The Myth of the “Salt Lick”
Is a low-salt diet a deficient diet? Don’t we need plenty of salt in our diets to keep us in top physical condition? This is a popular notion, but is it true? People will tell you that animals will travel for miles to visit so called “salt licks”. I investigated salt licks where wild forest animals congregate from miles around to lick the soil. Although all of these sites were known as “salt licks”, the one chemical property they all had in common was a complete absence of sodium chloride. There was absolutely no organic or inorganic sodium at the salt licks. But they all had an abundance of other organic minerals and nutrients which the animals craved.
Why Cows are Given Large Amounts of Salt
Death Valley Hike Proved Salt Dangerous
Most people have the preconceived idea that salt lost through perspiring must be immediately replaced. Many factories supply salt tablets to their workers. They mistakenly believe these are helpful! But are these salt tablets necessary? In my opinion: “NO!”
To prove definitely to myself that I did not need salt during extremely hot weather, I went to Death Valley, California, one of the hottest spots in the entire world during July and August. On my first test I hired 10 husky, strong young college athletes to make the hike in Death Valley from Furnace Creek Ranch to Stovepipe Wells, a distance of approximately 30 miles.
Historical Proof That Salt is Not Needed
Rommel’s German-Afrikan Corps swept across the gates of Egypt, fought and lost a hard battle at El Alamein.
Then they retreated over miles of blazing desert. Yet, when the war was over, the English found the captured troops in good physical condition, even though the German soldiers were not supplied with salt tablets. This story – just as my own Death Valley hike, which was also performed in the blazing desert sun – supports the findings of many experiments performed on humans with a non-salt diet under hot desert conditions. What happens, according to the scientific studies, is that: after the first few days of becoming acclimatized, the subjects stop losing salt through perspiration.
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How Much Salt Can the Body Tolerate Daily?
There’s been a great deal of research on salt tolerance. The American Heart Association recommends that healthy adults reduce their sodium intake to no more than 2400 milligrams per day. But the body’s actual physiological sodium requirement is less than 500 mg daily. Unfortunately, the average American salt addict actually consumes daily 2 to 5 times his sodium tolerance!
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Fasting De-Salts The Body Cells and Organs
I have had over 70 years experience with the science and use of rational fasting. And I have found that in 4 days of complete fasting we can de-salt the body. The urine will reveal the story of salt. Take a 4 day complete distilled water fast. Nothing must pass through your body for 4 days, except for distilled water and ACV drink.
Drink at least 8 to 10 glasses daily to flush the salt out. Each morning take a sample of the first urine your body passes. Put these urine bottles (labeled) on a shelf to settle for 3 weeks, then look at them in the sunlight.
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Humans Won’t Take Blame for Miseries
We live in a chaotic world. The demands for energy in these hectic times are enormous. We all have a standard of living to maintain and an image to create and live up to for our relatives and friends. We each have many responsibilities. Every waking hour requires great outputs of Vital Force to earn our daily living, to support our family, to drive a car in traffic, to be responsible for a job, to maintain a house, to rear our children, to perform social and civic duties. Plus there are thousands of other daily activities that call for your Vital Force to perform continually in operating your body. You need go-power and energy!
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The Miracles Are Within You
The human being craves sudden miracles. Not fully aware of the actual achievements of natural nutrition, exercise and fasting – which are in themselves miraculous – he searches in the realm of the unknown for manifestations that he cannot understand. Simply obeying Mother Nature’s great laws is too simple a procedure to follow! People full of miseries and premature ageing want a quick, easy way to find health and youthfulness.
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Fasting – the Key to Super Energy
Fasting is the key which unlocks Mother Nature’s storehouse of energy. It reaches every cell in the body, the inner organs and generates the Life Forces. No one can do it for you! It’s a personal duty that only you can perform. No one can eat for you. And I believe that 99% of all human suffering is caused by wrong and unnatural eating. The efficiency of any machine depends upon the quality and amount of fuel for generating power it is given. And that goes double for the human machine!
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Fasting – A Natural Instinct and Great Purifier
Sickness is Mother Nature’s way of showing you that you are filled with toxic wastes and internal poison. Dead people don’t have colds. It is only when you are alive and have Vital Force that you have physical problems.
By fasting, you are working with Mother Nature to help expel the wastes and poisons you have accumulated in your body. Every animal in the wilderness knows fasting, for it’s the only method animals use to help overcome any physical trouble that befalls them. This is pure animal instinct.
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The Enemy Within Our Bodies
Victor Hugo eloquently called the poison in our body “the serpent which is in man.” While this remark is poetic, it contains even more truth than poetry. I have come to regard autointoxication (self-poisoning) as the worst enemy in the fight for Agelessness and Longevity. It is mind-poisoning as well as body-poisoning because, even after the energy of the body is regained, one has a lingering sense of the futility of all endeavors. Some are inclined to say, “The best of life is behind me. What lies before is brief and burdensome. So many of my friends and relations have gone.” Others say, “My turn’s coming. I’ve got a date with the undertaker and it’s not so far off.” These depressing thoughts can generate sad moods and are detrimental to Agelessness and Longevity! Remember, you can make the second half of life the best.
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