Salt is Salt Right? WRONG!

At Rough-Fit, we're big proponents of Celtic Sea Salt. When you work out, you lose minerals in your sweat, and you need to replace those. While water is necessary, it means nothing if it can't be absorbed into the body.

Getting your minerals are important, but you can't get that from table salt, or even a lot of sea salt out on the market.

You want to find salt that hasn't been processed, cleaned, heated, or handled with metal tools (this changes the ionic balance).

Celtic Sea Salt may not be the only high quality salt out there, but it is the one that we use and love. Here's how the different types of salts are handled.

Note: please post any questions in the comments section of the blog and we will do our best to answer them.

Celtic Sea Salt: Harvested from clay-lined salt beds. Sun and wind dry the salt, wooden utensils are used to gather the salt.

Taken out: Nothing. Only carefully sifted to remove natural debris such small stones or sand. More than 80 vital mineral are left intact!

Added: Nothing is added.

“Natural Sea Salt: Methods of producing natural sea salt vary widely. Most are machine-harvested, washed, boiled and skimmed, then oven-dried. If the salt is crystallized but white, it has been dried in concrete-linked beds. These salts are handled by metal utensils. Some sea salts come from the same refineries as iodized, commercial salt.

Taken out: Mineral are removed in the process of heat (used to quickly dry salt) and washing (helps to make the salt “white”).

Added: If the salt flows freely, anti-caking agents have been added. These agents prevent the salt absorbing water which negatively influences the human body’s ability to absorb the salt.

Iodized Table Salt: Is produced from vacuum evaporation of brine. Mineral are removed by using chemical such as sulfuric acid, chlorine and hydrochloric acid. The salt is then heated to high temperatures of 400 to dry it completely.

Removed: All minerals are removed, and the molecular structure of the salt is changed by the high temperatures.

Added: Anti-caking agents such as ferrocynide, yellow prussiate of soda, tri-calcium, phosphate

What a few experts have to say about Celtic Sea Salt.

...has a composition of minerals that naturally balanced for the human body. Many Chronic fatigue and adrenal-exhaustion patients benefits from including the Celtic Sea Salt (Dr. Shamim Daya (nutritional specialist in London England)

...has the ability to keep all body fluids, including the blood, in the balanced state obtaining homeostasis, the immune system will be strong, the metabolism will be healthy and the bodily organs will be able to easily function (Dr. Estevan Genoa, pediatrician in Miami, Fl)