Re: is salt really needed for halide elimination?

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People on the Gerson Therapy are drinking 13 organic vegetable juices a day, plus eating three organic meals daily, all rich in natural sodium as well as other minerals. When Dr. Gerson first started his therapy in the 1930's he was talking about restricting refined table salt as it is poison to our bodies. No one was using unrefined Celtic Salt in those times. Most of us are not eating the way of the Gerson Therapy with so many organic vegetable juices/meals daily that are rich in natural sodium and other minerals. This is where the unrefined Celtic Salt comes in, rich in natures minerals to help us eliminate the toxic halides in our environment. Kathleen

is salt really needed for halide elimination?

sodium is one of the main electrolytes that is already in excessive supply in diets which include processed foods. the gerson therapy helps correct this by a no salt diet whilst using iodine with great effect. it is supposedly the halide chloride which is needed to displace bromine, which can easily be obtained from eating and juicing lots of lettice, just as the gerson therapy does. chloride can also be obtained from olives. sodium is alreadt far too abundent and potassium short in the diets most people eat. i am not saying the occasional pinch would be harmfull to help detox if the diet is otherwise salt free but gerson shows it not to be needed.

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Thanks for this information, Kathleen. Also, back in the 1920's when Gerson developed his protocol, there were still many nutrients in food. Now, just because something is labeled organic at the grocery store, doesn't mean it includes all the nutrients we need. The fact is that our food supply really doesn't have anywhere near the nutrients we need - as evidenced by the huge numbers of people that are sick due to not enough nutrients in our bodies, such as iodine, magnesium, etc. You would have to grow your own food, using manure that you know where it came from and what the animal ate, and also compost which you know its origin as well, in order to determine if it has any nutrients or not. I grow my own food this way, but I still take nutrients because I'm coming up short in almost every nutrient there is, (i.e. magnesium, selenium, iodine, iron) I have now discovered.

ArielOn Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Kathleen Blake <kathleenblake@...> wrote:

 

People on the Gerson Therapy are drinking 13 organic vegetable juices a day, plus eating three organic meals daily, all rich in natural sodium as well as other minerals.  When Dr. Gerson first started his therapy in the 1930's he was talking about restricting  refined table salt as  it is poison to our bodies. No one was using unrefined Celtic Salt in those times. Most of us are not eating the way of the Gerson  Therapy with so many organic vegetable juices/meals  daily that are rich in  natural sodium and other minerals.  This is where the unrefined Celtic Salt comes in, rich in natures minerals  to help us eliminate the toxic halides in our environment. Kathleen

is salt really needed for halide elimination?

 

sodium is one of the main electrolytes that is already in excessive supply in diets which include processed foods. the gerson therapy helps correct this by a no salt diet whilst using iodine with great effect. it is supposedly the halide chloride which is needed to displace bromine, which can easily be obtained from eating and juicing lots of lettice, just as the gerson therapy does. chloride can also be obtained from olives. sodium is alreadt far too abundent and potassium short in the diets most people eat. i am not saying the occasional pinch would be harmfull to help detox if the diet is otherwise salt free but gerson shows it not to be needed.

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[Guest guest]

Hi,

My question sort of relate to a salt issue is well. I'm using Himalayan salt for my cooking no other salt.

I just found out that I'm deficient in Potassium, Calcium and Magnesium. I was recommended a compound

preparation that contains the following: Ion Sodium, Ion Potassium, Ion Calcium and Ion Magnesium.

Do I need the Ion Sodium when I'm already taking Himalayan salt?

Is Ion Sodium equal to my Himalayan salt in this case?

Thank you for the input

Graciela

From: health_info_at <health_info_at@...>iodine Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 1:04:48 PMSubject: is salt really needed for halide elimination?

sodium is one of the main electrolytes that is already in excessive supply in diets which include processed foods. the gerson therapy helps correct this by a no salt diet whilst using iodine with great effect. it is supposedly the halide chloride which is needed to displace bromine, which can easily be obtained from eating and juicing lots of lettice, just as the gerson therapy does. chloride can also be obtained from olives. sodium is alreadt far too abundent and potassium short in the diets most people eat. i am not saying the occasional pinch would be harmfull to help detox if the diet is otherwise salt free but gerson shows it not to be needed.

[Guest guest]

We need chlorine to produce hydrochloric acid for digestion. We also need

chlorine in our immune system since our white blood cells release hypochlorite

to kill pathogens. Excluding salt, particularly unrefined salt, from our diets

I think is a mistake. If deficient in potassium, magnesium, or anything else,

my own reaction would be to take more of these, and not to reduce or eliminate

sodium which is itself needed to maintain the proper fluid balance in cells.

It makes sense to me to eliminate the halides, fluorine and bromine, from our

diets both of which have no known value to us, and compete with iodine and

chlorine. It does not make sense to eliminate chlorine or sodium, both of which

are required for our survival.

My experience with RealSalt is that it really does eliminate some of the

symptoms that result from taking high levels of iodine. I don't know exactly

how it works but I think it has to do with physically blocking reabsorption of

bromine from our urine.

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> sodium is one of the main electrolytes that is already in excessive supply in

diets which include processed foods. the gerson therapy helps correct this by a

no salt diet whilst using iodine with great effect.

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> it is supposedly the halide chloride which is needed to displace bromine,

which can easily be obtained from eating and juicing lots of lettice, just as

the gerson therapy does. chloride can also be obtained from olives.

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> sodium is alreadt far too abundent and potassium short in the diets most

people eat.

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> i am not saying the occasional pinch would be harmfull to help detox if the

diet is otherwise salt free but gerson shows it not to be needed.

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