What Your Body Can And Can't Absorb

I used this Himalayan salt for some time… and even mentioned it in one of my newsletter issues. However, during all of this, one of my long time biochemistry health sources, a source I truly respected, pointed out something very simple and profound:

The human body is not designed to and can not
absorb minerals that are not plant based.

More specifically, minerals from "rocks" can not be used by the body. In this form, they are irritating and toxic to the body.

The truth is that the body can only use sodium that has been chelated (attached) to a protein molecule. These minerals are referred to as organic. And guess where you can find chelated sodium in huge quantities? In plants.

Here's how plants create sodium in a form our bodies can use. Through photosynthesis, plants bind inorganic minerals to a protein molecule. This process transforms the inorganic minerals into a form that we can use. In effect, turning rocks into food.

Here's some evidence to demonstrate that non organic, rock based sodium chloride is not meant for the human body yet organic sodium is.

One element of the Gerson (cancer) Therapy is moving the potassium/sodium balance back to normal. Part of this process involves increasing the amount of potassium that is ingested while completely eliminating all sources of INORGANIC sodium.

What has been found is that when patients do this, the body begins to unload large amounts of sodium. This is interesting when you consider that during this process, the patient has taken in no inorganic sodium.

So if the patient has not been ingesting any inorganic sodium (the rock based, sodium chloride, "table salt" variety) yet their body is dumping huge amounts of sodium, where is all this sodium coming from? Simple; it has been stored in the body and is now being removed.

If this is indeed true, just think of all the sodium chloride that must be stored in your body. Three other studies showed the following:

• When sodium chloride was ingested, the body quickly removed it. Yet when organic sodium was ingested, the body retained it.
  
  
• Sodium chloride tends to cause the body to lose calcium. Yet organic sodium caused a decrease in calcium loss.
  
  
• When sodium chloride was given to people who were prone to hypertension (high blood pressure), their blood pressure rose. However, when organic sodium was given to these same people, their blood pressure moved towards normal.

So this brings us back to the following problem. We know that the body needs sodium. In fact, sodium is one of the foundational elements of the body. But if we can't use any rock based sources of sodium, where do we get it? We get it from plants. What kinds of plants? Here's a list.

• Celery
• Artichokes
• Beets
• Carrots
• Broccoli
• Cabbage
• Spinach
• Avocados
• Papaya
• Plantain (starchy bananas)
• Casaba Melons

On the next page is a story about just how much your body can crave organic sodium and other electrolytes.

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