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Earth Salts vs. Sea Salts - Which are Toxic? Which are Healthy?
Apr 8, 2025
Earth Salts vs. Sea Salts – Which are Toxic & Which are Healthy? 🌍🧂
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Not all salts are created equal! In this video, we compare earth salts like Redmond Real Salt and Himalayan salt to celtic sea salts and other sea salts and reveal which ones are truly healthy and which may contain toxic heavy metals. We also compare how the mineral composition between earth mined vs. sea mined salts and why this matters.
🔎 What You’ll Learn:
- Why Redmond & Himalayan salt are high in heavy metals and minerals that humans are already overloaded with 🚫
- How sea salt is lower in heavy metals and higher in the essential minerals we need - Unless it's celtic sea salt. ✅
- Why Ava Jane’s Hand-Harvested Sea Salt is the healthiest choice – with non-detectable heavy metals, no microplastics, and a perfect balance of minerals like magnesium, calcium, potassium, boron, lithium, and iodine 🌊💙
💡 If you want the cleanest, healthiest salt, you don’t want to miss this breakdown!
⏳ **Timestamps:**
0:00 – Intro: Are Some Salts Toxic?
1:15 – Earth Salts: Redmond & Himalayan (Heavy Metals & Toxicity)
3:30 – Sea Salt: A Cleaner Alternative?
5:10 – Why Ava Jane’s Sea Salt Is the Healthiest
7:45 – Essential Minerals We Need More Of
9:00 – Conclusion & Final Thoughts
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0:00
what's up ladies and gentlemen this is
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David Benjamin from Healthy Wild Free in
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today's video I'm going to be sharing
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with you the difference between land or
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earth mind salts and sea or ocean
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derived salts and the reason I created
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this video is because over the last few
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months I've been doing a lot of research
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on salt and their nutritional value but
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also the toxicity or heavy metal
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contamination in salts so these are two
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sides to the coin that both play a role
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in the value of the salt that we consume
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and if we fail to look at one or both of
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those equations we could be consuming
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the wrong salt and it could be damaging
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our health so without further ado let's
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break down some of the earth derived
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salts and kind of talk about these first
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and talk about uh the upsides and
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downsides of these and then we'll talk
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about sea salts and the upsides and
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downsides of that as well so with earth
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salts you have different brands the main
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brands of earth derived salt you see out
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there are real salt uh which is from
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Redmond the company Redmond which is a
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salt that is derived from a mine in Utah
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and then you have Himalayan salts which
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are derived from the Himalayan region uh
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in the world and these earth derived
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salts are basically salts that are just
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mined from the earth and the thing to
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keep in mind here is that from the
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research from the lab results you have
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for example that real salt that I just
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showed you has
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229 parts per million of lead it has 39
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parts per billion of arsenic and 7.3
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parts per billion of cadmium with
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Himalayan salt you have depending on the
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brand because there's so many Himalayan
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salt brands anywhere from 100 to 500 or
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550 parts per billion of lead which by
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the way these are really high levels of
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lead both in real salt and Himalayan
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salt you have 33 parts per billion of
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arsenic and 1.2 parts per billion of
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cadmium with Himalayan salt so these are
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your earth mine salts these are the
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salts that are mined from the earth that
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are typically used more so locally and
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have been used more locally in those
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regions so we're talking about sort of
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industrial uses for salt so using on the
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roads or in commercial applications
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things like this um typically earth mine
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salts have more practical applications
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within industrial use not necessarily
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human consumption or for dietary or
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culinary purposes now let's move over to
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the sea salt side of the equation you
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have sea salt and a very popular brand
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is Celtic sea salt now you may think
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Celtic sea salt is valuable and
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beneficial however I need to share
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something with you uh in my research and
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I took a first principles approach in my
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research and I started to look at it
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just from a different lens from a
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different perspective and I recognized
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that the earth mind salts are much
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higher in heavy metals than the sea
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salts that were tested and this is
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because well think about it let's take a
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first principles approach where is
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arsenic cadmium in lead mind you don't
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go to the ocean to get those you go to
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mines they're literally mined from the
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earth so the salts that are derived from
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the earth are paired with these heav he
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heavy metals and these heavy metals are
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toxic to our nervous system and are
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damaging to our health in many various
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ways which is why I said that earthine
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salts such as real salt by Redmond or
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any Himalayan salt or any other earthine
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salt is more problematic because it is a
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salt that is going to be more bound with
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heavy metals which are also mined from
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the earth so there's more of a pairing
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there now moving on to the brand Celtic
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salt you would think that some sea salts
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are better however Celtic salt uh and
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any Celtic salt not just this brand from
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Selena Natural but any other Celtic salt
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brand that uses the traditional Celtic
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process for salt is not going to be as
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healthy as well and the reason for that
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is because Celtic salt has believe it or
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not 662 parts per billion of lead in it
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this is extremely high it's the highest
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heavy metal in any salt tested and espe
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especially lead and this is
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12,520% higher than the recommended safe
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amount so that is a huge red flag and
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the reason for that is because Celtic
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salt even though it's mined from the sea
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what they do is they take it and they
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lay it out on these clay beds and guess
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what that clay happens to be highend you
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guessed it lead so this lead that they
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have traditionally used for many many
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years in uh in this uh I think it's off
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the coast of France and the traditional
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Celtic way of uh harvesting and drying
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salt this clay happens to be high in
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this lead so they take something that's
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pure from the sea and then they
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contaminate it because it's a natural
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process and then they sell it to you so
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Celtic salt is also worth avoiding
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unfortunately now let's break down an
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additional factor here that I haven't
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discussed yet you have the heavy metal
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contamination more so with the earth
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mine salts and less heavy metal
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contamination with the sea salts unless
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Celtic based salts are using their
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claybased methods which is introducing
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an earth element which has heavy metals
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in it so off the bat right off the jump
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we have earthbased salts or earth mine
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salts that have more heavy metals and
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sea salts that have less heavy metals so
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earth min salts are less healthy because
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they have more heavy metals and sea
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salts are healthier because they have
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less heavy metals now let's move on to
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the mineral part of the equation this is
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really interesting and I took a first
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principles approach here as well
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landbased salts are higher in iron and
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copper and guess what humans although we
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do need iron and copper iron and copper
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are minerals that we can have toxicity
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in in other words they are common forms
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of toxicity where if we have too much
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iron or too much copper it leads to
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toxicity and it leads to health
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challenges in our body now let's look at
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the sea salt side of the equation with
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sea salt we have magnesium
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potassium sodium even boron which helps
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magnesium absorption and vitamin D
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absorption and vitamin K2 absorption and
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lithium which is great for brain health
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these are all rich minerals that guess
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what we as humans tend to be deficient
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in meaning we need more of them coming
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from sea salts so we've looked at both
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sides of the equation here we've looked
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at the heavy metal portion of the
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equation with heavy metals earth salts
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are far less healthy than sea salts and
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then we've looked at the mineral form of
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the equation here and earth mine salts
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are higher in the metal excuse me higher
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not only in the metals but in the
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minerals that we tend to have too much
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of these minerals in and we have
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toxicity in them because we have too
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many and then the minerals composition
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of sea salts we have minerals within the
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sea salts that we are deficient in that
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we need more of so what's the answer to
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this equation which salt is healthier is
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it the earth salts or is it the sea
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salts well by far by a long shot sea
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salts are far healthier for you not only
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because of the lower heavy metal
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contamination but the higher level of
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minerals and the necessary minerals that
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you need as a human being to stay
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healthy to stay hydrated to support your
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nervous system your heart health and so
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much more we're talking magnesium
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potassium calcium boron and lithium once
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again so with that being said my
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favorite sea salt brand is a company
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called Ava James i'll put a link to this
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below uh with any sales or discounts
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that they have and the reason I love
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this brand is because from the lab tests
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there were zero traces of heavy metals
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that's right non detectable heavy metals
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we're talking no lead no arsenic no
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cadmium no mercury by the way none of
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these heavy levels none of these salts
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had uh levels of mercury thankfully but
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this had no mercury no lead no cadmium
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and no arsenic and it has no
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microplastics and it's harvested from a
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region I believe it's Cailluta it's off
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the uh coast of Mexico and it's a very
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low industrial region so there's very
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little pollution or industrial
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contamination and it's handh harvested
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and sundried so it's a very traditional
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practice and it retains its moisture a
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little bit so it retains even more
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minerals in doing that the more they
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drought the salt the more minerals loss
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that the salt occurs or has so I love
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this salt because it retains more
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minerals it has a little bit of moisture
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there's no heavy metals and there's no
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microplastics so it's the quite
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literally the healthiest salt I could
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find from all of the lab tests and all
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the research that I've done so check out
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Eva Jane salt i'll link it up right
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below this video it's my favorite sea
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salt it tastes delicious it adds a ton
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of flavor to dishes I cook every single
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day i use it on salt beef fish and so
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much more you're going to love it and
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you can just add it to your water and
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add it to uh any other culinary you need
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as well so check that out below and if
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