Himalayan vs. Celtic Sea Salt: WHICH IS BETTER?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Today we're going to talk about Himalayan sea salt, Celtic, or you might pronounce it, Celtic sea salt and other types of sea salt.
0:07.6	Is there a big difference? Let's just jump right in.
0:10.1	When we get into the Himalayan sea salt, we're dealing with a salt that has been extracted from part of the planet where there is zero microplastics.
0:20.0	This salt was extracted very close to the Himalayan mountains, but not actually in the mountains.
0:26.0	There's other mines in Pakistan that provide this Himalayan sea salt, which is a very pure wonderful sea salt with a lot of trace minerals and a little more of certain
0:35.5	trace minerals that give it the pinkish color.
0:38.3	Now Celtic sea salt or Celtic sea salt is different.
0:42.3	It's mined from the ocean,
0:44.2	but in a very traditional way in a certain part of France.
0:48.0	They sundry it, and they keep this standard harvesting
0:51.0	of this salt, very, very traditional. And so Celtic salt is wonderful for
0:55.3	flavoring different foods and it too has a lot of different trace minerals as well
1:00.0	as sodium chloride. And there's virtually no microplastics in Celtic or Celtic salt either.
1:06.7	And then you have a Redmond, real sea salt. Another type of sea salt that's very pure
1:11.9	without the microplastics,
1:13.6	which they extract from Utah deep below a certain level of limestone
1:18.2	and this layer of diatomaceous earth,
1:20.6	so it's really protected from any type of pollution and so all these salts
1:25.2	really have come from ancient seas except for the Celtic or Celtic sea salt which
1:30.7	comes from an ocean but the way that they harvest the salt makes it extremely
1:35.4	free of pollution. Now, when you consume regular salt or especially sodium chloride, which is just two minerals, right?
1:45.1	Sea salt has like between 60 and 94 minerals. You're gonna get things that you
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