I came across this yesterday, and thought it would be useful for anyone using the salt-loading/ salt-water for detox protocol.
https://themeadow.com/pages/minerals-in-himalayan-pink-salt-spectral-analysis
It came as a surprise that there is so little fluoride in it, considering this - http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/salt-may-be-health-scam.html
Fluoride is a naturally occuring mineral, as well as a manufactured by-product of industry. In its naturally occuring tiny amounts, it isn't harmful to us. In the huge amounts that they put in tap water and toothpaste, it very certainly IS damaging.
I don't know where Natural Health News got their figures from, but they are wildly different from these that I've linked to here. If you notice, this damnation of pink salt appears to have been published on a Celtic Sea-salt site. Who's to say which bias, if there is any bias, is the least accurate?
I've noticed that some people are concerned about the chloride content of salts - it's worth noting that chlorIDE and chlorINE are different beasts. ChlorIDE is naturally occuring and vital for all animal life. ChlorINE is the damaging man-made chemical that is put in swimming pools and water supplies as a disinfectant. ChlorIDE is highly useful in helping detox bromine/ bromide when starting iodosupplementation, hence the salt-loading protocol. Yes, chloride competes with other halides (bromide, iodide, fluoride, etc) for receptor space, but that's why you don't take the salt water until at least 40-60 minutes AFTER taking iodine.
I also saw a thread recently that expressed worry over using bottled mineral water for diluting iodine, because they thought mineral water contains chlorINE. It doesn't. It contains chlorIDE.
In essence, the following are the constituents of Himalayan Pink salt.
Figures are in grams per kilo (g/kg,), which is the same as milligrams per gram (mg/g), and micrograms per milligram (mcg/mg). I've put them in order of quantity, and alphabetically where possible. I have calculated (roughly) how much a teaspoon, 1/2 tsp, 1/4 tsp, and 1/8th tsp contains of the predominant minerals/ elements, and those amounts appear underneath the following elements/ minerals list.
Chloride (Cl) .............590.93
Sodium (Na)...............382.61
Sulfur (S).......................12.40
Calcium (Ca)...................4.05
Potassium (K)..................3.50
Oxygen (O).......................1.20
Lithium (Li).....................0.40
Hydrogen (H)..................0.30
Magnesium (Mg)..............0.16
Strontium (Sr).................0.014
Iodine (I)........................<0.10
Fluoride (F)....................<0.10
Silicon (Si).,....................<0.10
Phosphorus (P)...............<0.10
Iron (Fe)................... 38.90 ppm (38.9 parts per million is equivalent to 38.9mcg per gram)
Dysprosium (Dy)........<4.00 ppm
Europium (Eu)...........<3.00 ppm
Rhenium (Re).............<2.50 ppm
Zinc (Zn).....................<2.38 ppm
BROMINE (Br)..............2.10 ppm
Iridium (Ir).................<2.00 ppm (2 parts per million is equivalent to 2mcg per gram)
Barium (Ba).............. ....1.96 ppm
Tantalum (Ta)...............1.10 ppm
Gold (Au)....................<1.00 ppm (1 part per million is equivalent to 1mcg per gram)
Francium (Fr).............<1.00 ppm
Aluminium (Al).............0.661 ppm
Cobalt (Co)....................0.600 ppm
Copper (Cu)...................0.560 ppm
Platinum (Pr).................0.470 ppm
Manganese (Ma)............0.270 ppm
Nickel (Ni)......................0.130 ppm
Lead (Pb)........................0.100 ppm
Bismuth (Bi).................<0.100 ppm
Thalium (Ta)..................0.060 ppm
Vanadium (V)................0.060 ppm
Chromium (Cr)..............0.050 ppm
Selenium (Se)................0.050 ppm
Rubidium (Rb)..............0.040 ppm
Silver (Ag)......................0.031 ppm
Mercury (Hg)..............<0.030 ppm
Nitrogen (N)..................0.024 ppm
(Apologies for the less-than crisp attempt at tabulating the columns - my iPad doesn't appear to have a tab key, and refuses to line up correctly in the font on this board. I'm not yet very good at using the formatting tools here, but I've done my best!)
Less than 0.01 ppm - Antimony (Sb), Arsenic (As), Beryllium (Be), Cadmium (Cd), Molybdenum (Mo), Tin (Sn).
Less than 0.001 ppm -
Actinium (Ac)
Astatine (At)
Boron (B)
Carbon (C)
Cerium (Ce)
Cesium (Cs)
Erbium (Er)
Gadolinium (Gd)
Gallium (Ga)
Germanium (Ge)
Hafnium (Hf)
Holonium (Ho)
Indium (In)
Lanthanum (La)
Lutetium (Lu)
Neodymium (Nd)
Neptunium (Np)
Niobium (Nb)
Osmium (Os)
Palladium (Pd)
Plutonium (Pu)
Polonium (Po)
Praseodymium (Pr)
Protactinum (Pa)
Radium (Ra)
Rhodium (Rh)
Ruthenium (Ru)
Samarium (Sm)
Tellerium (Te)
Terbium (Tb)
Thulium (Tm)
Thorium (Th)
Titanium (Ti)
Uranium (U)
Wolfram (W)
Yterbium (Y)
Ytterbium (Yb)
Zirconium (Zr)
Total: 85 elements/ minerals.
Plus two Unstabke Artificial Isotopes, Promethium (Pm) and Technetium (Tc), no measurements given.
Teaspoon Measurements Of Himalayan Pink Salt In MGs:
Element......... 1 tsp .........1/2 tsp ........ 1/4 tsp .......1/8th tsp
Chloride ............. 3,273.75...... 1,636.88 ......... 818.44 ........ 409.22
Sodium................2,119.66 ........ 109.83 ........... 54.92 .......... 27.46
Sulfur.......................68.70 ...........34.35 .............17.18 ............8.59
Calcium .................. 22.44 ........... 11.22 .............5.61 .............2.81
Potassium ................19.39 ............ 9.70 ..............4.85 .......... 2.42
Oxygen.......................6.65 ..............3.33 ............ 1.66 ........... 0.83
Lithium .................... 2.22............... 1.11 ..............0.56........... 0.28
Hydrogen ................. 1.66 ............. 0.83 ............0.42 ........... 0.21
Magnesium...............0.89 ...............0.45 ............0.22.............0.11
Strontium .................0.08 ...............0.04 ...........0.02 ........... 0.01
(I don't understand what's going on with formatting this table, but before it gets posted, the headings for tsp amounts are lined up with the quantities, yet after posting, the headings have all bunched up together. Putting dotted lines in seems to be the only way I can find to get round it.)
So, in one teaspoon of Himalayan Pink salt, there are approx 3.27g Chloride, 2.120g Sodium, 68.7mg Sulfur, 22.44mg Calcium, 19.39mg Potassium, 6.65mg Oxygen, 2.22mg (222mcg) Lithium, 1.66mg (166mcg) Hydrogen, 890mcg Magnesium, and 80mcg Strontium.
Abraham and Brownstein gave one of their particpating patients 10g sodium chloride per day day for a week to help with her bromine detox, as cited in Iodine Study #11 on the Optimox site http://www.optimox.com/iodine-study-11
10g of Himalayan Pink salt is 2.8 teaspoons, although how you'd measure the point 8, I'm really not sure.
Different versions of the salt-loading protocol advise users to also take a further 1/2 tsp of unrefined salt on their food throughout the course of each day, in addition to the amount taken in water.
I hope this information is useful.
@Wayne @PatJ @newuser22 @jlynx @keenly @WoolPippi @Bansaw @arewenearlythereyet @Gondwanaland
@pamojja
https://themeadow.com/pages/minerals-in-himalayan-pink-salt-spectral-analysis
It came as a surprise that there is so little fluoride in it, considering this - http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/salt-may-be-health-scam.html
Fluoride is a naturally occuring mineral, as well as a manufactured by-product of industry. In its naturally occuring tiny amounts, it isn't harmful to us. In the huge amounts that they put in tap water and toothpaste, it very certainly IS damaging.
I don't know where Natural Health News got their figures from, but they are wildly different from these that I've linked to here. If you notice, this damnation of pink salt appears to have been published on a Celtic Sea-salt site. Who's to say which bias, if there is any bias, is the least accurate?
I've noticed that some people are concerned about the chloride content of salts - it's worth noting that chlorIDE and chlorINE are different beasts. ChlorIDE is naturally occuring and vital for all animal life. ChlorINE is the damaging man-made chemical that is put in swimming pools and water supplies as a disinfectant. ChlorIDE is highly useful in helping detox bromine/ bromide when starting iodosupplementation, hence the salt-loading protocol. Yes, chloride competes with other halides (bromide, iodide, fluoride, etc) for receptor space, but that's why you don't take the salt water until at least 40-60 minutes AFTER taking iodine.
I also saw a thread recently that expressed worry over using bottled mineral water for diluting iodine, because they thought mineral water contains chlorINE. It doesn't. It contains chlorIDE.
In essence, the following are the constituents of Himalayan Pink salt.
Figures are in grams per kilo (g/kg,), which is the same as milligrams per gram (mg/g), and micrograms per milligram (mcg/mg). I've put them in order of quantity, and alphabetically where possible. I have calculated (roughly) how much a teaspoon, 1/2 tsp, 1/4 tsp, and 1/8th tsp contains of the predominant minerals/ elements, and those amounts appear underneath the following elements/ minerals list.
Chloride (Cl) .............590.93
Sodium (Na)...............382.61
Sulfur (S).......................12.40
Calcium (Ca)...................4.05
Potassium (K)..................3.50
Oxygen (O).......................1.20
Lithium (Li).....................0.40
Hydrogen (H)..................0.30
Magnesium (Mg)..............0.16
Strontium (Sr).................0.014
Iodine (I)........................<0.10
Fluoride (F)....................<0.10
Silicon (Si).,....................<0.10
Phosphorus (P)...............<0.10
Iron (Fe)................... 38.90 ppm (38.9 parts per million is equivalent to 38.9mcg per gram)
Dysprosium (Dy)........<4.00 ppm
Europium (Eu)...........<3.00 ppm
Rhenium (Re).............<2.50 ppm
Zinc (Zn).....................<2.38 ppm
BROMINE (Br)..............2.10 ppm
Iridium (Ir).................<2.00 ppm (2 parts per million is equivalent to 2mcg per gram)
Barium (Ba).............. ....1.96 ppm
Tantalum (Ta)...............1.10 ppm
Gold (Au)....................<1.00 ppm (1 part per million is equivalent to 1mcg per gram)
Francium (Fr).............<1.00 ppm
Aluminium (Al).............0.661 ppm
Cobalt (Co)....................0.600 ppm
Copper (Cu)...................0.560 ppm
Platinum (Pr).................0.470 ppm
Manganese (Ma)............0.270 ppm
Nickel (Ni)......................0.130 ppm
Lead (Pb)........................0.100 ppm
Bismuth (Bi).................<0.100 ppm
Thalium (Ta)..................0.060 ppm
Vanadium (V)................0.060 ppm
Chromium (Cr)..............0.050 ppm
Selenium (Se)................0.050 ppm
Rubidium (Rb)..............0.040 ppm
Silver (Ag)......................0.031 ppm
Mercury (Hg)..............<0.030 ppm
Nitrogen (N)..................0.024 ppm
(Apologies for the less-than crisp attempt at tabulating the columns - my iPad doesn't appear to have a tab key, and refuses to line up correctly in the font on this board. I'm not yet very good at using the formatting tools here, but I've done my best!)
Less than 0.01 ppm - Antimony (Sb), Arsenic (As), Beryllium (Be), Cadmium (Cd), Molybdenum (Mo), Tin (Sn).
Less than 0.001 ppm -
Actinium (Ac)
Astatine (At)
Boron (B)
Carbon (C)
Cerium (Ce)
Cesium (Cs)
Erbium (Er)
Gadolinium (Gd)
Gallium (Ga)
Germanium (Ge)
Hafnium (Hf)
Holonium (Ho)
Indium (In)
Lanthanum (La)
Lutetium (Lu)
Neodymium (Nd)
Neptunium (Np)
Niobium (Nb)
Osmium (Os)
Palladium (Pd)
Plutonium (Pu)
Polonium (Po)
Praseodymium (Pr)
Protactinum (Pa)
Radium (Ra)
Rhodium (Rh)
Ruthenium (Ru)
Samarium (Sm)
Tellerium (Te)
Terbium (Tb)
Thulium (Tm)
Thorium (Th)
Titanium (Ti)
Uranium (U)
Wolfram (W)
Yterbium (Y)
Ytterbium (Yb)
Zirconium (Zr)
Total: 85 elements/ minerals.
Plus two Unstabke Artificial Isotopes, Promethium (Pm) and Technetium (Tc), no measurements given.
Teaspoon Measurements Of Himalayan Pink Salt In MGs:
Element......... 1 tsp .........1/2 tsp ........ 1/4 tsp .......1/8th tsp
Chloride ............. 3,273.75...... 1,636.88 ......... 818.44 ........ 409.22
Sodium................2,119.66 ........ 109.83 ........... 54.92 .......... 27.46
Sulfur.......................68.70 ...........34.35 .............17.18 ............8.59
Calcium .................. 22.44 ........... 11.22 .............5.61 .............2.81
Potassium ................19.39 ............ 9.70 ..............4.85 .......... 2.42
Oxygen.......................6.65 ..............3.33 ............ 1.66 ........... 0.83
Lithium .................... 2.22............... 1.11 ..............0.56........... 0.28
Hydrogen ................. 1.66 ............. 0.83 ............0.42 ........... 0.21
Magnesium...............0.89 ...............0.45 ............0.22.............0.11
Strontium .................0.08 ...............0.04 ...........0.02 ........... 0.01
(I don't understand what's going on with formatting this table, but before it gets posted, the headings for tsp amounts are lined up with the quantities, yet after posting, the headings have all bunched up together. Putting dotted lines in seems to be the only way I can find to get round it.)
So, in one teaspoon of Himalayan Pink salt, there are approx 3.27g Chloride, 2.120g Sodium, 68.7mg Sulfur, 22.44mg Calcium, 19.39mg Potassium, 6.65mg Oxygen, 2.22mg (222mcg) Lithium, 1.66mg (166mcg) Hydrogen, 890mcg Magnesium, and 80mcg Strontium.
Abraham and Brownstein gave one of their particpating patients 10g sodium chloride per day day for a week to help with her bromine detox, as cited in Iodine Study #11 on the Optimox site http://www.optimox.com/iodine-study-11
10g of Himalayan Pink salt is 2.8 teaspoons, although how you'd measure the point 8, I'm really not sure.
Different versions of the salt-loading protocol advise users to also take a further 1/2 tsp of unrefined salt on their food throughout the course of each day, in addition to the amount taken in water.
I hope this information is useful.
@Wayne @PatJ @newuser22 @jlynx @keenly @WoolPippi @Bansaw @arewenearlythereyet @Gondwanaland
@pamojja
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