. It can lead to serious disability or even death.

A 2013 study published in the Journal BMJperformed a meta-analysis of 14 cohort studies and five randomized controlled trials relating to cardiovascular disease, stroke and heart disease. In addition, the meta-analysis included 37 randomized controlled trials measuring blood pressure, renal function and a range of other cardiovascular markers. Across the board, the various studies collectively showed that a reduction in sodium intake significantly reduced both systolic blood pressure and resting diastolic blood pressure. On the other hand, increase sodium intake was associated with an increased risk of stroke, stroke mortality and coronary heart disease.

Table salt is bleached

There’s a reason why your table salt is so pristinely white — and it’s not a natural reason! In order to produce standardized, mass-production friendly white granules, table salt manufacturers bleach their salt white. If you’ve ever bought natural, unrefined sea salt or rock salt, you would have noticed that it’s never all the same color. It can be anything from dark grey to bright pink. That bleach which makes your table salt so nice is still in your salt. That means you’re ingesting a little bit of bleach every time you sprinkle it on your food. Delicious.

Table salt is a waste of time and energy

For those not overly interested in their own health, there’s still plenty of other reasons why you should avoid table salt like the plague. In my opinion, table salt tastes so much worse than natural, unrefined sea or rock salt. I find that I need to add a whole lot more table salt to my meals to get the same satiation factor as I would with natural sea salt. That means that with every meal, I’m elevating my blood pressure and dehydrating my cells.

The next thing to consider is that table salt is completely devoid of the multitude of trace minerals that were present in it’s original form. There’s really no connection between natural salt and table salt. The latter has been so refined and processed that the result is simply sodium and chloride… nothing else! On the other hand, natural sea salt contains plenty of potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, iodine, manganese and zinc. Your average table salt variety contains nothing of any real value to your body. Some table salts have had iodine added back in after refining. However, this is an artificial form of iodine and difficult for your body to metabolize.

For these reasons, why would you ever bother with table salt? It tastes worse, has no nutritional value, elevates blood pressure and increases your risk of heart disease and stroke. It’s really not worth the efforts.

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The refined salt producers spend so much on campaign, making people believing that their salt is better but it's actually malnourished since active ingredients in organic salt are already bleached away during processing.