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John Harper
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Just like too many people out there today.
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Alm
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The problem is that travelers rarely keep a normal diet, unlike people living in their homes.
When you become really dehydrated, you are losing salt with sweat and need to replenish it fast. Mineral water will have little value when you are not
dehydrated, obviously.
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bajabound888
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A little bit of Celtic or Hymalayan salt before you drink water will ensure you are hydrated....
https://youtu.be/Dm6fmiG4SAc
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Alm
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Yep. This is called restoring electrolyte balance. She is right about sea water in this video too, can be added in small amounts to RO water if this
is all you have.
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SFandH
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Does diet coke, my main water source, fit into a naturopathic lifestyle? Should I add Himalayan sea salt to the coke?
BTW, how do you get sea salt from the Himalayas?
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willardguy
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I've been known to add a splash of diet coke to my cuba libres
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Salty Scheisse
Wikipedia:
Himalayan salt is rock salt or halite from the Punjab region of Pakistan. Numerous health claims have been made concerning himalayan salt, but there
is no scientific evidence that it has better effects or healthier than common table salt and the claims are considered pseudoscience.
Although its salt is sometimes marketed as "Jurassic Sea Salt", this salt deposit comes from a seabed of the Permian and Cretaceous eras 100 to 200
million years ago. This sea became landlocked and evaporated, leaving a dense salt deposit, colored by a common pink microorganism that had lived in
it. Over the next few hundred million years, that deposit was at the border of a continental plate, and was pushed up into a mountain range in
Pakistan.
The concentration of salt near Khewra, Punjab, is said to have been discovered around 326 BC when the troops led by Alexander the Great stopped to
rest there and noticed their horses licking the salty rocks. Salt was probably mined there from that time, but the first records of mining are from
the Janjua people in the 1200s.
Himalayan salt is mostly mined at the Khewra Salt Mine in Khewra, Jhelum District, Punjab, which is situated in the foothills of the Salt Range hill
system in the Punjab province of the Pakistan Indo-Gangetic Plain.
Himalayan salt is chemically similar to table salt plus mineral impurities including chromium, iron, zinc, lead, and copper. Some salts mined in the
Himalayas are not suitable for use as food or industrial use without purification due to these impurities.
Some salt crystals from this region have an off-white to transparent color, while impurities in some veins of salt give it a pink, reddish, or
beet-red color.
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SFandH
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Well, that explains it. Powerful geologic forces and 200 million years. It's gotta be good. I'm not going to waste it by adding to diet coke. Maybe
I'll switch to that water stuff.
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https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/different-types-of-salt...
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Quote: Originally posted by MrBillM  | Wikipedia:
Himalayan salt is rock salt or halite from the Punjab region of Pakistan. Numerous health claims have been made concerning himalayan salt, but there
is no scientific evidence that it has better effects or healthier than common table salt and the claims are considered pseudoscience.
Although its salt is sometimes marketed as "Jurassic Sea Salt", this salt deposit comes from a seabed of the Permian and Cretaceous eras 100 to 200
million years ago. This sea became landlocked and evaporated, leaving a dense salt deposit, colored by a common pink microorganism that had lived in
it. Over the next few hundred million years, that deposit was at the border of a continental plate, and was pushed up into a mountain range in
Pakistan.
The concentration of salt near Khewra, Punjab, is said to have been discovered around 326 BC when the troops led by Alexander the Great stopped to
rest there and noticed their horses licking the salty rocks. Salt was probably mined there from that time, but the first records of mining are from
the Janjua people in the 1200s.
Himalayan salt is mostly mined at the Khewra Salt Mine in Khewra, Jhelum District, Punjab, which is situated in the foothills of the Salt Range hill
system in the Punjab province of the Pakistan Indo-Gangetic Plain.
Himalayan salt is chemically similar to table salt plus mineral impurities including chromium, iron, zinc, lead, and copper. Some salts mined in the
Himalayas are not suitable for use as food or industrial use without purification due to these impurities.
Some salt crystals from this region have an off-white to transparent color, while impurities in some veins of salt give it a pink, reddish, or
beet-red color. |
Speaking of Which,.... Alexander the Great’s horse Bucephalus is supposedly buried somewhere around Jhelum.
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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There is no need to go overboard with naturopathy. Salt additives become important when you lose a lot of salt and need to replenish it quickly,
before more damage is done to your organs. Ex., after physical activity when you lose more than 3% of body weight in sweat. When driving a car in
Baja, even in summer heat without A/C, this is less likely to happen.
Try listening to your body. When you are moderately dehydrated, mineral water or diet coke is better than pure water, but if you are going to be home
soon, there is no disaster if you only have RO water with you.
Edit-PS: on the 2nd thought - forget the diet coke. You might need one for energy boost when dehydration is caused by physical activity (among other
things), but caffeine impedes the hydration.
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