How are salt cravings related to your thyroid?
If you feel tired all the time, then your body may be craving minerals which is the raw material it needs to produce and use energy.
If you are like most people, you may be under the false assumption that salt is bad for you…
I couldn’t believe that I was wrong about salt being bad for you… but there’s a caveat…
There’s a difference between real salt and fake salt…
Real salt is salt with minerals which the body uses as electrolytes to hydrate and produce energy…
Think of it this way… Imagine a double AA battery. Its job is to store energy. How do you use the energy stored in the battery? You need a conductive mineral like a copper wire to use the energy…
If you are mineral deficient, you will feel your energy levels drop… it’s not that your energy levels drop per se, but rather you lose the ability to use the energy your body produces…
Similarly, the cells of your body are indeed battery cells that store energy. How do you use the energy inside them? You need conductive minerals and the way to get those minerals is through mineralized salt.
Most table salt has been stripped of minerals and marketed as iodized salt… this was around the time that they were saying that low thyroid was due to an iodine deficiency… anyone who’s ever experienced thyroid fatigue, poor sleep, gaining weight, hair loss, and the laundry list of things that comes with low thyroid function knows that just taking iodine doesn’t help much…
Iodized salt doesn’t have minerals and it’s the most widely used type of salt. What makes it more confusing is that when you do find mineralized salt, you will usually see a disclaimer that says that the “salt doesn’t contain iodide, a necessary nutrient”…
When you start to look into this you will begin to find that this all started as a way to introduce iodized salt into the market. It is not a natural form of salt. They removed the most important part of salt, minerals, and replaced it with iodide making people believe that it was a necessary trade-off…
People are finally starting to figure out that they can’t trust food labels and going back to traditional nourishing foods like mineralized sea salt over iodized table salt…
There’s a lot more going on, but salt cravings is your body pointing you in the right direction… it’s like your body’s check engine light saying, “hey, I need minerals!”…
Minerals allow your body to be conductive… it allows your body to take the energy it produces and use it… if you have low energy, you will find that adding minerals to your diet will give you a boost of energy…
You can get minerals from Celtic Sea Salt or Redmond Real Salt, which is sold at most grocery stores… but we’ve found that the best source of minerals is from large pink Himalayan salt crystals (not found at grocery stores)…
These large crystals are clean and contain all 82+ minerals that your body needs to produce energy…
Pink Himalayan salt sold at grocery stores is ground coarse or fine which means there’s either stone or metal debris from the grinders, not to mention that the source is not always a clean source…
As you start to dig into the quality of salts available you will start to become aware of how bad our food supply is and how that relates to low thyroid function and Hashimoto’s…
One of the main mineral deficiencies that could be making you crave salt is magnesium…
The best source of magnesium is ionic magnesium from the great Salt Lake in Utah…
How to ease salt cravings and get more energy…
One thing to understand about minerals is their form which ranges from stone to ionic… or in other words, minerals can be non digestible or digestible…
Think of it like trying to eat a rock… that’s not very digestible… ionic magnesium is the most digestible form…
How do you know if the minerals you are taking are digestible?
They must be able to dissolve in water…
That’s why salts dissolved in water are the best way to get minerals into your body…
This is why mineralized water is one of the most effective ways to get more energy…
We started a hydration challenge to get people to experience getting more energy and here’s some of the results people shared with us…
How salt cravings make you feel tired and gain weight
If you are following along, craving salt is a sign of dehydration…
Dehydration affects your ability to digest food…
If you are dehydrated and eat food, what happens is that the food you eat ends up sitting in your gut until it starts to ferment or rot… this will give you gas, make you bloated or constipated…
Your body is then not able to get nutrients from the food you eat so your energy levels begin to drop… as you become more and more mineral deficient, your hair begins to thin and fall off…
This begins to create an environment in your gut for bad bacteria and wild yeast like candida to grow… bad bacteria is considered bad because they release toxins… those toxins are what begin to attack your brain and thyroid… it’s why people start to experience brain fog…
The body protects itself from toxins by storing them in its fat cells… as you being to accumulate more toxins, your fat cells begin to expand and it becomes harder and harder to lose weight…
I personally gained almost 40 lbs in a month…
It didn’t matter if I ate salads, drank weight loss shakes, if I ate a little… I seemed to gain weight no matter what…
Once I understood that I was gaining weight because of the toxins produced in my gut I found a path to get my energy back and lose weight…
I simply focused on cleaning up my gut and improving my gut health…
Creating an environment to grow healthy probiotics in your gut is the most effective way to get more energy and lose weight…
Clean mineralized water makes much more sense when you think about how you use water to clean just about everything in your household…
You use water to do dishes, laundry, shower, brush your teeth, wash your car…
Water is also what you use to clean your gut…
This is why hydration is so important… it will help you digest food to get more energy and keep bad bacteria out so that you don’t produce toxins and stay lean & toned…
Watch Christina’s success story about how hydration helped her get more energy and lose weight…
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