Date:   4/16/2002 9:24:04 AM ( 22 y ago)
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URL:   https://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=25854

First, let me say that you and your fellow-webmasters are running a wonderful, selfless site disseminating desperately needed information to a long-suffering, unhealthy population(particularly Americans..)I direct this commentary/question to you, Agnes, only because I had to choose one of you. Its not personal.
Let me state for the record that I am not a doctor or even in the medical field. I am simply a 37-year old woman who has always been aware of the shortcomings in the western approach to medicine-(specifically in the treatment of Chronic disease). I also discovered a year ago that I have "active" Hep C .Naturally, this discovery prompted me to intensify and specify my researches into "alternative" solutions.
Your sight's chat threads, Links and Q&A's have been interesting and helpful in ways unavailable on other sites. That's why I'd like to mention my surprise to find among so much excellent and accurate info, an enthusiastically active promotion of the "salt Water Cure ". Curezone is certainly not alone in touting the benefits of unrefined "mineral-rich"sea salt. What I find distrubing is that its next to impossible to find info online warning about the dangers of ingestomg Sea Salt (one notable exception is an excerpt from the Bragg Family health series from their book "Water"). It lists commonly held misconceptions organic and inorganic salt. Most mainstream doctors would point to the lack of counter-info as proof that their is none. I know that you at Curezone know better-that whether or not info is generally known or accepted does not determine it's veracity.In fact, it often happens that info is unavaliable due to a purposeful skirting of an unpopular or threatening truth. (I'm not suggesting that is the case here although its important to remember that the "alternative health"industry is driven by financial motivations, lucrative diets and fads. Like any other quickly-growing market all types of opportunists want to get in for the ride.)
Anyway, I believe , a closer look at the chemistry of the the Sea Salt issue and it's possible side-effects v. it's benefits is warranted before any suggestion for it's use are given. (Or at least post the possibility of a difference of opinion on it's safety and efficacy). Sorry to ramble this way. You might see the arguement I'm about to make daily and have info that I don't . If that's so please share it with me and I'll be delighted. If you've heard this line of
reasoning a million times and you've already addressed it, I apologize.
Sea Salt , even unrefined Sea Salt, share the same origin and chemistry with table salt . Rock salt(otherwise known as table salt )
, as I'm sure you know, is just evaporated sea salt left over from ancient oceans. Sea Salt and rock salt are inorganic. Inorganic minerals in "hard" water literally ossify us over time, from the inside out,causing hardening of the arteries and strokes.Salt has been proven to do the same. Yes, sodium is certainly key in many basic bodily processess.Its the form we ingest it in that seems to be telling. Did you know that the IBOMF - a vanguard of international doctors with enough courage and vision to practice bio oxidative therapies-no longer recommend using Saline solution in Hydrogen Peroxide infusions as it causes constriction of the arteries and stress on the veins? They now use D5W(dextrose solution). Plants are the only life forms that can take inorganic minerals and salt and turn them into the organic minerals and salts we so desperately need. There is debate on this subject. I have read that some scientitst believe that both inorganic and organic minerals are present in our blood . It seems they aren't quite sure how or if the inorganic minerals interact in our bodys' processes.
We acknowledge that we don't want inorganic metals in our bodies - (that the difference between inorganic iron and organic iron , is the difference between heavy metal toxemia and health). Common sense
suggests that until the debate is settled about organic and inorganic sodium it would be safer to get your salt and the attendant minerals from Kelp , dulse or other sea plants. Besides no one in our culture has a sodium deficiency. Quite the opposite, it is difficult to find prepared foods uncontaminated by salt in some way. It is used in ways we never even suspect, even in health food stores.(The only difference is that there, its "Sea Salt")
If you live in an area where the water is hard be careful when you bathe because you are absorbing salt used to treat the water through your skin.

Agnes, I'd welcome any additional info. Please, keep fighting the good fight. You guys give a priceless gift everyday. God Bless you.
Livvy -
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