Mineral Rich Salt

Mineral Rich Salt - 4 oz jar
 
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Our Mineral Rich Salt is a blend of mineral rich herbs, spices, and sea salt. It can be added to any savory dish to increase trace minerals that are missing from our soils and deficient in modern foods. This formula contains a combination of nutritive and carminative herbs to provide an abundance of minerals and trace elements, as well as increase nutrient absorption and assimilation. It adds a lot of flavor to cooked grains, veggies, soups, and poultry. It makes a delicious spice rub. Add a pinch with every meal.
 
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SUGGESTED USE
Sprinkle on food right before eating
Add to soups, sautees,  and savory recipes as it is cooking
Use it as a rub for meats
Mix with olive oil and vinegar to make salad dressing
Coat veggies with Mineral Rich Salt and olive oil before oven roasting
 
 
INGREDIENTS
Sage leaf (Salvia officinalis)
Rosemary leaf (Rosemarinus officinalis)
Thyme leaf (Thymus vulgaris)
Nettles leaf (Urtica dioica)
Kelp powder (Laminaria sp.)
Basil leaf (Ocimum basilicum)
Milk Thistle seed (Silybum marianum)
Monarda (Monarda fistulosa)
Dill seed (Anethum graveolens)
Celery seed (Apium graveolens)
Juniper berries (Juniperus communis)
Sea salt
 
DOSAGE
Sprinkle to taste. You can add 1/2 teaspoon at a time to taste for soups or sautees. 
 
CAUTIONS
None
 
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Why do we need extra minerals?
The modern food supply is gravely devoid of nutrients due to soil depletion. One would need to eat more than a dozen servings of broccoli today to get the same amount of nutrition that was available in just one serving of broccoli a hundred years ago. Simply eating an organic whole foods diet is no longer adequate to correct nutritional deficiencies of modern life, due to our current model of farming. Secondarily, many modern foods are refined, highly processed, and contain an unhealthy fatty acid profile. We have become a culture that is overfed and undernourished, subsisting on low fiber, low protein, and nutritionally deficient diets with corresponding disease patterns. The direct result of diverting from a traditional diet has promoted modern chronic disease. Processed and packaged foods, fad diets, excess sugar consumption, broad spectrum nutrient deficiencies, and food intolerance are directly linked to a pantheon of new diseases that had never been seen before in human history. Our disconnection from nature has diverted us into a nutritional famine. With the advent of urbanization and the demand for food crops by city dwellers, commercial rather than subsistence agriculture becomes predominant, more plants are hauled away from the soil, and the soil mineral-loss accelerates. Today, more than 85% of the population lives in cities and requires food from land that they do not tend or care for, and to which they do not return their wastes. The mineral cycle of the land is completely broken. Instead of being returned to the land to remineralize the soil, as would happen on a family subsistence farm, our mineral wastes now go into landfills and sewers.
 
 Minerals is a class of nutrients that has three major roles in the body:
1) Provides structural materials for the bones and other connective tissues.
2) Allow electrical impulses to move along the nerves.
3) Act as catalysts or support the role of enzymes in physiological processes, such as reproduction of the DNA or manufacture of proteins.
 
Catalysts and enzymes promote the transformation of one thing into another. The spark plugs in your car are like catalysts when they allow the transformation of gasoline into energy. Your digestive enzymes promote the transformation of the food you eat into components that can be absorbed in the intestine. This role of the minerals explains the devastating effects that a deficiency of minerals in the body may have on the health. Magnesium is necessary in more than one hundred enzymatic reactions in the body, and zinc is needed for more than two hundred. A deficiency of these two minerals alone can thus result in three hundred different things going wrong in your body. You would be like a car running without all its spark plugs.
 
Some symptoms and illnesses that may be caused by common mineral deficiencies:
Allergies, Anemia, Anxiety, blood vessel damage, brittle nails, confusion, constipation, cramps, delusions, depression, diabetes, dizziness, eczema, fatigue, growth impairment, hair loss, headaches, heart palpitations, high cholesterol, hypothyroidism, immune deficiencies, impotence, insomnia, irritability, periodontal disease, skin lesions, liver impairment, memory impairment, muscle fatigue, muscle spasms, nervousness, night blindness, osteoporosis, periodontal disease, rickets, skin problems, slow wound healing, and tooth decay.
 
With the understanding that the decline of human health began with agriculture, we can connect agricultural progression to the decline of planetary health as well. We are as much a part of nature as the land itself. Grain cultivation, tilling of native habitat to produce farmland, and soil depletion are some of the direct root causes of modern disease. It is with this awareness that simple whole foods recipes become the materia medica of chronic disease transformation.
 
Herbs taken in this context are more powerful than when herbs are taken alone. To correct the roots of health we must adjust what we are made of.