This is the Gatsy Health podcast with Janique and Tristan Rony.

Hey, you guys. Welcome back to the Gutsi Health podcast. This is Jeanique Rony. And I don't have my co-host with me, Gina Warfell. She's on vacation in Austin, Texas. And I'm so happy for her. But we have a really fantastic guest on today. Darryl Bouchard. He works with Redmond Real Salt. I'm going to let him introduce you, but today we're going to be unpacking salt and the

misconceptions around salt.

Daryl, wouldn't you say salt is one of the most misunderstood nutrients out there or substances

out there?

And it's been so demonized and that's really to our detriment.

You're absolutely right.

You know, if you look at any of the history books, all civilization started around access

to the salt deposits, religious books, historic books, and salt has always been essential

for life.

And yet in the last 30 or 40, 50 years, we've heard that salt this terrible thing. We have to avoid it.

But if we go to the hospital, the first thing they do is they give us an IV of, say,

leased solutions, which is solved. So there's obviously a disconnect.

Like such a big disconnect. Oh my gosh. I'm so glad you brought that up.

Daryl, tell us how you got into the salt world.

Tell us about you and your life before we like start jumping into the, the juiciness of how

salt is actually really great for us. Well, I'm one of those crazy people that just think salt is a

fascinating topic. There's a, there's a small few of us. There's a couple of great writers to have

written on salt. And I just love the topic. So I grew up in central Utah, and it just so happens that under my grandfather's farm, there was an ancient seabed. And so in the 1950s, my grandfather and his brother, the farm was kind of struggling, and they knew there was salt under their

farm because it had been harvested by the Native Americans in this particular central Utah Valley

before the pioneers and settlers had come through the west. And so they knew there was salt under

their farm, and so they got a bulldozer and plowed the alfalfa out of the

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