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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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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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