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The Dr. Gundry Podcast

DON'T Buy Salt Until You Watch This! - Dr. G's Quick Health Tip | EP 296.B

The Dr. Gundry Podcast

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Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Talk Radio

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Learn why all salts are NOT built the same and which ones you need to avoid! SALT, we all use it. But have you noticed there are TONS of new salts on the market from pink salt to Himalayan salt? While these are great to use in the kitchen once in a while, I say this should NOT replace your usual salt. In fact, these trendy new salts do not contain the health benefits that you need to live your longest, healthiest life. So in this episode, I share what these trendy salts lack that you need in your diet. Plus I reveal the only salt you should be using regularly and what benefits you can reap from it.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast, where Dr Stephen Gundry shares his groundbreaking research

0:05.8

from over 25 years of treating patients with diet and lifestyle changes alone.

0:11.0

Dr. Gundry and other wellness experts offer inspiring stories, the latest scientific

0:16.1

advancements, and practical tips to empower you to take control of your health and live a long

0:21.5

happy life.

0:23.0

All those trendy gourmet salts like Himalayan salt, pink salt, are great to use occasionally

0:31.0

for fun in the kitchen. But these sea salts and other pink salts

0:37.7

don't have the health benefits that folks give them credit for.

0:43.0

Believe it or not, all salt,

0:46.0

even salt from underground was eventually from the sea.

0:51.0

That's where salt came from. So even though it might be a deep

0:57.6

mountain deposit like assault from Utah or from the Himalayans that has all these interesting compounds.

1:08.3

The problem is sea salt lacks an essential ingredient called iodine.

1:15.6

Iodine is really important.

1:17.8

Back in the early 1900s,

1:21.2

there was such an iodine deficiency, particularly in the Midwest, that by estimates,

1:29.0

10 million people died of goiter and hypothyroidism.

1:35.8

And because of this, the federal government

1:38.7

along with 20 other governments in the world

1:41.9

mandated iodine be placed in salt.

1:47.0

Why in salt?

1:48.0

Because in general people use salt and it was an easy way to make up for the fact that people's

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