Salt Your Way To Health Paperback – 1 Jan. 2006

A very informative and easy book to read. Brownstein explains the differences between natural salt and table salt, detailing the ingredients in each and going through what each does to the human body. He also sites references that include a number of extensive tests (which apparently doctors don't seem to read) to prove that it is not just his own findings which support a diet with good salt in it. The amajority of chapters deal with various illnesses and how salt affects them (including low-salt diets) causing symptoms such as fatigue, providing numerous case studies to illustrate his point that good salt is vital for the proper functioning of the body and without it we are actually becoming sick.Cholesterol, salt, iodine - all of these are actually natural to our bodies and yet medicine would have us believe that nature doesn't know what its doing, but man does. Are we actually getting healthier as a result?

Really useful information.I feel informed and enlightened about the proper way using salt to maximise health!

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Very pleased with the service and delighted with the book .And it arrived on time.Thank you.

The author of this book explains how the 'salt is bad for you and must be severely minimised or else cause high blood pressure etc. etc.' myths came into being. I was shocked at how shonky the science that supposedly proved salt was so bad, really was (and is).To be clear, salt is very bad for you, if you're talking about table salt.However, unrefined salt is an entirely different substance and is essential to good health, in the appropriate amount (and also makes your food taste MUCH better as we are designed to want a bit of salt in our food!) This book also explains how very low salt diets cause their own problems and how eating table salt uses up valuable mineral stores in the body, making table salt an antinutrient.The author explains how he has improved the health of many patients with high blood pressure as well as many other ailments, with unrefined salt and all the micro-minerals it contains (along with a comprehensive and individualised nutritional medicine program).Unrefined salt is not a miracle cure, just another part of giving your body all the tools it needs to heal itself as much as possible. We need those 80 trace elements in unrefined salt! They do all sorts of important tasks in the body.This book is very short and simple to read, although it is somewhat annoyingly repetitive. For those that can't afford the book, a summary of its main points is simple;Drink two litres of water every day and add 0.5 to 1 teaspoon of unrefined salt to your diet (or your water) each day. That's it!Incidentally, many products labeled 'sea salt' are just plain old table salt. Unrefined salt is NEVER white. It is often off-white or light brown, grey or pink and is slightly moist. It should also contain 80 trace minerals. (Look for Celtic sea salt, or similar.)Don't believe the salt scaremongers! Read this book!Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.

This is a book everyone including medics should read. It clearly explains the difference between everyday refined salt and unrefined.The difference in terms of mineral content alone is an eye opener.The back sleeve says: 'Salt is a vitally important dietary nutrient. This book will show you the remarkable healing ability of unrefined salt.Includes actual case studies.'Put nutrient rich (not refined which is nutrient deplete) unrefined celtic sea salt on your next shopping list and spread the word.

This is a quite short book and a book full of annoying repetitions but still worth reading. Is Dr. Brownstein right, are those who tell us about the dangers of salt right? Is unrefined salt much better than sea salt? Difficult to know because everybody tries to advocate their ideas as well as they can! Still, Dr. Brownstein talks greatly from the experience he had in his surgery, and that is maybe more valuable than those who did research using hundreds of thousands of people, more often than not unreliable research! At least this doctor seems to care about his patients and did all he could to help them.I do have a few questions though, therefore the 3 stars! From other books I have read the relation between cholesterol and heart disease hasn't been proved yet and lowering cholesterol is not always a good thing, take the elderly for example, who already lose cholesterol in the brain due to the age so if they don't get enough they have a lot more change to get dementia. It is also a given fact that the women who live the longest are often the ones with the highest cholesterol. There also seems to be a link between low cholesterol and risk of cancer, for example. On page 67 there is a sentence I don't understand and which seems rather dangerous to me: "... by limiting their sodium intake to 3-7g (approximately 1.5-7 teaspoons) of salt per day". 7 teaspoons of salt a day is an awful lot of salt, I would say...... I think that one teaspoon is about 2.5g so 7 teaspoons would be 17.5g, maybe a dangerous amount? And 7g can't be 7 teaspoons. Dr. Brownstein should have had a proofreader! On page 77 I found this discrepancy: "The only salt Jerry received was the refined salt in food". Then his mother goes on to say that she never salted Jerry's food because she thought that is was healthier to go without it. Maybe Jerry was eating a lot of processed food? But that was probably not the case as his mother seemed to be quite careful with what he ate..... Also to say that high blood pressure is associated with cardiovascular problems doesn't seem to be accurate. A lot of people who have heart attacks, for example, don't seem to suffer at all from high blood pressure. But then... how high is high blood pressure exactly? Over the years the limits have been set lower and lower, maybe in order to sell more blood pressure medication?Bromine seems to be quite a toxic substance, the fact that it is added quite often to our food and medication worried me! I have had a lot of cherry angiomas from quite an early age and from what I have heard they can be cause of bromine intoxication. The chapter on bromine and bromide is quite interesting as are the recipes for a salt bath, a spray for a runny nose, for insomnia, etc.As far as the repetitions go who knows... maybe authors write a script which is then developed into a book and if the information is not enough to fill a certain amount of pages the editor then repeats things over and over again, I don't know! Many books are now written in this way.... they are more like articles which become books in order to sell, even if the information is not nearly enough to fill one!I would say.... read and research. So far I have read other books that advocate the use of salt, as I have read several books that advocate the use of fat, the importance of sunshine and much more! Even if you can't know for sure who tells the truth you have to try to make up your mind and maybe the answer is to do everything in moderation!